🎥Bruce Brown Films: "The Endless Summer II" 😎 North Shore Oahu with Mike Stewart "The Endless Summer II" a 1994 film directed by Bruce Brown and is a sequel to his 1966 film The Endless Summer. In The Endless Summer II, surfers Pat O'Connell and Robert "Wingnut" Weaver retrace the steps of Mike Hynson and Robert August. It shows the growth and evolution of the surfing scene since the first film, which presented only classic longboard surfing. O'Connell rides a shortboard, which was developed i

🎥 1965 Bruce Brown Films: Mike Hynson and Robert August the First to surf in Ghana. 🏄 🏄🏻‍♂️The Endless Summer, a 1966 American surf documentary directed, produced, edited, and narrated by Bruce Brown, follows surfers Mike Hynson and Robert August on a global surfing adventure. Despite California's warm Mediterranean climate, cold ocean currents make local beaches unsuitable for winter surfing without modern wetsuits. Their journey takes them to the coasts of Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti, H

The Surfing World has lost an icon. Mike Hynson, best known as the co-star of Bruce’s Brown’s #1 Surf film "The Endless Summer", has passed away at the age of 82, (1/11/25) as the San Diego Union-Tribune reports. Born in Crescent City in 1942, Hynson grew up between Hawaii and San Diego, on account of his U.S. Army soldier father. He quickly began to make a mark on San Diego surf culture, establishing himself as an innovative shaper, gifted surfer, and co-founder of the Windansea Surf Club with

🏄 "Ride the Wild Surf" with Greg Noll, James Mitchum. Fabian, Miki Dora, Mike Hynson, Ricky Grigg, and more... 🎥 "Ride the Wild Surf" is a 1964 American romantic drama, filmed in 1963 and released the following year. Unlike the lighthearted beach party movies of its era, it takes a more serious approach, offering a distinctive Hollywood perspective on surfing. It’s especially notable for its impressive big wave surfing footage—common in surf documentaries but rare in Hollywood films. The sound