Three-time  international surf champ Corky Carroll answers your questions each week on the Beach Blog. To hit him up, contact him at corkysurf@aol.com.

Q.  Do you remember a guy who went by the nickname “Pink Bod” back in the 60’s?

A.  Why yes I do remember that dude.  Pink Bods real name is Bill Andrews.  He is a San Diego guy but for a couple of years he lived in Dana Point and was the manager of the Gordon and Smith Surfboards shop there.  He is still around too.  Pink was a pretty good surfer and was a member of the Windansea Surf Club back in “the day.”  

Q.  What is a “Quasimoto?”

A.  That was a surf pose invented by Mickey Munoz back in about 1959 or 1960 during filming for the surf movie “Surf Fever” by John Severson.  John sent Mickey out and told him to make up some new tricks.  He sort of did some new versions of the old “head dip” and John gave them names such as the “el myserioso,” the “el telephono” and of course the legendary one arm forward squating “el quasimoto.”  I don’t think Mickey really thought that he would become famous for that at the time, but it is still remembered. 

Q.  Do you think that there should be different areas for the different kinds of surfing equipment these days?  The surfskiis, SUP etc.

A.  Yes.  The bad thing about surfing in 2010 will be that there will be more and more people in the water and more and more equipment other than traditional surfboards.  It has become so crowded as it is that many are just giving it up all together as it is not so much fun anymore with all of the agro attitudes.  The SUPs and everything else that employs the use of an oar or paddle make it very difficult for regular surfers.  They need to have thier own spots and not try to take over the main surf breaks.  Everyone has the right to ride what ever they want to ride.  But to coexist they need to be seperate.   At least that is my opinion.

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