Three-time international surf champ Corky Carroll answers your questions each week on the Beach Blog. To hit him up, email him at corkysurf@aol.com. Here’s what he wrote about this week:
Q.  Have you ever written a column about your favorite surf spots?  I would be interested in know what you favorites are here in California.
 A.  My top choices off the top of my head today:  Rincon, near Santa Barbara.  Cotton’s Point in San Clemente.  Swamis in Encinitas.  And Blacks Beach in San Diego.
Q.  My dad left me a surfboard that is from the 1920’s or 30’s.  I have heard it is worth a lot of money.  Would you know anything about it?
A.  Well yes, it would be worth considerable if it is in decent condition.  There were not many people making boards way back then.  I would think that it is probably more 30’s or 40’s vintage.  Take it to the Surfing Heritage Museum in San Clemente and they will be able to document the history of your board and probably be able to give you a reasonable guess as to how much you could receive at auction or from a collector.

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.

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

Q.  I surf with some moms at Bolsa. I’ve surfed at HB for the last 10 years, but the last few days there have been these freaky things in the water…. look like little green pieces of seaweed, but they swim really fast and bite and attach to your legs while you’re sitting on your board. And it’s hard to get them off!! Yikes! some land on their back on your board and they have a ton of little wiggly legs!  What the heck are these things?!

A.  Aliens from the undersea planet of Moo, obviously.  I would stay clear of those little buggers.  So, what I want to know is where you get your morning coffee, I wanna get some of that stuff.   O.K., I am just kidding of course.  Actually I have not encountered those things yet so I am not sure what they are.  But if any of you reading this know anything about them please email me asap so I can get the word out.  Corkysurf@aol.com

Q.  Where you really the stunt double for “the Joker” in the original Batman movie? 

A.  No, he was the movie double for me.   Actually that myth came from somebody at the Surfing Museum in Huntington Beach when they put my old Batboard on display.  The board was made right after the Batman Television series came out in the mid 1960’s.  I rode it in the finals of the 1966 World Championships in San Diego and then retired it.  The only doubling I did was as a “voice model” for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.   Cowabunga.

Q.  Are there still south swells on Oahu in October?

A.  Yep.  That is actually a nice time to go to the Islands.  You can catch both late season south swells on the south side and also early season west swells on the North Shore and West Shore.  Weekdays are good, all the agro brats are back in school.  Good choice.