Great God Pan

The late-'60s back-and-forth between California and Australia in the surfing world resulted in innovations both stylistic and technological. California knee-boarder George Greenough's radical shape departures influenced Aussie shapers like Bob McTavish to drastically shorten their templates
and experiment with vee-shaped bottoms and displacement hulls which surfers like Nat Young and Wayne Lynch rode in an increasingly far-out manner. As editor and photographer for Surf International, Tracks, and Sea Notes magazines, John Witzig (brother of Paul of Evolution fame) documented some of the surfing evolution's most pivotal moments. Check out the fantastic period images recently exhibited at the Dickerson Gallery in Sydney.