The history of Don Harris
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The history of Don Harris
Please stick to historical facts about the person, or well founded rumors, but no opinions (IE:I think George Greenough is great because he invented the spoon.) This does no good in attaining the history of the person.
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Hmmm... I should type somehting before this gets ugly... :-)
So you want a history lesson or something about a cutback?
Facts:
Caught my first wave at the HB Cliffs (The Gap) July 4th 1976 - US Bicentennial.
I live in Sausalito with my wife Bonnie and our 2 year old daughter Lana.
I've been surfing Ocean Beach as my local for 14 years now and each Fall when it comes back to life I ask myself if I'm REALLY ready.
Lived in Long Beach, HB, Cardiff, Leucadia, Pacific Beach, Carlsbad then moved to Sausalito to chase my heart-throb-now-wife Bonnie. I'm a native Califonian who mairred a southern Bell.
Most significant surf trips:
Australia / Bali in '84. Met David Parkes, Albert Whiteman, surfed Ulu with Bill Lerner, bonded with great people. Came home and surfed Trestles twice a day for 3 months, spent a couple months surfing baja malibu before getting a real job.
New Zealand World Titles in '99. Rag Tag team of Jack Beresford, Bob Schiff, Greg Little, Dave Weinbaum and Barry Baker. I was blown away by the event hosts - Murray Weir, Craig McDonald, and company. The 8 day event was stuffed full of good times, laughs, meeting legends and surfing great waves with just kneelos. Winning the Masters division was icing on the cake.
Mentawai's boat trip in 2000 initiated by Jim Richardson brought together a unique group of wave riders - Mark Robertson, Danny Robertson, Ed Quinn, Eric Osland, Jim Mitchell, Larry Lauman, Morgan (my cousin)...
Queensland, Australia World Titles in '02. A better formed team flying under the American Kneeboard Club with several more guys (can't recall all the names - sorry my memory got soaked on this trip!) Highlights were seeing Albert go to the final, Tom Linn taking home hardware and all the young surfers just ripping! Jamie McHugh organized a house (he's the ambassador) where Mark and I stayed with other Aussies for the week with families.
At the Annual General Meeting, Ken Stapleton asked if the US could host the World Titles in '04/'05... we said yes, but we just weren't quite ready We pushed it to '07.
Reason for starting a community website - KSUSA
After meeting so many people across the globe who have the kneeriding passion, it was clear to me that the internet was a way to tie them together. Sprocky had started a website which gave me a spark of an idea. I put together Kneelo.com which was hard to update and the requests were flowing in. I also thought a newsletter would be a good idea - Kneelo Knews Journal - and I still do, but again a one man content organizer / generator is simply too much work. Bob Schiff mentioned a forum and that started me looking into a tool to give "The Community" the ability to publish their own content. HAH! I can surf more if people post their own content, photos, stories, used boards, gathering dates, etc.
That's the technical journey to KSUSA but more significantly there was also a meeting after one of the first Gatherings at Mark Robertson's house where 12 or more got together, ate, drank, watched Nascar (Bob Welch was ahead of the curve) and talked about formally organizing ourselves.
The confluence of events all came together and KSUSA was born. I built the site, registered about 10 people and sent them a login and password. That was March 9, 2003. Since then YOU have hosted countless gatherings world-wide, YOU have posted the largest archive of photos imaginable 8000+, YOU have traveled to surf with new friends, YOU have hosted 3 US Titles and 1 World Title. YOU have until Nov 15th to register for the 4th US Title event.
KSUSA is guided by an executive committee meeting almost weekly via teleconference - Mark Robertson, Jack Beresofrd, Tom Linn and me.
I have mentioned some names above and by no means is this list complete for those who have inspired, mentored, pushed, pulled and helped to create KSUSA. Please take no offense if I have left someone out.
I'm simply an aging kneelo who races too far in front of the wave and races back to the pocket... something people call a cutback.
Facts:
Caught my first wave at the HB Cliffs (The Gap) July 4th 1976 - US Bicentennial.
I live in Sausalito with my wife Bonnie and our 2 year old daughter Lana.
I've been surfing Ocean Beach as my local for 14 years now and each Fall when it comes back to life I ask myself if I'm REALLY ready.
Lived in Long Beach, HB, Cardiff, Leucadia, Pacific Beach, Carlsbad then moved to Sausalito to chase my heart-throb-now-wife Bonnie. I'm a native Califonian who mairred a southern Bell.
Most significant surf trips:
Australia / Bali in '84. Met David Parkes, Albert Whiteman, surfed Ulu with Bill Lerner, bonded with great people. Came home and surfed Trestles twice a day for 3 months, spent a couple months surfing baja malibu before getting a real job.
New Zealand World Titles in '99. Rag Tag team of Jack Beresford, Bob Schiff, Greg Little, Dave Weinbaum and Barry Baker. I was blown away by the event hosts - Murray Weir, Craig McDonald, and company. The 8 day event was stuffed full of good times, laughs, meeting legends and surfing great waves with just kneelos. Winning the Masters division was icing on the cake.
Mentawai's boat trip in 2000 initiated by Jim Richardson brought together a unique group of wave riders - Mark Robertson, Danny Robertson, Ed Quinn, Eric Osland, Jim Mitchell, Larry Lauman, Morgan (my cousin)...
Queensland, Australia World Titles in '02. A better formed team flying under the American Kneeboard Club with several more guys (can't recall all the names - sorry my memory got soaked on this trip!) Highlights were seeing Albert go to the final, Tom Linn taking home hardware and all the young surfers just ripping! Jamie McHugh organized a house (he's the ambassador) where Mark and I stayed with other Aussies for the week with families.
At the Annual General Meeting, Ken Stapleton asked if the US could host the World Titles in '04/'05... we said yes, but we just weren't quite ready
We pushed it to '07.Reason for starting a community website - KSUSA
After meeting so many people across the globe who have the kneeriding passion, it was clear to me that the internet was a way to tie them together. Sprocky had started a website which gave me a spark of an idea. I put together Kneelo.com which was hard to update and the requests were flowing in. I also thought a newsletter would be a good idea - Kneelo Knews Journal - and I still do, but again a one man content organizer / generator is simply too much work. Bob Schiff mentioned a forum and that started me looking into a tool to give "The Community" the ability to publish their own content. HAH! I can surf more if people post their own content, photos, stories, used boards, gathering dates, etc.
That's the technical journey to KSUSA but more significantly there was also a meeting after one of the first Gatherings at Mark Robertson's house where 12 or more got together, ate, drank, watched Nascar (Bob Welch was ahead of the curve) and talked about formally organizing ourselves.
The confluence of events all came together and KSUSA was born. I built the site, registered about 10 people and sent them a login and password. That was March 9, 2003. Since then YOU have hosted countless gatherings world-wide, YOU have posted the largest archive of photos imaginable 8000+, YOU have traveled to surf with new friends, YOU have hosted 3 US Titles and 1 World Title. YOU have until Nov 15th to register for the 4th US Title event.
KSUSA is guided by an executive committee meeting almost weekly via teleconference - Mark Robertson, Jack Beresofrd, Tom Linn and me.
I have mentioned some names above and by no means is this list complete for those who have inspired, mentored, pushed, pulled and helped to create KSUSA. Please take no offense if I have left someone out.
I'm simply an aging kneelo who races too far in front of the wave and races back to the pocket... something people call a cutback.
Don Harris
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Diamond Dave Kennedy did an interview of Don awhile back:
http://www.sydneykneeboardclub.com/
Go to the 'Down and Dirty,' then you'll see Don's interview
Read the others as well!
http://www.sydneykneeboardclub.com/
Go to the 'Down and Dirty,' then you'll see Don's interview
Read the others as well!
We had to of crossed paths in the line-up sometime while you were in So. Cal. 
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