Nice MP's is better imo

TC is the best imo, so much style

I'll go out on a limb, up there for best cutie I reckon is Taylor Knox, just plants his feet and drives through it.

But theat curren shot is awesome. No stickers either.. Think that was what cost him his ripcurl sponsor?

And Mp well, it's on a single fin to, just awesome..



Edit read this looking for a photo, good little summary



The difference?
When MP carved his, surfers were just starting to wrap their cutbacks with the rail in the water (as opposed to a pivot drop knee type cutback on a log) So MP's cutty was radical, new and ultra progressive. The frame grab image of it shown in the post above is iconic, timeless and indicative of a whole era, hell, a whole lifestyle.
The TC Servis cutty is stunningly beautiful. I have the poster mounted and I'm looking at it right now, BUT how many surfers could do that same cutty, time and time again, at the time the photo was taken? Don't get me wrong, TC's style & flair were unmatched at the time BUT it's a beautifully captured image on a crisp North Shore day NOT a game changing, everlasting slash.
The wonderful thing that I had not even thought of until this thread is the eerie similarity of TC's stance, style and hand jive. He had obviously studied that one frame grab from Alby Falzon's "Morning of the Earth" as I (and tens of thousands of other surfers) have over the last 39 years.
Long live long line holding wrap cuttys!!!

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Without hitting up Google, the MP Cuttie is 1 single frame from footage by either Dick Hoole or Jack McCoy. I think they were shooting in 16mm celluloid, or maybe 8mm.

Even though we are mostly Aussies on here, I can't think of a single image in world wide surfing that would be more legendary.

Dicky Cram had the grouse roundhouse cutty going IMO.
He used to surf at my local in the 80's.
He was certainly "burning down the house".
Him and Kong are still my favs.

CMC said...

You know that is the iconic image of MP as it come from MOTE but IMHO this one is better of him: I'd love to see it in better quality. Look at where he has come from. The MOTE cutty is really a hack, this one is a carve and you can see the speed.

All things considered the MOTE cutty is the best though.

i just love that photo

intersting...except for Richard Crams....they are all single fins..Taylor's I know is a bonzer,but it still has a deep single fin in the centre....I'm off to shape myself a single if I can get a cutty a tenth as good I am sure it will feel good.

Simondo said...
We lived at Melrose, 28 Pacific Street, Manly, and surfed Right Out The Front. His cuttie was actually a Pacific Street Cuttie, not Nth Steyne.

(check the old house out when in Manly... fun days, fun house!)

I would have been able to throw beer cans at your place from my balcony on Malvern Ave.....