Lightning Bolt

27.04.2012

Surfer crouched deep inside a barrelling wave, spray curling overhead, in black and white

Founded by master-wave-whisperer/Conan the Barbarian star, Gerry Lopez, Lightning Bolt have been making surfboards since 1971. It may not be very in-keeping with the less than amazing weather we’ve been having lately, but seeing as we’ve just received a whole beach-shack full of Lightning Bolt stuff, it’s only right to wax up the boards, take a big gulp of sea-water and dip our toes in to the Lightning Bolt archives.

Lightning Bolt advert, It's a Dogs Life, with Rory Russell shirtless among models in polo shirts and visors

Lightning Bolt Born in Hawaii advert headed Ala Moana, a surfer riding a blue wave, with an inset map of Oahu

Lightning Bolt advert headed Magic, with Rory Russell in a white polo holding a surfboard amid purple lightning

Lightning Bolt The Streak of Adventure advert headed the Baja Hots, with snapshots from a surf trip in lower California

Surfer carving a turn on a white board marked with a lightning bolt, one arm raised, in black and white

Someone smiling in a white Lightning Bolt polo shirt and jeans, holding a dark surfboard with a large bolt logo, in sepia

Lightning Bolt advert with Rory Russell and Gerry Lopez in striped polo shirts beside a yellow board with a red bolt

Lightning Bolt A Pure Source advert, a green-bordered collage of surfers, boards and team photos around a Team Bolt logo

Lightning Bolt presents Star Bolt advert, Rory Russell in a white tee beside a pale blue board with a red and yellow bolt

Surfer crouched on a yellow board inside a curling blue wave, shot from the water with droplets on the lens

Three surfers in contest vests on the sand with a yellow board and a red board with a white bolt, a Primo banner behind

Lightning Bolt advert with Mark Richards in a Toucan print shirt and Rory Russell in a Tropical Forest shirt, on a fence

Lightning Bolt advert, Rory Russell of Hawaii sat in pink trousers behind a board with a black and white chequered deck

Still from Conan the Barbarian: cast members in fur, leather and armour standing in a dim timber hall

Gerry Lopez as Subotai in Conan the Barbarian, wearing a fur hat and a fur-trimmed leather tunic

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