“The nicest guy gets thrown around a lot but he actually is one of the most giving friends."
The creator of the beloved Drive-Thru series and former star of Taylor Steele’s Momentum rock-and-cock films, Greg Browning, is in the ring for the fight of his life after being diagnosed with the incurable neurodegenerative disease ALS aka motor-neurone disease aka Lou Gehrig’s disease.
The prognosis depends upon the person, and Browning is fit as a bull and blessed with an optimistic soul, but MND generally leads to increasing muscle weakness, loss of mobility, difficulties in speaking and swallowing, and eventually respiratory failure.
Surf stars, including Shane Dorian and Tati West, as well as his old mentor Taylor Steele have rallied around Browning.
“Hard to put into words how good of a human Greg Browning is,” writes Dorian.
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Medication and therapy can slow ALS and reduce discomfort, but there’s no cure.
My brother and I grew up with Greg in the South Bay (Manhattan and Hermosa Beach, CA). We honed our surfing skills at 16th St, Hermosa Beach with the help of our good friend, Howard Eddy, who would film all of us, every day, twice a day. Not only did Greg out-surf everyone in the South Bay by winning multiple amateur contests, he went on to have a successful career as a nationally recognized free-surfer. He is a member of the Momentum Generation- with Kelly Slater, Rob Machado, Shane Dorian, Ross Williams, The Malloys, and more. He had several segments in the most popular hardcore surf movies of the 90’s.
Throughout Greg’s surfing career, he was always interested in editing surf movies, after learning from Howard Eddy. He released several local underground videotapes featuring my brother and I, along with other local rippers. He worked with Taylor Steele editing and picked it up pretty well, creating the hit series Drive Thru!
Greg is one of the most giving people I have ever met and we would love to give back to him. We would love for him to live a stress-free life and have all of his future medical bills taken care of. Please help us in raising funds for one of the best Humans ever!
Taylor Steele, meanwhile, posted Greg’s section from his film GoodTimes.
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“The nicest guy gets thrown around a lot but he actually is one of the most giving friends,” writes Taylor.
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My first symptoms of ALS occurred in 2014, but were diagnosed in 2016. I had severe symptoms ranging from shortness of breath, balance problems, couldn’t walk without a walker or a power chair, i had difficulty swallowing and fatigue. I was given medications which helped but only for a short burst of time, then I decided to try alternative measures and began on ALS Formula treatment from Tree of Life Health clinic. It has made a tremendous difference for me (Visit w w w. healthcareherbalcentre .com I had improved walking balance, increased appetite, muscle strength, improved eyesight and others. ]
Sorry for Greg but man oh man, there’s unindicted co-conspirator 21/22, Conan Hayes. Someone needs to make a movie about that guy’s life. Making the world tour, critical member of Momentum (curiously omitted almost entirely from the HBO doc), founding and selling RVCA, short sale fraudster, former Mr. Malia Jones, and now election steal stopper releasing the Kraken with Supreme Leader.
What will he do next?
Write to his mates from gaol requesting a box of soap on a rope?
so sad. he is an exemplary of the hundreds of characters that grew up there, and with his attitude of stark humor, zest for sharing life and surf adventures, contributed to both the local scene and a worldwide audience…in an honest, honorable, & admirable way.
Good looking rooster, hope he fucked all the walks of life he was interested in! A side note, how much has surfing regressed!
Xox
Sucks and good luck to Greg.
Hopefully this gets some focus and momentum and all for one can sling him some loose change, because the show and good times must continue before we all shelter in our castles in the sky.
Too soon? Sorry, I’ll see myself out (and back to the drive thru for a hit & run).
LOL
Seaside yourself out and beyond
Getting older…more of this to come, from all over. Speaking of, how about a GoFundMe for Taylor Steele to go back through all his old videos and remove the shit music.
If you watched them enough times when you were young, it became good music! Not the Pennywise, though.
Mute button. Turned up Santana’s Caravnaserai album, and Neil Young’s Cortez the Killer, and some Burning Spear. Problem was solved.
Cortez the Killer, to that surfing? Hope you had it on slo-mo
Nah, just different visions of what the ocean and surfing means to me, than most of my peers, esp at that time.
https://www.surfer.com/vide…
Tom Jenno vid with Cortez the Killer
Reminds me of drunk 14 year old Boys.
Don’t get Bexy excited.
Hawt xox
They’d be lighting farts too
Haha, if they keep up practicing they may reach my lofty heights xox
That Surfing cover is sick. Good luck, Greg. MND is gnar.
That is absolutely terrible. Aging sucks!
Fuck, MND is just the fucking worst. Seen it in action and it’s evil.
Yeah, always fatal, just depends on how lucky you are (or aren’t) as to how much suffering you have to endure. Lost a relative to it.