If Dane Reynolds is fat, I don’t want to be thin

The man from Ventura is changing surfing again.

SURFING MOROCCO from gudiferrer on Vimeo.

This little clip, as seen on Stab, is gorgeous and it is lush. Filmer Ayoub Abouizza and editor Gudi Ferrer do a great job of making me want to surf. Moreover, Dane Reynolds makes me want to surf. He doesn’t appear much, but when he does it is all clean lines with exceptional speed and razor certainty. It is beautiful.

I never really got in to “power surfing” because I didn’t care about Tay Knox. He was too “American” for my taste and by “American” I mean dull and provincial. And I’m sure the sort of action featured in this clip gets categorized in the “power” camp but, to me, Dane is doing something different. He is, single-handedly, bringing surfing back from the air to the wave. He is digging his rail deep and he is throwing tons of water. But it seems more dance-like than anything Taylor Knox did. It doesn’t have the grunty grimace of each of Cap’t America’s arcs. It is how I aspire to surf.

How do you aspire to surf? Should we all put on a few more pounds/kilos?

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James B
James B
11 years ago

Man, that fat whale rips!!

James B
James B
11 years ago

C´mon, the fat whale is a pretty talented surfer.

Seaman Staines
Seaman Staines
11 years ago

A bit of a hidden gem about the WSL, worth a read: http://www.thefreeridevoice…

Ari_Ola
Ari_Ola
11 years ago
Reply to  Seaman Staines

crazy to see the old 2.0 crew promoting steve shearer’s site huh stainesey?

Seaman Staines
Seaman Staines
11 years ago
Reply to  Ari_Ola

It’s too good to be hidden away from the masses! Viva 2.0!

Seaman Staines
Seaman Staines
11 years ago

Be an interest research topic to see who was the fattest man to win a contest, the average punter can aspire to these sort of records. I’ve recently dropped 10kgs and gotta say the board feels a bit more lively.

NEGATRON
NEGATRON
11 years ago

The older/fatter I get, the less my fins appear above the lip. So one must claim to be more power based to save face.

Ari_Ola
Ari_Ola
11 years ago

what was that nonsense about not being a surf film aggregate site again?

NEGATRON
NEGATRON
11 years ago
Reply to  Ari_Ola

Sacrifices of integrity will be made to gain inroads into surf pop-culture.

thebitchycrab
thebitchycrab
11 years ago
Reply to  Ari_Ola

…we figured, if y’going to buy milk and bread somewhere anyway, y’might as well get it here. We’ll dress it up real nice.

Ari_Ola
Ari_Ola
11 years ago
Reply to  thebitchycrab

well if it works for stab…


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