It's called Welcome Elsewhere!
Today is January 12. Is your mouth dry?
Let’s wet it for you.
Today is the day, as if you didn’t remember, that Craig Anderson, who hasn’t been seen his trip to Indonesia in July to prove the worth of his five-four HK’s in 12-foot waves, releases his new edit Welcome Elsewhere.
Anderson, as you also know, turned down somewhere between half-a-mill and a million bucks a year to re-sign for two years with Quiksilver and is deep in brand development with his friend and fellow turned-down-millions-from-Quiksilver pal Dane Reynolds, and this edit, 12 minutes long, is his first as a sole trader.
You’ll love Welcome Elsewhere, as I did, for its exotic vices, for its slow preliminaries that quickly build to savage climaxes.
Read about Welcome Elsewhere and Craig-Dane’s new brand here or crawl into Welcome Elsewhere’s arms, below.
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Everyone should have a good old left hand wedge in their section. Enthralling!
I know there is much talk about them starting a new brand, but what if they just buy into what youth and start making tshirts for what youth?
Okay you turned down the 2 year deal for $500K per year to start your brand. Brand’s take at minimum a year to present at tradeshows, two years to hit retail. Shoulda countered the 2 year deal and ask for a 1 year deal at $250K per year. Cash strapped Quik woulda taken it. Work on your brand on the side, ditch Quik next year, right before Agenda and walk around Agenda with Dane and your new brand (with $250K invested in it). Okaaaaay?
ghostface, you seem to be a fine fellow and know this surfer management business well. do you think you could get me onto a contract for $150K a year from quik? see dell’s photo above for an idea and then subtract 50% ability to arrive at my standard. i believe there is a market i could inspire to buy a new range of surfer neoprene jock strap: saint ballsacks™
I’d do it for 4/5ths commish
it’s so arty farty.
The last song made me want to stab my ears
Wow that Kanduis footage is something else.
So much style, in the water.
Ando, until this morning, might well have been the most stylish man in surfing.
Then, a new day dawned on the east coast of Australia, and this article’s fearless scribe, one Derek Rielly, took to the water in his wife’s nightie and a pair of speedos.
Step aside Craig.
wow, he’s got the shoulders opened.
To be fair I have seen that little pink board throw some heat at Tama.
The little boy inside me wishes it was true!
so now!
fuck Dell, is that really your daily bread?
You need to get off the white loaf and into something more wholesome.
Pitiful, yes…
Quik logos everywhere. Fine job starting your new brand.
Kinda makes sense though, he only just quit Quik a month or two back. Obviously it takes a while to film and edit something like this.
Besides, anyone who backs the new brand will do so because they like his surfing or personality or whatever.
They should’ve blurred out the tip like they do in Japanese porn.
That was well worth the wait. Probably the best stuff I’ve seen from Mr Neville as well as he dialed back the hipster a few notches.
what are you talking about? there’s so much hipster in there he could tie his beard to his pubes.
I didn’t see any fruit on random objects so that’s a step forward in my opinion.
That dickless style annoys the shit out of me- that buckled weak back leg is so impotent at producing any real backfoot power or even holding a rail- but that was no doubt the most muscular androgyny ever captured.
Loved the soundy, loved the edit. That won me over.
I love dickless style! I love androgyny! RIP Bowie!
He dropped some sick turns and he absolutely rips. But sometimes appears to me he cant decide if he should just soul arch to the beach or belt the shit out of it!!
Get your point on the back leg, however Luke Egan had similar back leg style and he threw buckets – maybe Ando needs to hit the gym
Guess why he divides the masses tho
Any fucker who goes to the gym to improve their surfing is straight up a fool.
Just bloody have some fun and get off the WCT-hoopla-meth
he’s not on CT pal talking about his power and style.
A strong core means better surfing so whether you can get that just surfing without additional training is debatable.
yes, yes you can! two to three pints of Guinness a day will do it. guaran-fucking-teed.
“strong core” for surfing. hehe. oh Dora why has thou forsaken us?
did my cruciate years ago – without rebuilding it properly I couldn’t surf to a level I am happy with. and I only worked hard so could still surf and snowboard – pissed everything else off.
More recently chuck some kettlebells around couple times a week at home – it helps big time and reckon surfing better than ever have. so for me it works fucking guaranteed
you could have just eaten chia seeds, you know.
Touche my drunk friend – and gonna go put them in a nutri bullet now too while balancing on a power plate
I sincerely hope you’re going to soak them first Tom
Shit I didn’t soak them but rather mixed them with some Purps – I was wearing Outerknown kit at the time, so thought be all good
That kandui footage is psycho. I’d heard that session downplayed and stories of him pussing it out on shoulder but fuck, he had a real dig. Good on him.
On a damn 5’4″ no less!!!
You could not pay me enough money to surf that inside section. I don’t understand how you get out alive.
I was going to try to write something witty – about Ando being like Samson, cut his hair off and he is nothing special, – but wow can the boy surf. Is he the most stylish surfer ever? I wrote a few weeks ago that it was no wonder that Quik were broke if they were spending half a mil on him, but having watched that, I don’t know! I think we will have to get Ando in a L’oreal ad with his flowing locks and that old catchphrase “because I’m worth it!”
Good moments, weak airs and quite possibly the worst surf soundtrack of all time.
At least it wasn’t 12 minutes of full rotations, yawn.The straight air in the middle was fucking rad, and Ando learned how to do turns! I thought he only did drop-knee highlines and soul-arches. I’m probably going to watch it again.