A dazzling short film that will have you on a plane this weekend…
I’m already counting the days until Chas’s return. Gotta pick up the slack while he’s gone, kind of overwhelming. The internet is voracious, “Feed me feed feed me!” But I’ve only got so much energy, dragging multiple posts a day out of my head is gonna kill me quick.
So… aggregate type nonsense, here we come!
Have you seen 100% ALOHAMADE? Probably. It’s two days old, ancient in online time. But I just got clued in this AM, maybe it slipped under your radar as well?
Sheer ridiculousness, the little grom Eli Hanneman who opens the show. Not fair for a little kid to surf that well. Makes me jealous, kind of hope puberty tears him to shreds. Most likely won’t, just hand him some muscles to compliment his steez.
Is it my imagination, or has Clay Marzo been producing a mind-blowing amount of clips recently? He disappeared there, for a bit. Good to see him back, that type of talent is too good to keep hidden at scary secret Maui reef wedges. The push to get him a wildcard at Fiji is surprising, I thought he didn’t handle that scene too well.
Dusty Payne surfs so good, it’s a shame to see him struggle on tour. Our weird obsession with heat scores results in the squelching of so much talent. Why, oh, why can’t we embrace the skate model and just look for clips?
You’ve probably already seen other angles of most of Slater’s waves months ago, but they’re worth a rewatch. Dear Robert puts on a barrel riding clinic, reminds us he’s still the best surfer in the world, Tour results be damned.
We even catch a quick glimpse of… is that Mitch Coleborn? Looks to be. The man once blew my mind on a windy shit day at Ehukai.
It’s fifteen minutes well spent, will make you wish you lived in Hawaii.
Well, keep dreaming, sucker. We’re full up on haole transplants. I got the last spot.
“Why, oh, why can’t we embrace the skate model and just look for clips?”
We do look for clips.. thats why you guys exist.
The problem with contest surfing vs. contest skating, is in skating they reward newness, and gnarliness. They understand that airs and flip tricks are way fucking harder than turns. So contest skating has progressed light years from what it used to be. The skate kids are pulling lines in contests now that used to be ender parts in videos just 5-10 years ago. Contest surfing today looks damn near identical to contest surfing 20 years ago because they’ve squashed the progression out of surfing by not rewarding newness and progression.
And while we’re on the topic lets compare skate clips to surf clips. 2 things:
1) Can we start editing clips to the music? Change clips to the beat, find parts of the song that match up with slow mo, or someone getting pitched. Land an air on beat, etc. Surf vids are often so lazily thrown together. They often just throw some music over clips, rarely even edit it to the music.
2) Can start getting some sounds in surf flicks? The audio is just music. Rarely do you ever hear the sounds of the ocean. Skate videos almost always leave the sound of the actual clip in with the music. So you hear the cracks in the sidewalk, you hear the pop, you hear the landing. It makes the clip more immersive.
Yeah, no one in surf cares about NBD, unfortunately.
i know it’s more like “just do it again and again and again” …. the judges love it.
What, u wanna hear some douche talking to the filmer on the beach? Coz that’s all yer gonna get. There’s a reason skate clips are so much better: skaters are creatives, surfers are jocks
Wonder how many virgins Allah will grant him?
Loved all the sticker’less surfing. Slater hands forward tube check was beautiful.. Payne’s final wave Kealoha’esque and my vision of proper Honolua. Film opening got my attention.. Little kid can surf, but to much ricochet rabbit is to much ricochet rabbit. I liked seeing his wave in the red jersey for some reason and his round house. Blonde regular footer with quik’logo you don’t surf good enough to disrespect the ocean flying middle fingers. Darker skin regular footer with velvet smooth style, we need more. Clay is a maestro at that left in the end less is more.
Sasha Stocker once told me Coleborn is Australia’s best back hand surfer. weird call.
Who’s the amping bolohead guy ripping Honolua?
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Ha! I guarantee if he paddled out at Honolua he’d get stuffed at least twice.
What’s with the Marzo in Fiji campaign? His free surfing? Brilliant. Put him in the WSL contest box? Tragic. It’s a recipe for disaster (and disappointment) in my mind…
“I’m already counting the days until Chas’s return.” So are we, Rory.
i dont feel that this site needs to post regularly just to post something. ill wait for something good, riot incising, or the next time wardo beats his girlfriend up
Just go grab an Us Weekly, you’ll hardly notice he’s gone.
I’ve settled on Star…