Artist and madman Mason Ho risks his slender limbs in front of 300 foot-high cliffs…
Life is short. It is also pointless, absurd, sad and, for quite a lot of it, plain wonderful. Twenty five short steps from being spat out of mammy to the dirt being shovelled onto your casket.
Therefore, when the noted shaper Matt Biolos suggested BeachGrit might want to join him at the Uluwatu Surf Villas during a shaping stint there recently, refusal, I believe, would’ve been the mark of someone who didn’t comprehend the brevity of existence. Words without experience are meaningless, as they say.
One highlight of the vay-cay was the showing of episode one of License to Chill. It’s a weekly series, filmed over the last two years, of Mason Ho and pals (mostly Cheeseburger, but also including Tom Curren and the rest of the Ho family) surfing around the world. Every Monday, for eight weeks, Licence to Chill appears on Surfline, with other outlets 48 hours behind.
I knew the series was coming ’cause BeachGrit was in talks to get exclusive first-run rights but we lost to Surfline, as was obvious, and as we must.
The first episode is notable for a few things: Keoni “Cheeseburger” Nozaki’s natural comedy routines (watch for his pre-surf warm-up!), Tom Curren surfing Uluwatu on a bodyboard and Tom and his son Pat’s outro jam.
But, the highlight, of this 17-minute edit, is Mason, this artist, this madman, surfing the ledge around the corner from Temples at Uluwatu, GoPro in his mouth, and playing chicken with the 300-foot high cliffs. Oh, you little deadly demon!
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just watching my first heat of Rio.
they have to be fucking kidding, right?
Burger looks like he’s riding switch, it’s just never going to look quite right.
What would be fantastic would be to helicopter Mason into some of those shitty, backwashy closeouts at Rio and then make him ride a 90’s gun where cross-stepping whilst cross-dressing is the only legit thing you claim.
roller boogie boy
just start telling everyone it will be 3′ to 4′ every weekend and you can get those eyeballs too
That but where he’s fucking with the rocks is insane. Cheeseburger looks unbearable though.
probably thought he was way deep until they went to all the footage later that night
They all look like they’re on drugs but Cheese Burger is the one who really needs drugs. They say most animals have an approximate average amount of heart beats in a life time and I reckon he’s using his up at about the same rate as a Guinea Pig.
can’t wait for more. presumably this is the same cheeseburger who choked out the floridian kid in “welcome to paradise, now go to hell”
p.s. make sure you mention to biolos that the entire beach grit commentariat called him out on his “pro board is everything” bullshit
Not the entirety! I agree with him.
granted…but saying the entirety makes for much better dramatic effect
I respect that point.
I liked watching Tom Curren looking pretty baked banging on a tray on his head.
check his Instagram for more in that vein
more curren. that was more of his edit than anyones and i loved every second of it.