Electronic musician Harley Streton installs himself at Slater's world-famous tank!
Don’t you love the randomness of visitors to the Kelly Slater-WSL wave tank in Lemoore, California, the sight of which is enough to give an adult an attack of dizziness?
Recently, the Australian electronic musician, Harley Streton aka Flume, was invited to install himself at the fabled wave. And Streton, who is twenty five and grew up on Sydney’s northern beaches, isn’t the kook you’d imagine.
His main game is bodyboarding, sure, an el-rollo to the flats confirms his pleasures there, but Streton’s ride on a surfboard tells much to the observant eye.
First, it doesn’t appear difficult at all to detect where the milk is watered and the sugar is scattered. In other words, it’s a pool that ain’t that hard to ride. A little back foot pressure here and there, or a cut-down if you’re so equipped, will keep you in the pocket.
Also appearing in this four-minute short is the iridescent Stephanie Gilmore, whose appearance awakens a perverse alertness.
Is your interest in the musician piqued? Listen to Flume here.
Commented on Disqus? Log out, tap the Disqus button, and your old name and comments come back. The box is ours.
Your comments are still here. Every one of them.
Twelve years of BeachGrit comments came across from Disqus. Connect and we will show you how many are yours. We get your username, nothing else.
Connect Disqus to reveal.
Good point–a little back foot pressure–no brainer. No thinking ahead for the next section–or the up coming reef–or what the wave might do next. Seems like it might get kind of boring after awhile…
Dudes–there’s a whole lot more to the surfing experience than just riding a wave–I wouldn’t surf it just on principal.. stoked to be able to paddle out in the real thing…
I’ve seen the footage of several former Wave Warrior guys turned industry heads at the pool…each of them falling on takeoff or letting the wave pass them by on takeoff. Then they adjusted foil and killed it.
No, my interest is not piqued.
Lost my time and hate you for it. Or hate me. Not sure …
The slow drip marketing of kwp just keeps getting better,
Its interesting that Kelly had emphasized the importance of the bottom contour and while important in its own right, the video suggests that the secret rests with the foil and various configurations associated with the plow foil. The vertical angle of the plow foil, lateral angle of the plow foil, speed of the plow foil along the track, likely existence of multiple tracks supporting intended wave amplification results. Kelly’s wave pool ain’t hard to ride when they have engineered a balance between a constant bottom contour configuration and a plow foil system engineered to be capable of various configurations.
Steph’s wave don’t remotely resemble the Flumester’s NLand bastard child
Do you ever think that you could live someone else’s life much better than they do?
All the time mate.
Majority of pro footballers and most athletes, any deadshit trust fund muppet, and any of the surfbrand founders!!!
It’s upsetting to see a dork like Flume doing things I’ll never do and probably fucking more women too. I would give my family to ISIS to surf that wave pool so I try not to think about it often. It’s like how I tell myself I don’t like Ferrari’s cos I can only afford Camry’s. Or how I go to bed with my girlfriend when that Em Rata bird shakes her titties out there somewhere. I hope you get to slap those titties one day, Tom.
How did you go with the boat by the way and the girlfriend? Has she tried sunbaking on the bow yet??
must say my missus has better titties than em rata though so pretty happy on that front.
Don’t worry mate working on way to get a pool – you’ll be invited and by that time will be better than Kellys anyway
Mate, they must be some exceptional breasts. Well done, that’s truly amazing. The boat is good. It’s quick enough for me to fuck around on looking for bloody illusive Great Whites to think about clubbing. I got a 200 on it instead of the stock 175. Nothing crazy. She has stood on it while it is on the trailer in the drive way. That’s the extent of her experience thus far. She has got a bit of Greek in her though so I suspect she will be diving off in the middle of the bay trying to find mussels with gumboots on by the time summer kicks in. In fairness, the weather has been completely shit down here on the weekends so I understand her lack of enthusiasm.
Haha and guess if she pisses you off can leave her in the bay as well!!
Am frothing for some waves my way we just had few days then dead flat for whole this month really.
Need that wave pool – my idea is a brewery and wave pool for any vineyard region ( copyright that one!!) you would make a fortune on either idea I reckon.
Working on some things to make it happen hopefully – let you know once I do because gunna be in Melb a bit I think.
By way Flume only living through one fucking song anyway – Sleepless
That’s all it takes
That’s what porn is for.
Smart move Mr Streton. I bet either Kelly or the WSL wants to use one for his tracks for some upcoming promo and part of the contractual agreement was a nice sum of money & a day surfing the ranch.