Freesurfing lives.
Clay Marzo is one of the most fun surfers to watch and has been for years. Years and years even. Unique, individual, uncommon, solitary, unexampled… adjectives lose their weight when describing his approach which stands in sharp relief to the sort of surfing being perfected by Championship Tour professionals.
The “freesurf era” if it is proper to call last decade this is long over. It died with the birth of Dane Reynolds‘ beautiful children and, as long as John John Florence dances on tour, will stay dead for the foreseeable future but we always have Clay. Mixing. Matching. Coloring outside the lines.
His latest film project is called Today’s Harvest and seems to be the product of very many surfs around Maui.
“I can’t even keep up with him,” says his pal and fellow Maui ripper Kai Barger. “He’s paddling out in the dark just psyching.”
In the clip, in case you were wondering, he is riding a Super Brand 6’2” x 19 ½” x 2 9/16” Mad Cat model. It is a big board for big boy surfing.
Clay Marzo In Today’s Harvest from Superbrand on Vimeo.
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This bloke at pipeline, would be something else! Whats with the hair combing barrels?
He stayed at my mates house on Kauai and was late for the airport. He had no time to pack up his boards and my friend was the proud new owner of 5 brand new boards. That’s freesurfing boys!!!!
I love a good surfing video with decent hip hop track at the end. And that guy is hella / hella good .
My last sesh in dumping low tide, storm edged with a little offshore surf was similar. It was like that at the beachy section at S****’s. Although it was more like I was a kiddy sponger and Clay was like Kelly Slater at 6th World . . . the break close by home is nowhere close like those warm water gems with dangerous lava beds, rocks and reefs.
Still anything to grant inspiration to surf and love it more is welcome.
Despite the overlooming threat of wavepools kids pulling more moves out of their butts than cigar and cigarettes, I recall that the lyrics of wu tang’s triumph and old dirty bastard’s “This ’97
Aight my niggas and my niggarettes
Let’s do it like this
I’ma rub your ass in the moonshine
Let’s take it back to ’79 “
And realize like how the gold standard of rap was built in those day that videos like this can provide hope in age where future seems bleak for surfing
You saw barrel ollie barrel, next gen snaps to barrels, that one legged thing he does. What he makes when the camera isn’t around probs crazier.
That ollie from barrel to barrel is fucking pricless
ok, ok..but that was a cheap shot by the Krill-ster. I reckon Marzo is a once in a generation genius of surfing. He is, to me, by far the most interesting surfer around today. Doesn’t he fascinate you on every level? Anyway, said my bit..
Agree
Dibbles/Scardy at G-land
Camel in his brief heyday deserves a vote.
Rab’s and Corey no slouches either.
More toobs than a bowl of ravioli.
Cmon KP, give him a wilcard into Chopes PLEASE..
Serious shralping right there.
The dragon fruit must ‘ve been a nice distraction from licking windows.
That is just a cunt of a thing to say, Krill. You apologise! I’m going to get up on my high horse and down vote you.
One should not forget Ford Archbold and crew. They are still thriving in the free surf market. That is if nodding off and day drinking makes checks, which I suppose it does.
Clay’s under-the-lip take-offs look so critical but so relaxed. It makes me sick that I’ll never know that sensation.
While the “freesurf era” may be over, it’s foreseeable that we will see a “freepoolsurf era”. And it will look fucked!
Aw c’mon old dog. Don’t give up hope!
Clay’s probably been surfing that break since he was 10 and could do that in his sleep.
He would have that pool dialed in day.
“freepoolsurf era” hahahaha trademark that classic!!!! – and it will look fucked!!!! Comment of year for me!
Clay comfortably surfs waves others don’t consider being waves. Rocks-a-plenty.