The "world's biggest surf stars" coming to your living room!
It was announced this morning that the documentary Momentum Generation was picked up by HBO Sports and will air across all HBO’s platforms on Dec. 11 of this year. The film follows the career arcs of the surfers made famous in the original Taylor Steele surf film from 2001. Do you ever wonder what happened to the film’s cast of characters? Like, what do you think Ross Williams is doing today or Kelly Slater?
I saw Rob Machado at the grocery store yesterday and he looked happy.
It is, anyhow, a very exciting time to be a surfer, a surf fan or anyone who has ever seen anyone surf. Don’t you think?
I do.
I think the tide is rising, floating all surfboards, even surfboards with the fins screwed in backwards. I think BFB (Backward Fin Beth) jumped surfboard too early.
But now let’s read the Hollywood Reporter:
HBO has acquired television rights for the U.S. and Canada to surf documentary Momentum Generation.
Jeff and Michael Zimbalist are behind the feature, filmed over multiple years, that follows the world’s biggest surfers — Shane Dorian, Taylor Knox, Rob Machado, Pat O’Connell, Kalani Robb, Kelly Slater, Taylor Steele, Benji Weatherley and Ross Williams — as they reflect on the complexity of their brotherhood and competition that has shaped their journeys.
Justine Chiara, Lizzie Friedman, Tina Elmo, and Colby Gottert produced Momentum Generation, which made its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. The Zimbalists produced via their company All Rise Films. Sundance Productions’ Robert Redford and Laura Michalchyshyn served as executive producers, alongside Karen Lauder and Greg Little of Priority Pictures, which financed the project.
Momentum Generation premieres Dec. 11 at 10 p.m. and will be available on all HBO and partners’ streaming platforms. Universal Pictures Home Entertainment Content Group is planning an international digital release on Nov. 5.
Endeavor Content negotiated the deal on behalf of the filmmakers.
Momentum Generation will air on Tuesday, Dec. 11 at 10:00 p.m. on HBO.
Mark your calendars if you too would like to know whatever happened to Kalani Robb.
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Nice iMovie job though missed the Ken Burns fade. Made up for it with shit line breaks but dock points for putting an umlaut in ‘naive’.
Bad Religion, Pennywise, and Offspring at the 2019 Surf Ranch Pro?
Kalani you said? It is sorta jamie o brien downgrade
Chas – your obsession with backward fins tells us all that you should screw your fins in backwards and try and surf the wave pool again – we saw your efforts first time around, you failed to set rail or generate speed – reverse your fins man….it can only help you.you will probably surf better in the ocean as well!!
Benji and Kalani clearly the two biggest losers of that group by far.
Tremendous losers,the best losers.
Is Cardiff Seaside Market North County’s equivalent of the Pupukea Foodland, minus the violently enforced parking norms, plus a bunch of smarmy cunty teenagers staffing the place? Is it a place where you will see surf luminaries, but it’s bad form to approach them for autographs and chit chat as they puzzle over the wall of too-boozy too-malty way-way-way-too-hoppy douchey hipster terrible San Diego microbrews? Why yes, I think it is.
Its a fucking yuppie grocery store now. I won’t be caught dead in that place. More expensive than Whole Paycheck. Cardiff has gone full yuppy so it makes sense.
Yeah it was always a little pricey but definitely more normal back in the day. Anyone remember in the 1990’s when Dwayne Peters worked the butcher counter? Remember when Seaside Market bought a billboard on the 101 featuring Dwayne and all the butchers, toothy leering smiles like Cheshire cats, most robustly goateed, with the tag line “OUR BUTCHERS WOULD LOVE TO MEAT YOU”? And nearly instantly some low-brow genius climbed up there and painted out the M in MEAT. Wonderful act of anti-depressive vandalism.
HBO must have fallen on hard times
Huh. Back when I lived in San Diego for 8 months (shudders at the mere memory) I saw Rob Machado at the grocery store often. Dude loves shopping, I guess.
& thai surfboards.
thai sticks
He’s just high on life. & a whole lot of sweet sweet sticky weed.
Or big man Bob Trimbole Buddha sticks ?
Funnily enough the Australian born little battler has always looked underfed ?
I recall him staring at the butcher section, though I believe he’s a well-known vegetarian. I moved past him and bought an armful of sausages.
Like a Bikers meet , a Surfers no meat meet ?
He’s gotta keep his creepy van stocked with treats for all the kids at Seaside.
Its pretty ironic to watch the creepy van pull up to the $5mil house…fucking dorky if you ask me. Such an act.
Don’t hate. He bought that house (& eventually rebuilt it) long before it was remotely close to the current price.
Yeah man I know the history of the house. My point was that he poses as a pseudo vagabond rasta when he lives in a mansion.
Good to see benji weatherly. I don’t know who he ate,but good no less.
Not one of those guys am I even remotely interested in learning about… actually, I take that back, I might be interested in Pat O’Connell, if only to learn why Hurley insists on still giving out bro-faux-“outreach”/Hurley Surf Club jobs to industry dregs like Simpo and Yadin while also letting a certain former pro “legend” live/shit in the parking lot at company headquarters…
“The film follows the career arcs of the surfers made famous in the original Taylor Steele surf film from 2001.”
The original Momentum was released in 1992, Momentum: Under the Influence was released in 2001.
They’d be showing it next week but all the “producers” have to be at Worldz.
American surfing has certainly lost momentum since ?
So has the pop punk scene.
Momentum’s loss was Lost’s gain ?