Not to be missed.
Tomorrow morning at 11 am Pacific Standard, 2 pm Eastern, ABC will air the entirely compelling Monster Energy Big Wave Sessions in these United States of America. And it is easy to, sometimes, forget there is surfing productions beyond the WSL. Filmmakers, storytellers to use the parlance of WSL CEO Erik Logan, who can weave a narrative out of surfing’s various and sundry strands.
Tales for the masses, yes, as ABC (American Broadcasting Corporation) is network television but tales for us grumpy locals too.
Emmy Award winner Paul Taublieb is one such storyteller and in charge of tomorrow’s program.
Taublieb, co-creator of ESPN’s X-Games, producer and creative director for MotoGP spectacular Fastest narrated by Ewan McGregor (one of my very favorite actors) and aforementioned Emmy Award winner for ESPN’s Hawaiian: The Legend of Eddie Aikau, applies his iconic style to big waves and their surfers.
What will we learn?
Rumor has it that the Big Island’s own Shane Dorian will announce his retirement, Keala Kennelly will speak to her bi-polar diagnosis and Billy Kemper will recount the harrowing Morocco accident wherein he almost perished but this time not long and drawn out into five episodes.
Short and to the point, the way better stories are told.
We will also see Kai Lenny risking life and limb, swimming into the impact zone in order to fetch a loosed tow board just so no one else will be able to learn his dimensional secrets. What’s he hiding?
Find out tomorrow.
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EwMac was my favourite actor for a while too,
Not sure if it was his work in Trainspotting or the footage of him at Mardi Gras in Sydney being interviewed while his pupils were the size of saucers.
Interviewer: “Are you having a good time at Mardi Gras?”
EwMac: *In light Scots brogue. “I’m having a faaantaaasticccc time!”
Interview was a bit short I thought.
I’ve done some insane things in my life, but even that doesn’t qualify me to sit in this discussion. I’ll just watch the waves respectfully….
Is Dorian retiring because of Kelly’s DMs advising him about his foolish and wreckless big-wave pursuits? Endangering himself and others etc?
This sounds horrid
JJ paddling Outer Reef, my favorite big wave story for the year.
15 seconds, short and to the point.
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
in the show
the one he made should 100% have been WOTW
Bald+neckbeard.
The frickin Kemper story is fried, been told too many times already. Yeah, its pretty heavy but, for fucks sake, move on.
They can’t move on. That Kemper story is locked up in The Clink, and it’s been granted visitation rights for all who are willing to unabashedly smash their nipple against the plexiglass.
….ohhh Billy
https://youtu.be/TVtvBoELA-g
Maybe “ohhh Elo” in this case.
Just FYI billy’s story is less than 5 minutes of the hour. Miss the rear at your peril!
Everything is perilous from up here in the cheap seats. Pay no attention to me.
Got a question for you though.
Did you negotiate the broadcast deal with ABC before, or after the deal for “Ultimate Surfer” was inked?
One other question, does ABC look at these broadcasts as a calculated gamble, or a hint of things to come that may improve production quality for WSL Events?
My show is under ESPN’s “World of X Games” series on ABC, nothing to do whatsoever in any fashion with “Ultimate Surfer.”
Okay. But who was first?
Not on ABC up here in the SF Bay Area.
check under “world of x games,” but it is possible pre-empted in some markets. good news is: (RE-AIR ESPN 2 – Sunday, May 30 at 11pm ET). or since you’re part of BG cheap seats, i can send you private link if you miss it.
I’ll see if I can find it, thanks. My friend does Real Snow and Real Moto for World of X-Games.
I sense that this will be yet another production I’ll successfully dodge.
you’ll regret missing it, says the director.