Three Kings.
A new, sublime short film dropped yesterday featuring a trio of top athletes sharing their thoughts on life, death, love and friendship all while surfing the famed Waco tank.
Lewis Hamilton, known by some to be the best race car driver in the world, and Dylan Ferrandis, a French motocross superstar, joined big wave champion and new favorite commentator Makua Rothman deep in the heart of Texas for a session and a chat.
Rothman opens up with the truth that a surf trip is as much about the people on it than anything and also noted that when he’s surfing the Waco tank it doesn’t feel “artificial” at all but rather like Uluwatu. Hamilton shares that watching the other two surf kept pushing him to try more, try better, even attempting to figure out how Rothman was throwing neat little spins.
Rothman turns it right around and says nothing he could have done would have made him as happy as seeing Hamilton and Ferrandis come out of the barrel and his coaching, throughout the piece, is truly a highlight.
At the end, Hamilton declares “Surfing is my favorite sport. It really is. I love the ocean and the water, the power the movement, and going out there feels like your disconnected from all the negative things that are going around in the world.”
Truly anti-depressive. Watch, and feel, here.
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I kind of enjoyed makuas WSL commentary recently -more his surfing iq than his ‘up himself ‘ steeze …..his bro Koa projects far more humility
Is the grit starting a wall of positive noise?
Let’s exploit surfing to sell our stupid drink. All we need is a sellout and a couple kooks who no nothing of the sport.
Surfing can bring the world together..,, Maui Wowee
Good on you Lewie for ditching the Mal and progressing down to a shortboard. Already doing better than a lotta other folk. Nice self-invite but no chance Makua’s taking an F1 car for a spin.
Lewis and Surfline Man are at exactly the same standard.
I think they meant 2 kings and a former pro surfer…
No more RVCA
train hard bro, the wozl reparation quota is up for grabs since wiggs’ gone…
Oh boy!
I’ve got an open draft of a piece about this in front of me. Knew I needed to be quicker to the punch!
It’s all about where you are sticking the knife! You could start by stating that Lewis isn’t as good as Jim Clark and question what happened to all the Hawaiian pidgin that we have come to expect from Makua! And who is the third guy?
Put it in anyway.
Uluwaco ?
Yeah right…
Ahhh that was cute. Nothing like seeing millionaires happy.
Most home owners here are millionaires
😊
“Owners” = debt.
I actually watched that, to sum it up in one word–boring.
And surfing is not gonna change the world as Rothman said–it hasn’t changed Fast Eddie–at least not for the better, I think they still have him locked up in a basement somewhere.
Next one in the series going to be a real tear jerker feel good one.
Me, Dirk, Elo and somebody with cognitive disabilities.
You available?
But that video wasn’t about some wannabe giving blowjobs to hang out with nerds!? You call it “tears” now? Laughing
The next one will be a tear jerker. Elo and the pressures of running the WSL and my equal struggles to show compassion and empathy to the slower commentators here like yourself.
Nice comeback.
not in the face it ruins the funeral…
Please bring Currie too! How good would the Sam and JP redemption (sic) storyline be!!
Hahahah
…you be dealing the scores?
Makua surfs better than Koa in small waves.
But does anyone really care.
YOU SAM YOU FUCKING CARE
That’s the happiest I have seen Lewis looking in a long time, he always looks so sullen at the races. Nice to see himself enjoying himself.
Why does everyone talk about him like he’s “wee Lewis fae next door”?
He is a typical Englishman. Whining and whinging, you know the type. Anyways nice to see a smile on his face for once!
Weve got nukes.
Might have to sell them, Jamaica is looking for reparations for their abuses at your ancestor’s blood soaked hands!
We Send all correspondence to the Brixton academy
“Surfing is my favorite sport. It really is. I love the ocean and the water, the power the movement, and going out there feels like your disconnected from all the negative things that are going around in the world.”
But you are in a fucking pool not the ocean. Come to think of it, I have never seen a vid or photo of him surfing in the actual ocean (not that I have looked but…)
Apparently he spent a load of time in Indo with Rizal. For a guy who hasn’t been long at it he is doing pretty good!
He has surfed in the ocean but its hard to see him because he is stuck in the lip most of the time.
I know Lewis and other F1 drivers claim to surf, but Lewis has clearly put in some time. However, I would like to see his skills in the ocean because skills in a wave pool could be misleading.
So non bonery
Super soft
The chick didn’t get wet
Im actually surprised Lewis Hamilton could stand up and go down the face of a wave. Now lets see Makua behind an F1 car.
Nigel Mansell famously couldn’t fit into the 1995 Mclaren, because he was too fat, just saying…