"It's a war."
The Apple TV x World Surf League program Make or Break has been in all of our thoughts and dreams over the last few days what with many antics at the just-wrapped Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach and confirmation that the filmmakers had scaled the patented Wall of Positive Noise, capturing all.
Stephanie Gilmore calls professional surfing a “war.” Dimity Styole (?) calls it the “best job in the world.” Gabriel Medina say, “My job is to win titles. That’s what I’m here for.”
“Here,” it must be assumed from context, is back home in Brazil.
Italo stomps a board, John John Florence gets shoved into an electromagnetic tube, Filipe Toledo.
It drops April 29th but are you ready? Will this first season change everything? Watch. Discuss.
Make or Break — Official Trailer | Apple TV
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I fear very many claims of “Throat Stomping” opponents in this – one of the most non-contact sports evar.
Used to be a sport of rugged individualism.
“Wake and Bake ” ?
I could get on board with that one
I foresee a fruitful televisual collaboration in the works: Make Or Break x Is It Cake?
Contestants watch pro surfing contests and then attempt to discern whether the scores are genuine or a fraudulent icing-enshrouded confection.
haha – nice one!
Are professional surfers personalities that interesting they can anchor a show?
I enjoy the elite fews surfing but find them all as boring as bat shit as people, on par with footballers.
If the wsl could just run a competition properly I’d watch. This reality tv surf stuff I don’t have time for or care for.
Ultimate surfer was a dud and this is the same just less interesting?
Kelly a Wall St. Banker?
Was a typo…meant to be
Ball Street Wanker
so it all ends
Book of Hippy 2:22:2222
Looks promising. Can’t help but think, though, that the WSL, if they were really smart, could’ve created programming around everything Matt George, producing a little bit of something for everybody!:
Bali Belly – a show hosted by Matt of him touring Bali pointing out places to eat.
8 Words or Less – a show about a serious writer who the characters on the show keep telling you is impressive and other people like but has run out of things to say
Living Atlases – a documentary about Matt and his brother Sam as titans holding up the surf industry, which they propelled to heights unseen. Doc goes to great lengths to explain how Sam landed Nia Peeples.
Psuedonym – a show about a fugitive super writer spy who despite being hunted down by a wide array of international adveraries just can’t give up dishing out the truth, having to pursue his passion under a variety of assumed names. Ultimately, over the course of several seasons, the viewer finds out no one has actually been hunting him at all. Matt will star.
Chiaroscuro – a show about a guy on the wrong path who after getting hit in the head in the surf starts seeing a bearded Italian man he thinks looks familiar everywhere he goes. Upon looking through his old school work, he finds a paper he wrote from his one art history class at El Camino College (Jr. College in Torrance) about Caravaggio, who he realizes is the man he’s seeing everywhere. Caravaggio reveals himself to be ordered to help him sort out his life by showing him a bunch of stuff that sounds pretentious (metaphorical contrasting light and dark, composition, blah blah).
Mat Geo Wild.
GOLD!
I was a surfer once and young…why is that joy so horrible now
A wise man once said,
” the most fun you’ll ever have in surfing– is the first time you catch a wave–and then you start wondering who’s the best—and it’s all downhill from there”….
Was the wise man Nick Carroll?
Hey Nick, congrats for buying out S2S nz and upping the price from $60 to $100.
Up yours, cuntee.
Cheers, astro.
Fark, they jacking up the price? Still sub standard camera coverage? It is cheaper than gas but.
… aint Dimity Stoyle, tis Isabella Lucas.
Eye opener, I can see why my wife won’t stand 2 minutes of watching the surf comps.
How’s it a war when they’re just taking it heat by heat!?!?!
I’m not convinced comparing travelling some of the world’s most beautiful countries, surfing incredible waves whilst being paid significant amounts of money, trying your best to ride 2 waves that a few people deem better than the other person you are with, to what our Ukrainian friends have been dealing with for the last month or so…is all that accurate?
Not just ‘First World problems’ but far, far more cosseted and pathetic than that.
Posturing man-children claiming machismo ‘glory’ at the conclusion of a vanity-laden public dance-off. Adoring suck-arses coo at every broken-board tantrum or spilt açai bowl.
The neoprene-clad houri entreat the corporate pimps to take hold and twist the remnants of their thinning hair, to get a good grip so that the grunting piggy-eyes are secure whilst emptying their fetid sacs of advertising gain.
Horrid, end-of-empires stuff. So much disparity in the world.
I don’t even want to watch “the real shit”, I’m with CB on this stuff, do not have the band width leftover at the end of the day, for real!
Kelly looking very Cybernetic organism in shot above…
Looks like Tyler’s misses
Do you have to purchase to view?
Did I really see Gabriel laugh?
Its a side effect from emptying your nutsack regularly.
I thought you hated gambling?
Should this underwhelm, Erik, if you need any more ideas for TV to sell, I have a bunch of ’em. I’m not willing to put in the effort to see any through, but that’s beside the point… even the workplace dramedy with Prodie I’m lightly convinced would work.
Workplace dramedy with Prodie is it!
Yes ! Make it like friends but surf adjacent filled with rich characters that really are flaky as fuck once you get to know them.
Oh wait, job already did that ….
Workplace Proddy it is.
You used to put up some great storyboards – Curb Your Enthusiasm feat. Kelly and Shane
the workplace dramedy with Prodie, Elo and special guests must happen. Get Ricky Gervais to produce it, The Office style
Proper news
Other shithouse surf-themed names it could be called:
– Inside Peek
– Bail Out
– End of the Line
– Barrel or Nah
Barrel or Nah woulda been sweet if the only focus was boyfriend jeans etc.
Episode 3: out at a Vietnamese restaurant, Jon Jon doesn’t know whether to pronounce pho incorrectly and sound like a philistine, or pronounce it correctly and sound like a cunt
It’s like Keev, or Kiev, bet you say
chicken keev, now. And sound like a vag
Pauline will rename it the chicken Big Kev if she is elected PM
straya oi oi oi.
Shake n bake?
Slay to Stay
The worst of all ?
Risk it For the Biscuit.
jorts and shorts. a peek behind the fabric of professional surfers on land and in the water.
The Slater Show
Sneak peek at the artwork for the behind the scenes longboard world tour doco https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Home and A Wave?
Wax on, wax off
Dancing with Sharks, starring Rusty Cudgel.