"In a cruel and imperfect world, Dane Reynolds is living proof that God can still create perfection"
The surf world was awoken from its slumber yesterday with the release of Dane Reynolds’ latest short film, ostensibly presented by his clothing brand Former and housed under the lightly popular YouTube channel Chapter 11 TV.
Dane Reynolds, who is forty and known for his intuitive and explosive style of surfing, writes, sardonically the reader presumes,
Come visit the lovely shores of Ventura California where you’ll find friendly surfers eager to share their waves with you. There’s no homeless to steal your wallet and no groms to steal your waves.
Gettin a little hot? Tuck in the shade. Tubes are abundant. Endless good vibes for all. When you’ve got your fill of perfect waves drop by 83 S. Palm st. we’re eco friendly child labor free open 24 hours everything’s always on sale.
See you in paradise!
But it’s not the twitching filmic convulsions which may or may not be viewed as art – I find Dane Reynolds’ work wise and joyous – but the astonishing weight loss, one hundred pounds or more, that has been shed from Reynolds’ famous Dad Bod.
In the film, Dane Reynolds is proof that in a cruel and imperfect world God can still create perfection. Returned, or though never completely lost, is the incomparably destructive Dane Reynolds of under two hundred pounds, his surfing implausibly brilliant and extremely hard to mimic.
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10 years ago I was thinking if Dane just lost 30 lbs he’d again be one of the best in the world. He wasted prime years for beer. At least he figured it out at 40
The legend bringing us a breath of fresh air(s)…
If you asked a large number people who surfed half decent who would they most like to surf like I wonder who would receive the most votes? I am guessing it would be between Dane, Andy or Ethan or maybe thats just cuz thats who I would have to choose between? Well and Fearlip at Chopes and Pipe of course
Adam Virs is my new favorite fat surfer.
Vira vs. Baby Bear
Cheers for posting that cuz I have never actually seen the footage. What’s surprising is that in real life Danes surfing looked even faster and more ferocious than it does in the clip.
Also how much fucking better was the tour back then? I would way rather watch guys like these two and Taj, Mick, Andy and so on than the crew currently on tour except for maybe Ethan. I would include Gabe and Jon but no idea if that are even coming back.
Pump, pump, jump surfing sucks dick
‘Ken Oath. The surfing on tour, whilst objectively ‘great’ now, just lacks the raw nature that Mick, Andy, Joel, Taj, Dane etc. produced, there was just something about the way they surfed and carried themselves.
Not including JJF of course, a true surfing savant and core lord, and Ethan, our rail lord and saviour.
Now we have surfers making vlogs, cringey videos and dance routines.
Where has the core gone?
Classic Dane, the beer loving shredder dad who’s impossible to hate.
Good old Derek. Always able to appreciate the superficial aspects of life.
I would rather watch any Dan Reynolds video than a poo-style Brazilian claiming after one cheesy maneuver.
Creative and stylish power surfing matters.
Used to be fat peeps round deese parts, but an ozempic dealer moved in at Padaro and now the entire mountain is skin and bones, no sweat required
everyone and (especially) their mothers on the OZ , pretty gross actually
next big storm all the seals will get skinny from drinking the sewer runoff
Back to his Former self!
A classic clip. Feels like the old marine layer videos
I am Dane’s personal physician.
O. O.O – ozempic. But seriously – solid effort there if he did it legit🧩
I’m tellin’ ya, keto is fucking brilliant.
Cut the carbs.
I very much enjoyed that cinematic offering.
I’m to believe Dane weighed nearly 300 pounds recently?
Just over!
Zero chance. Did he just randomly say “I lost 100 pounds” somewhere? Is that what this is based on?
hyper you, hyper me, hyperbole
and Kelly is amazingly agile for a 64 yr old , numbers a little loose around these parts
that always felt like an obvious joke, I guess the Dane losing 100 pounds thing is too.
he is fuckin RIPPING in the new clip.
effortless, the bastard.
Haha so good. But the unobtainable aspect hurts a bit. Effortless sums it up.
He’s dropped 45kg? Standing O!
Occy, Jonah, Raimana, Dane… there’s hope for ol’ Gil yet!
No moderation powers were used to work that out btw.
Skilz
Racist, narcissistic, xenophobe POS’s always show their true colors at some point.
He’s called me “a barrel dodging Frenchman ” ! Meh
water off a ducks back a
Apologies about the Frenchman part.
Gosh, that insult est magnifique!