Big-wave awards roast: Watch Jamie O’Brien
and Kaipo Guerrero give hell to Big-Wave Award winners: “(Keala’s
wave) was a scorpion tomahawking down the face!”
By Derek Rielly
Good-ish times at JOB's Pipe house…
Want a little background noise, the chatter of two
likeable North Shore habitués, various clips of Jaws and
Nazaré and cameos from gorgeous Kai Lenny and the
world’s second openly gay
surfing world champion among others?
The video, below, is hosted by Jamie O’Brien, who is 190
pounds of rock hard muscle with 40 pounds of sturdy
protective fat and who says “A big gut helps you breathe bigger and
better” and ultra-handsome Kaipo Guerrero who, in the words of
Mason Ho “macked Madonna” in 1985.
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Wall ride!
Watch: Mason Ho jiggles his thumb tips
against Palm Spring Surf Club’s pygmy dingus!
By Derek Rielly
Wall rides, fin-first tubing etc.
This short film, starring Mason Ho and Coco Ho, is
extremely confusing, wall-rides, fins-first tube riding, but you
quickly learn to ignore the details and just watch the
glam cast have fun.
“Mason Ho is a saviour from the fucking corporate,
straight-laced, uptight, fucking, pre-planned-interview-answer
surfing world we live in today,” says anti-commie shaper Matt
Biolos. “He’s everything that people think surfing is, and should
be, when you think of all the beautiful stereotypes, like from the
fucking Beach Boys to fricken’ Sean Penn to Big Wednesday.
Mason is fucking incredibly fun to watch surf two-foot junk and
12-foot Pipeline. He’s what everyone’s selling, without trying.
He’s the most real guy out there. We’re fortunate to have him in
our lives.”
A movie that engrosses, hypnotizes and clings to the memory long
after the final frame
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Soli Bailey lays out some booze to cushion his
jet lag.
Watch “Junoesque” Solomon Storm Bailey in
“I despise the hypocrisy of my immoral peers who parade like Gods
of Olympus!”
By Derek Rielly
Gobble meticulously prepared bait…
I’m a sucker for believable, beautifully made, and
paralyzingly suspenseful epics about brave people in the middle of
the ocean battling overwhelming odds against nature to stay
alive, but rarely have I seen one that can hold an
audience hostage like Soli… Every element is so perfect that it
left me shaking and devastated.
And, it’s a love story, too.
Writes the filmer Morgan Maasen,
“(Ten years ago), I was immediately struck by the incredible
demeanour of the teenager. Polite, quiet, but so fiercely
determined to make his mark, Soli was rising through the junior
ranks and dreaming of make the World Tour. As time went on, we
crossed paths countless times in random, far-flung places… but this
last year i was bestowed both the pleasure of travel with him to
Indonesia to score perfect waves, and to watch his inaugural year
competing on the tour. The highs of his performances in incredible
surf, and lows of watching him struggle with the complexities – and
literal luck – that comes with being a professional surfer, was
nothing short of amazing, and as I release this short film, I
cannot express how proud I am of this human’s fruition into a young
adult.”
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Uncle Dez, a man with a big rep. Rory
Pringle
Watch: Mason Ho’s tribute to his Uncle
Derek, “He was a scientist of fun! Rest in peace, power and
love!”
By Derek Rielly
"He was blown out of the barrel more than most will
know."
Two weeks ago, the great Derek Ho, brother to Michael,
uncle to Mason and Coco, four-time Triple Crown winner, two-time
Pipe Master and Hawaii’s first-ever men’s world champ
(1993) died, aged fifty-five.
In this twelve-miinte short from Mason Ho and Rory Pringle, we
get what Mason describes as a “tiny glimpse into UNCLE D’s final 5
years. All clips were filmed in the last 5 years. You can see he
was living life to the fullest till the very end! This man was/is
an INCREDIBLE Father, Brother, Uncle, Husband & Friend. Always
inspiring people around him and BLOWING MINDS in the water or on
land. The first ever Hawaiian World Champion. A scientist of FUN!
100% one of the Kings of Pipeline and was blown out of the barrel
more than most will know. We will forever carry on your energy and
passion for life and surfing.”
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Jackie Doz frisbees; Uncle Kelly
watches.
Watch: Pool shark Kelly Slater vs teen
prodigies Jackson Dorian and Erin Brooks at Waco tank!
By Derek Rielly
The Champ vs the Kids…
Here’s a real interesting drone study of three surfers,
one an eleven-time world champion of forty-eight orbits, and a
couple of Hawaiian kids, both just thirteen, all given the
same high-ass ramps to riff on at Waco’s American Wave Machines
tank.
We see the immortal, Kelly, steel cable legs and heavy
shoulders, sleek muscles undulating under his inky skin, peppering
the wave with jabs and hooks while little Jackie Doz and Erin
Brooks hit the ramp with matador finesse, flying through the air
like frisbees.
Kelly, as revealed
here, spent two days at the Texas pool with Shane and
Jackson Dorian, and with cameos from various up-and-comers.