Dane Reynolds grooms baby into high-level pro surfer; watch progression here: “This episode is comprised mostly of Micky wrecking waves and occasionally himself around town!”

Derek Rielly

By Derek Rielly

Total flabbergast.

(Editor’s note: Dane Reynolds and Mini Blanchard’s website Chapter 11 TV is an irregular collection of short surfing films shot around Ventura that will stoke any crotch fire. Here, Reynolds’ profiles his little buddy, Micky Clarke, who surfs with all the heady drama of a rain storm. Reynolds’ heart-felt paeans to his subjects are equally irresistible.)

Rain or shine my brother would always walk from his van to the water’s edge with his wetsuit halfway down. I never knew if it was vanity or just to catch some extra rays, but when the session was over he’d rip his wetsuit back down in knee deep water and expose his upper half for the return trip.

Last year I was surfing with Micky (Clarke) and (Super Jew) Eithan (Osborne) at our local break when we saw the familiar sight of Brek walking out on the jetty with his top down. Wave count’s about to go down! We scramble to catch a couple extra waves before he gets that wetsuit all the way up and his leash on.

He jumps off the rocks and paddles up in a blue and green Quiksilver suit.

“How’s that thing fit?” asks a nearly 21-year-old Micky

“Good!” says Brek.

After he takes the first wave that comes in I ask Micky, “You hooked up Brek with a suit?”

“Yeah he showed up at my house with an 18 Pack of Modelo’s and asked if I wanted to trade for a wetsuit!”

Brek was the ultimate at recognizing opportunities to swoop free equipment.

An example situation-

I’d be changing out of my wetsuit and he’d walk up… “how were the waves?” “Kinda fun!” “Shit I wanna surf but I don’t really have a board I like… What did you ride?” “This one, it’s kinda sick, I bet you’d like it” “Really?” “Shit… ya you should try it!”

I’d never see that board again.

I asked Micky if he was tripping that Brek showed up at his house and wanted to trade an 18 pack of beer for a wetsuit… “I was kinda trippin… but I was kinda stoked!”

This episode is comprised mostly of Micky wrecking waves and occasionally himself around town the past few months.

Let’s meet Micky Clarke…

CH | 11 | TV | 006 from CHAPTER 11 TV on Vimeo.

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Mason, on ninety inches of Biolos.

Outrageous: Watch Mason Ho in “You know my reputation. Ninety inches of tough load, I don’t treat you gently!”

Derek Rielly

By Derek Rielly

Sensitive but resilient, equally available during the day or night with a minimum of coaxing…

In this short from the studio of Riordan Pringle, we see his master, the thirty-two-year-old Mason Ho, riding a ninety-inch surfboard, a full twenty-four inches longer than his usual runabout.

You keep rubbing that stick, as they say, and you’re gonna get a lot more than a spark.

Essential viewing.

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Ageless! @sensitiveseashellcollector

Watch: Kelly Slater give hell to east Sunset on Mason Ho’s tiny Matt Biolos-shaped Rad Ripper and a Greg Webber 5’8”!

Derek Rielly

By Derek Rielly

Swing with Mason and Kelly!

In this twelve-minute short from the studio of Riordan Pringle, the viewer is gifted a balcony view of Kelly Slater, and Mason Ho, exchanging surfboards and manipulating waves, one after the other, at a chip-shot reef east of Sunset Beach.

Mason, we can never get enough of, brave, charming, witty, exciting to look at and a really good surfer.

Kelly, of course, sometimes appears as empty as the emptiest bottle, and as lonely as a radio tube when the batteries are dead and there’s no current to plug into. Such is fame etc.

An easy watch.

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Ain't she a peach! @surflakes

Miracle in Yeppoon: Surf Lakes begins approval process to open wavepool prototype to public; Town Mayor says, “It will put us on the international map!”

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By Derek Rielly

Very exciting news!

After two years of testing, and at one point rebuilding after the wave-creating mechanism’s giant plunger blew apart, the world’s most picturesque wavepool is set to open to the public.

“The most common question we get online when we’re posting material is when will it open to the public,” Surf Lakes media director Wayne Dart told the ABC. “The current scenario with COVID-19 is not allowing surfers to travel to overseas destinations, so it’s a fantastic opportunity for us to put forward to see if we can open it to the public.”

Dart reckons the joint will able to fit two hundred surfers over the five different waves, gobbling up thirty-three waves every minute.

Livingstone Shire Mayor Andy Ireland says he’s been in “high-level talks” with Surf Lakes and says it’d be “huge” for Central Queensland if it opens.

“It puts us not only on the national map, but the international map as well as far as sports and surfing goes. We would get both national visitation, but also once the borders are open we would have international flights, we’d get people from overseas coming to use this facility.”

Exciting news etc.

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Goyim Reynolds on scissors; Super Jew Eithan in chair.

Oy Vey: Watch Israeli Olympian Eithan Osborne (with cameo from goyim Dane Reynolds) in “The happiest Jew in Ventura!”

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By Derek Rielly

Essential-ish viewing.

Ventura surfer Eithan Osborne is twenty and his mammy is a “French-speaking Jewish humanitarian” with a Motorhead sticker on the back of her Volvo stationwagon.

Eclectic!

Eithan is a Hebrew name which you pronounce A-ton. He was courted by the head of the Israeli ISA when he won a WQS event there and soon he was on the Israeli team for the Tokyo Olympic Games.

This movie The Happiest Jew in Ventura is almost twenty minutes long, also features Dane Reynolds and Micky Clarke and was shot on Kodak 16mm film by clever Andrew Schoener.

And click here for The Happiest Jew in Ventura e–zine! 

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Jon Pyzel and Matt Biolos by @theneedforshutterspeed/Step Bros
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