Oy vey: Ventura’s happiest Jew Eithan Osborne releases long-form surf film for Hanukkah!

And made by King of the Goys Dane Reynolds!

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

Although not strictly observant, the family celebrates Shabbat every Friday and Hanukkah once a year. 

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 in 2019 and soon he was on the Israeli national team. 

Eithan holds three passports, US, French and Israeli.

Eithan’s new movie has just been released by his master, King of the Goys, Dane Reynolds. 

He explains:

Matt and I were driving south from San Francisco when he said out of nowhere ‘Eithans kinda like a… Skinny Meat Head.’ And not only was it funny it was a brilliant description. Eithan’s got a lot of angst and muscle packed in that tiny little frame. Erratic and un-calculated he’s full throttle at all times. It pours into his surfing. Gritty aggression always on the edge of going off the rails but sticking it more often than not.

We followed Eithan around the globe to document surf trips and the challenge of balancing free surfing with the ups and downs of trying to achieve his dream of qualifying for the WSL Championship tour.

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Florence brothers pioneer use of “push-ins” to surf wave too heavy to paddle!

"It worked so well we were tripping! Might try on a tow day at Chopes next?”

In the latest vlog instalment from Nathan Florence, which includes Olympian John John and slinky baby bro Ivan aka Crazy Bob, the trio visit a republic where the soil is loamy and the people are currently embroiled in a wild dispute over open borders.

Hint: it ain’t the USA.

What is billed as a super heat between the brothers, two-time surfer of the year vs three-time world champ vs underground Pipe shredder, all following Nietzsche’s maxim that the secret to existence is to live dangerously, becomes even more thrilling when the sharp-eyed viewer is gifted the sight of Nathan pushing Ivan onto waves.

“This session the tide started to make the drops extremely difficult and we wanted to try some of the bigger ones so we started pushing each other in,” writes Nathan Florence. “Literally it worked so well we were tripping! Might try on a tow day at chopes next?”

You tried?

At least you tried beyond pushing your kid into waves when he was six?

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Watch Mason Ho’s first-ever session at eight-to-ten-foot Teahupoo!

And on a borrowed old board! Like, yike!

How many surfers can you stand watching, like, really, real talk etc? I’ll take Noa Deane, Dane Reynolds, John John, Nathan if he being crazy, Griffin Colapinto, Yago Dora and Mason Ho.

Surfers who are going to surprise, who always carry a little something in their purses. Surfing that defies the very definition of the word order. Lube and pussy juice shining in the key light.

In this collection of raw footage compiled by super director Nick Pollet, creator of the Greatest Surf Movie of the Universe with its wildly gratuitous violence, scenes of decapitation, and cocks galore, we find Mason Ho, almost forty now but only twenty-eight when this was shot, getting his first taste of Teahupoo.

The waves are six-to-eight feet and Mason plays with Teahupoo’s withered ol titties and eats its honeybun like it’s nothing.

Mason Ho is the son of Michael Ho, “one of the world’s best tuberiders in the mid- and late ’70s (he helped invent the “pigdog” tuberiding technique)”.

If you want to see sixty-seven-year-old Michael Ho at his indestructible best click here. First wave, hands behind the back set at Backdoor cut to Black Magic Women, Santana. Epic.

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Brothers Ivan and Nathan Florence set internet on fire with “eerie” big wave session in unnamed country!

The sort of waves that make something nasty well-up in your throat!

The two younger Florence brothers, Nathan and Ivan, have stuffed their burned-out rods into another battery of big waves, this time at unnamed reefs in an unnamed country that has left the internet sizzling.

Watch as Waterman of the Year Nathan Florence enters waves at such an angle he comes down vertically with acceleration produced by sheer gravity, the wave hissing and whizzing all around. The moments are captured on land and on a little POV camera.

Ivan, meanwhile, has all the big-dicked quiet machismo of a Laird Hamilton although the attention his surfing brings seems to fit like an ill-fitting suit. His edginess has gifted him a sponsorship with big brother John’s company Florence, but that don’t mean he has to bend or change or be faux-interesting to suit anybody.

Lift the eyebrows, twitch the Tom Selleck lookalike moustache, shake the head.

Ivan knows all the audience needs is the shock wave of pleasure from the thrill of his tube riding, which he delivers at a lefthand reef .

There are plenty of hard motherfuckers around but they all dick-soft compared to the Florences.

Essential.

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Surf film masterminds release Stephanie Gilmore-Tom Curren-Mason Ho instant classic!

Put on your rubber gloves and submerge your fist in this jar of goo!

The surf film duo Vaughan Blakey, writer, and Nick Pollet, editor, are the masters of frank, intimate and revealing portraits of international surfing celebrities.

They are funded by Rip Curl and only feature that company’s riders but with each queen fabulous, who’s to argue?

Their body of work includes the Tom Curren-in-Mex-during-Covid masterpiece Free Scrubber, a man in the midst of his sixtieth year but surfing and living as if raging against the dying light; dollys with cocks classic The Greatest Surf Movie in the Universe, which was panned by The New York Times as “spectacularly inane” and humongously bad” despite it being at least equally enjoyable as a spank-rim combo, fun without anal discomfort or the old gag and sputter when it comes to oral.

Earlier, Postcards from Morgs – a film on the one-time world title contender Morgan Cibilic prior to his catastrophic failure to re-qualify for the tour.

Vaughan and Nick also made the recent film Kangs. The closing section featuring Medina, Mason and Mick cut to Floodlights’ Wide Open Land demanding immediate inclusion as a surf classic.

Today, Lazer Breathing Dragons, a title inspired by a drawing by Vaughan’s son Milo when he was eight and starring Stephanie Gilmore, Mason Ho and Tom Curren.

Sixty-year-old Tom Curren brought only a quiver of high-performance surfboards made for Joao Chianca and was “hell-bent”, says Vaughan, to surf just like the frenetic Brazilian.

“Tom goes, ‘I like how he’s here and then here there. I just wanna be able to go from here to here right now.’ No one would believe the most patient surfer in the world wants to surf like the most frenzied. He loved the instant nature of Joao’s A to B. There really is no space in between.”

The Gilmore sequence is cut to the Divinyl’s All the Boys in Town and is a cum dump impossible to ignore as it drips from your pink-brown hole.

Essential.

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