It ain’t difficult to argue the case that Mason Ho,
the Sunset Beach superstar, has had more barrels than Hollywood has
cocksuckers.
Society has an obsession with youth and
hotness.
But what if you were to throw Mason Ho and guy-pal Luke Swanson
at Indonesia’s best wave in conditions so spectacular they have
notes of Pipe? Wouldn’t that be hot too?
In this latest tuberiding compendium from Mason Ho and filmer
Rory Pringle, Ho jackknifes his legs and bares his teeth in mock
orgasm at each tube that descends upon him.
It ain’t difficult to argue the case that Mason Ho, the
thirty-four-year-old Sunset Beach superstar, has had more barrels
than Hollywood has cocksuckers.
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A little Country Soul with Bryce Young.
Son of “the most important surfer of the
modern era” profiled in epoch-defining film, “Following the Fall
Line”
“Following the Fall Line” is a portrait of Bryce Young and
the people who have inspired him on his own journey. This film,
produced by needessentials and edited by Milo Inglis, showcases the
unique surfing and skateboarding talents of Bryce Young while
giving an in-depth understanding of the influences that have helped
shape his creative approach to waves and terrain. Flowing on from
concepts explored in the 1977 film “Fall Line,” cinematographers Ti
Deaton-Young, Milo Inglis and Gabe Roxburgh beautifully capture the
way Bryce’s environment and community influence his creative
approach to life. In the film narration Bryce explains how the
talents of Ti Deaton-Young, Nat Young, Ryan Burch and Laurie Towner
have played such formative roles in his development. With an
eclectic soundtrack featuring Huun Huur Tu, Dorothy Ashby, William
Onyebor, Mick Turner, Terry Riley, Fenua, William Tyler, Donny &
Joe Emerson, Goanna and JJ Cale, this film is a stunning portrait
of Bryce Young following his own fall line.”
If you crave something different, I highly encourage you to
watch.
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The wild, murky waters of Yellowstone with
local shredder hitting the curves, inset.
Guinness world record holding surfer
unveils isolated surf community in hamlet famous as setting for
neo-western TV hit Yellowstone!
Trussed up in much rubber, Dylan Graves tames the
wild and unruly waters, surfing as elastic as an after-birth
vagina.
The last time the Puerto Rican heartthrob Dylan Graves
was on these pages, he had just smashed the world record
for most manoeuvres on a wave, a leg-trembling forty turns on a
Sumatran tidal bore.
(An obscure record previously held by Cristóbal de Col for 34
turns on a wave at Chicama in Peru, occasionally and lazily
referenced as the world’s longest lefthander. Graves, who is
thirty-seven, submitted the ride to the Guinness people and is
still awaiting confirmation of his astonishing feat.)
In his latest adventure Graves joins up with a Montana surfer
called KB who has a voice that could bite the fat off a taxi-cab
driver’s neck, as full of vibrations of power as those machines
which rout out grooves in wood, to surf several river waves that
look like tornado puke.
The water is very murky and very cold and the danger obvious,
but the impulse to clown is impulsive to Grave and, trussed up in
much rubber, he tames the wild and unruly waters, surfing as
elastic as an after-birth vagina.
What’s most interesting, is the sort of surfboard that works in
these waves: wide, flat, shovel-nosed things, so white and
rectangular they look like body-of-Christ wafers.
Click play and hear the scripture.
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Dreamy Oaxaca roll-in with Jackie at the
wheel.
Surf prodigy godson of Kelly Slater stars
in Mexican-themed film described as a “savage, breezy, occasionally
obscene and sometimes poignant mix of laughs and surfing!”
Jackie Dorian employs his razzle dazzle on Oaxaca’s
famous sand-bottom points!
In this fourteen-minute featurette from Jackson Dorian,
the sixteen-year-old son of Shane Dorian and godson of literal God
Kelly Slater, we find the preternaturally talented kid
employing his razzle dazzle on Oaxaca’s famous sand-bottom
points.
Many highlights, too many to mention as per all of Jackie’s
edits, but it’s the chemistry with the noted board collector and
stylish obese shredder Uncle Buggs that is perfect; Jackie, a
little dynamo, Buggs, perhaps three times his volume, drawing
Curren-esque lines.
And, some of the roll-ins Jackie gets at the five-and-a-half
minute mark, ooowee-oo etc.
Stylistically, this short is like Jackie himself: bold, quick
and effortlessly entertaining.
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The story of a wounded bird that didn’t know
where to beat its wings, an immutable sadness masked by
vivacity.
Watch Lisa Andersen biopic “Trouble” for
free, “Raging and fighting and surfing like a gorgeous
disaster!”
“She's the first woman to cross over into surfing
celebrityhood and achieve a dominance that made the pig dudes shut
up and take notice."
Six years ago, Chas Smith was commissioned by clothing
giant Roxy to create a documentary on the four-time world champ
Lisa Andersen, the gal whose surfing made most male
shredders look they were using orthopaedic aids.
It wasn’t an easy ride for the Cardiff-based writer and
director, trawling through hours of ex-boyfriend Dave Parmenter’s
videos of the pair, mowing through editors, navigating the
conflicting approaches of his v Roxy’s, deadlines that existed in
only an ephemeral form, Smith getting his nourishment almost
entirely from soft drinks, and a budget that quickly evaporated as
Smith spent American dollars as if it were Italian lire.
The result, “Trouble”, surprised the hell out of me, the story
of a wounded bird that didn’t know where to beat its wings, an
immutable sadness masked by vivacity.
“She’s the first woman to cross over into surfing celebrityhood
and achieve a dominance that made the pig dudes shut up and take
notice,” wrote Outside magazine in 1996.
As Chas tells it,
“She lived on the beach and in her car before being taken in by
an abusive local surfboard shaper. She was, in fact, often abused
in relationships, running away time and again when things got too
bad. Or when she felt trapped. Or when the system threw up
barriers.
“In the water, she was something else entirely, raging and
fighting and surfing like a gorgeous disaster but could never quite
put it all together, competitively, until career suicide presented
itself in the form of an unexpected pregnancy. Over objections and
common sense, she decided to have the child and in so doing
magically broke through and achieved her dream of becoming a
champ.
“Trouble follows Lisa on her all too human journey. Surf is a
beautiful backdrop but the real story is the epic poem of her life.
It is the struggles, abuse, pain and joy. It is the story of a
modern, self-made American woman.”
To watch, it used to cost five bucks to rent. Now, free!
