What separates a Dane Reynolds edit from the rest is joyous purity, energy and barrel riding that hits you in the stomach.

Only two years ago, the rural idyll of go-for-broke former world number four Dane Reynolds was shattered by the arrival of Kourtney Kardashian and her husband Travis Barker, the pint-sized jack-in-the-box drummer for Blink 182.

Although he is yet to speak publicly about the sale of Conan O’Brien’s old joint on Padaro Lane there in Serena Cove, Carpinteria, to Travis and Kourtney it’s no secret that this is a man who likes his privacy.

In this latest YouTube instalment for Chapter 11 TV, Dane Reynolds has escaped the noise of Central California for the wilds of Sumatra, the second largest of the Greater Sunda Islands, in the Malay Archipelago. Here, Reynolds thrills surf fans with a performance that proves he is still as limber as a Haitian dancer. An Australian surfer with meringue-white skin and strawberry red hair summarises the mood of the pack with a Fisher-esque to-camera monologue.

“Oh mate, fuck, good to have a a crack, couple of legends out there doing their thing, inspiring shit, thank you Sumatra, la la la la la la.”

What separates a Dane Reynolds edit from the rest is an excellent question. The ingredients are joyous purity, energy and barrel riding that hits you in the stomach.

Two weeks ago, Reynolds showcased his dramatic weight loss in a new edit, filmed six months after he was nearly killed after a blow to his head.

And last month, Dane Reynolds lionised the slacker lifestyle in a controversial anti-MAGA edit that pushed back against conventional lifestyles, the sort championed by the fundamentalist Protestant right and red-hatters.

"It takes skill to become an adult by skating along and never dedicating your time and energy into a specific career."

The go-for-broke Bakersfield surfer Dane Reynolds has released his latest riposte to conventional lifestyles, the sort pushed by the fundamentalist Protestant right and red-hatters, with the edit “We did a great job of doing nothing.”

“Matt and I were surfing Emma Wood – if you call it that… Anyone else feel California has dipped into a deep dark black hole that won’t allow any decent waves to reach the coast?” writes Dane Reynolds.

“Anyways, we were shooting the shit about how impressive it is that one of our dear friends had gotten to where he’s at in life without actually doing anything. It’s very impressive. It takes a certain skill to become an adult by skating along, never applying yourself or dedicating your time and energy into a specific career but somehow he comes out on top time after time.”

Dane Reynolds continues:

“‘Did a great job of doing nothing’ stuck. It’s used to describe a daily grovel that you can barely even call exercise, or a day in the shop when nothings working, ruining screens, staining clothes, no customers, spam calls, broken printer… those times when you just seem to be spinning your wheels.

“I found a stack of black and white prints at the swap meet taken by a racing enthusiast. One of em was of a Buick Regal spinning its wheels before a race and it clicked. That’s the name of the film. ‘We did a great job, of doing nothing’”

Dane Reynolds is the master of the razor-sharp riposte.

One year ago, almost to the day, came his riposte to what he described as the WSL’s “pandering bullshit.”

As always with the almost forty-year-old daddy of three, essential.