The Palm Springs Surf Club, one of three tanks being
built or repurposed in that desert resort town famous as a shrine
to mid-century modernism, is a gold spark of pure light, I
think.
Ain’t nothing serious, here.
Clownish good times mixed with the California sun; a place so
ripe it is deadly sweet.
Here, below, twelve minutes of finless tow-ats, a little
bodysurfing, much vulgar indolence.
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Wade Goodall ain't one for doing things by
numbers.
Watch: Vans’ full-length feature
Pentacoastal aka “Puke the colour of pitch, eyes rolling back,
barking like dogs, speaking in tongues!”
By Derek Rielly
Hillbilly shredders!
Did you miss yesterday’s world premiere of the
thirty-minute film Wade Goodall and Shane Fletcher made
for their Daddy Vans?
Yeah, me too, standing there waiting for the thing to start,
looking bewildered, Tanner Gudauskas telling me to stick it out
etc.
The last time I spoke to Wade was five years or so ago, when he
lit up on various topics, including Teahupoo, “When it’s big is a
siren of sorts. It lures you in. It must be a woman. When you see
it, you want it but it scares you. She will either give you the
ride of your life or kick you in the nuts. My favourite wave in the
world for sure” and staying relevant away from the tour, “I don’t
give a shit about staying relevant. I surf because I love it. If
your main concern is staying relevant then you’re on the cow’s tit
and milking it hard. I don’t want to do that.”
Pentacoastal, the name, is a clever riff on Pentecostalism, that
wild hillbilly branch of Protestantism with its baptisms, holy
fire, speaking in tongues, imminent second coming of Jay-Z etc.
Come for Wade’s wild takeoff into the tube, stay for Reynolds’
wild backside hangers, brave little Harry Bryant’s Indo beats and a
fine soundtrack.
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Bask in Mason's histrionics.
Watch: Mason Ho in “Did they take your baby
to harvest body organs?”
By Derek Rielly
A masterclass in the
childish-but-thrilling-to-watch fins-first takeoff…
In this, the fiftieth instalment of Mason Ho’s North
Shore winter and spring, our innards are yanked out by
Mason’s capacity to ride waves fins first.
Oh, it’s childish trick, I know, and to some about as clever as
losing one’s teeth to improve the ability to fellate, but it’s a
skill that has forever fascinated me.
SB's Ryan Dahl, Charlie, and Juana De Ruiz,
the queen of wax production in Vista for, oowee, twenty-five years
and then some. Jackie Boston
Watch: Made in the USA (Part Two)! Your
Guide to Great American Surf Co’s!
By Derek Rielly
Wax pioneer Sticky Bumps do it all in their San
Diego lab…
One year shy of fifty years in the game for an
all-American, family-run biz that makes everything in a factory out
the back of Carlsbad, well, that ain’t a bad sorta
run.
This short, hosted by Charlie Smith, is part two in our
Made in the
USA series that celebrates companies that don’t
use Chinese or Bangladeshi sweatshops where brave children are
tapped for a few years and then thrown away on the scrap heap with
all the other tweens the factory owner has destroyed.
In this series, it’s American workers, American
ideas. American juggernauts of steely muscle and
bravado.
And, today, you’ll tap into Wax Research, makers of Sticky
Bumps, and see how wax is produced in a no-waste, all-American
facility where everything is created in-house.
Sticky Bumps is also the official wax of
BeachGritand the makers of our own very
special blend, perfumed to the heavens, coming real
soon.
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Mikey Wright can wink an eye, throw a kiss and
toss his hair, all at the same time.
Watch: Mikey Wright in, “You fucken get
sick of crew asking what’s wrong with ya!”
By Derek Rielly
Ongoing spinal issues with Mikey has kept that
firecracker’s fuse unlit. Until now!
I doubt if we’ll see a family like the Wrights
within surfing ever again, at least in my lifetime.
Three surfers on the tour, including a duel world champ, and all
of ’em with their own aesthetic.