What will make you lick the boundaries of your
mouth in this film is the tuberiding of Mason Ho who, much like a
crackwhore, disappears for days, reappearing periodically as if
nothing had happened.
Watch: Mason Ho and Mick Fanning in “I
traveled 500 miles to give you my seed!”
By Derek Rielly
Mason Ho delivers backside tubing sequence of the
year. Drop everything, watch…
For the next two days you can watch Rip
Curl’s Red Monkey Full Moon, a buddy film
starring the Hawaiian Mason Ho and the retired-from-the-tour
Australian world champion, Mick Fanning.
It was directed by Vaughan Blakey and Danny Johnson, the
creators of 2017’s Scary Good, a movie that was so
impossibly engaging it left me gasping like a fish.
What will make you lick the boundaries of your mouth in this
film is the tuberiding of Mason Ho who, much like a crackwhore,
disappears for days, reappearing periodically as if nothing had
happened.
Mick Fanning, of course, cleans up the scraps like a cat licking
the blood off her newborns. An ample and appreciated wingman.
A must watch.
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A plainspoken performance by Torren Martyn
featuring two surfboards, a seven-two and a six-ten.
Watch: Torren Martyn in “If you can’t
behead them, join them!”
By Derek Rielly
A plainspoken performance in mainland Mexico
featuring two surfboards of ancient design, a seven-two and a
six-ten…
Perry Gershkow’s keenly observed documentary is a
behind-the-scenes view of Torren Martyn in mainland
Mexico.
Mr Martyn, an Australian who touches the clouds at six-feet-two
and who only rides twin-fin surfboards shaped by Simon Jones,
demonstrates, here, as he always does, the sort of flash and glitz
that has made him a cult favourite.
Here, Torren recounts his adventure.
The little mission down south to warm water came around as a
bit of a surprise to me too, I’d originally planned to just spend a
week or two with my girlfriend Aiyana in California and pictured
surfing knee to waist high Malibu at best. One idea led to another as most good times do and before we
really knew it Aiyana and I were rolling south of where we were
currently camped out driving in awe through these beautiful snow
capped mountains in the Eastern Sierras on a pretty straight
mission south to a serious contrast of scenes, we were pretty
excited!
A good mate Perry Gershkow was able to juggle a few
commitments around up in his neck of the woods of SF and before we
really had too much time to think we kind of just woke up the next
day deep in central America, it was a classic little
scenario.
I was travelling with two boards, a 7’2 and a 6’10. It’s so
rare that I break a board, maybe one or two a year? anyhow I
managed to break them both in the first couple of days.I guess I
was rattled and disheartened when the first broke and then when the
second went, I was kind of just baffled like haha really? luckily
the local guys there have probably stitched together more boards
than anyone anywhere else in the world so it was a pretty efficient
little turn around, I was so grateful for that. Thankfully my mate
Luke lent me his little 5’7 and a 4’11 for a little wiggle in
between.
The waves we had down there were absolutely incredible, sort
of mind boggling at times. It’s humbling the energy in the ocean
and the way the sand and currents dictated where and what waves we
surfed. They were there one day and gone the next. I think that was
the beauty of it too, we didn’t really have any expectations or too
much of a plan, things just fell in to place and I wouldn’t change
a thing.
New: Watch John John Florence in “One
rectal breach coming up!”
By Derek Rielly
Get a piece of John while you can…
This five-minute short intimately captures the
lavish life of John John Florence as he “travels to
Victoria to surf the second event of the year. Alpacas in the
backyard, plenty of swell, and an appearance from Tom Curren
highlight the story as John wins his first Bell, and his first WSL
Championship Tour event since returning from injury.”
Highlights: a surf in two-foot waves where he
demonstrates his mastery as a percussionist, what felt like his
inevitable win at Bells and a moment with the preposterously upbeat
Tom Curren, whose surfing is still as catchy as an Israeli pop
song.
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Kanoa Igarashi, painting Bali various shades
of red and pink after his Keramas win.
Profile featurette: Kanoa Igarashi in “It’s
so good! Once it hits your lips, it’s so good!”
By Derek Rielly
Cameras follow world number five through Bali and
Western Australia. Layers slowly peeled off, personality
revealed…
To know Kanoa Igarashi is to, necessarily, love him, it
seems.
In this twelve-and-a-half minute hit from his masters at Red
Bull, we become grafted to the Japanese-American as he, first,
wipes his ass with the world’s best at Keramas, Bali, before being
guillotined in round four at Margaret River.
Two nights ago at J-Bay, Kanoa, a man ever so easy to spot with
his dyed yellow balaclava helmet, was like a movie pig broken out
of its cage.
He had the speed, the flamboyance to loose the fins or carve
the arc and a faux-aggro mojo so ostentatious that in spite of its
tendency to alienate we are now learning to love. He freely admits
this mojo is not his but a product of his coach Jake Patterson and
after donning this cape so many times it’s starting to fit. Iggy in
the yellow jersey.
Iggy winning Pipeline.
Iggy taking the World Title.
All these things could happen.
Is there a weakness in Kanoa’s game?
Apart from his roundhouse, he’s as perfect as a gorgeous
pansexual carrying a sign that reads: Orgasms for Sale or
Trade.
Plain delightful.
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Frankie O, a rare fish like Brendan Margieson,
Craig Anderson and Dane Reynolds.
Rich history: Meet the South African kid
who created the template for the (paid) freesurfer
By Derek Rielly
Before Craig, before Dane, there was Frankie…
The Search campaign may seem a little shopworn now, even
if the message still rings relatively true, but when it
was launched in the early nineties it felt truly revolutionary.
The concept came from the writer and former pro surfer Derek
Hynd, who, in 1991, wanted to create a sort of filmic
energy between the three-time world champ Tom Curren and an unknown
talent as they searched for waves in the Indian Ocean: the
Mentawais, Mozambique etc.
That kid who was given the role and a four-year deal with Rip
Curl was Durban’s Frankie Oberholzer (born 1972), who had learned
to surf on an ironing board.
He proved to be a surfer of rare talent, with only a passing
interest — and virtually no skill — in organized
competition.
As a condition of his Rip Curl agreement, Oberholzer was not
permitted to enter surf contests. The handsome longhaired surfer
traveled often with Curren, further developed a technique based on
equal parts grace, power, and flash, and was featured in more than
a dozen surf videos throughout the ’90s, including The Search
(1992), Beyond the Boundaries (1994), and Tripping the
Planet(1996).
Frankie’s got a kid now, another shredder although not quite in
his ballpark, as they say, and is making surfboards.
