VID: One surf before work

Great little vid to get you stoked for an early morning surf. From Andy Mac (thanks PB!).

VID: is this a good idea? (board, wave and kick flip)

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Northy wins God’s Country Teams Title.

Surf Photos of You :  The inaugural God’s Country Team Title was organised and held at Long Reef Beach yesterday.  Although the conditions were small, the quality of the surfing was great.  Teams from Avalon, Warriewood, Narrabeen, LRSA, Curl Curl, FBI & Queencliff competed for prizes donated by local companies.  Placings:  1st.Northy, 2nd. Long Reef, 3rd. Freshwater & 4th, Queenscliff.  Click on the link to check the youtube vid.  Enjoy.  

Video: Dee Why point watershots 28/5

The wind came up late and that meant there were glassy and solid conditions at Dee Why on Weds morning, tthe 26th of May. I had Sony’s ultra-slim waterproof DSC-TX5 tucked into my wettie so I shot a few stills and some high def video. The weather was rainy and grey, so the action’s not too colourful but the little camera worked quite well. I put about a minute and a bit of clips together along with a taste of a Dave Kowalski tune. Enjoy!

Vid: Nick’s clips from Dee Why pt last Friday

Ooops!

This one came in on the weekend and I forgot to post it for you to check out. Gives you a pretty good feel for the day…

VIDEO: Critical Slide Society gets slidin’

Watching this made me want to go surfin’! These guys look like they’re having so much fun on all kinds of different water vectors.
Kudos to Nathan Oldfield for another good one…

Critical Sliders from Nathan Oldfield on Vimeo.

This is something I made for my friends at The Critical Slide Society. It features the slipperyisms of Sage Joske, Kameron Brown, Brett Calller, Jacob Stuth & Matt Cuddihy.

For more Critical Slide goodness please visit: thecriticalslidesociety.com/ & criticalslidesociety.blogspot.com/.

The song is called ‘Let Go’ by The Villainares. For more Villainares shizniz please go to: http://myspace.com/thevillainaresband.

Thanks for watching a freefilms.com.au thing.

VIDEO: Quiksilver Pro Highlights

Taj wins this one and the caravan heads south to Bells… Highlights video from Quiksilver PR.

Video: spectators injured at Mav’s contest

Huge waves at Mavericks. So big in fact that spectators were injured when a set smashed over the seawall (as captured in this video)

REVIEW: Last Hope – 16 original short (surf) films

Last Hope is as the title above says, a collection of 16 short films about surfing. The project was pulled together by a couple of surf media veterans, Andrew Kidman and Aaron Curnow. In his intro remarks, Kidman says “I thought something special would come of just letting the filmmakers make whatever they wanted.”

I thought it would be an interesting exercise to create a review as I watched Last Hope. But rather than just sit here tapping away while I watched, I’ve decided to take a more absurd approach and to document my responses as I have them via Twitter. So, here’s the plan: at 1150 Sydney time, I’ll push the play button and start tweeting.

To follow them as they happen, just point your browser to my twitter stream at: http://twitter.com/mr_realsurf

Well, that was interesting… here are all my tweets in the movie running order…

#lasthope opens w/slo mo of Nat Young at Angourie in the 70s. Chill tune fun, fun looking waves and super smooth Animal

Nat sequence shot by Albert Falzon, mellow tune oh ma the sea is rising, study of kid standing on rocks and swell coming in – nice

Bones soCal surfer profile, surfin’ philosopher, vintage singlefin, California green water, tune Been So Long slow and mellow

Mini waves – ultra glassy tiny cylinders in slo mo, very meditative & gorgeous almost cgi look to footage. If only I was 6″ tall!

Brocky & Baddy by Albert Falzon, more blue far north 70′s perfection – out takes from Morning of the Earth

Falzon’s Brocky & Baddy vintage single fins at Angourie in some long ago 70′s summer – oo MP! stylin’

Colts sequence… some place in US, car on fwy, horse racing shots () moody, but where’s da waves man

Let me see the Colts tune by Smog, nice, but only water seen is San Francisco bay

“Dad’s been away again” Sufjan Stevens tune soundtrack to combo of vintage surf footage and home movies. Moody nostalgic feel

Val’s nightmare features live ver of dirty three’s everything’s f*d , tasty tune, and some outtakes from Litmus movie.

“Val’s nightmare” dark sequences from the cutting room floor, concert footage to surf footage ratio about 5 to 1

“Atlantic City Ashes” sequence & tune of same title, if that’s surf in Atlantic City, it looks solid. First seq pretty dodgy but

“Atlantic City Ashes” cold water walls and super short fishy (looks like kneeboard) footage dark & wintery brrr.

“central Cal” is dat Piedras Blancas Split screen b&w guy drawing patterns in sand – oo Sandspit seq too brief! Spacey tune

“central Cal” hangglider seq, cloudy beach, waves from train where Ranch, Jalama No surfin’ but moody & like the sand artist

“requiem for the lot” Cali surfers defending Wind’n'sea parking lot against redevlopment, super fun looking wave too.

“Requiem for the Lot” Windansea parking lot overlooking the wave special to those folks. Becoming a dog park apparently.

“A train” Not having swell gives you time to think, read about and contemplate surfing. Agree. Ode to the marginal days. Nice.

“A train” surfing in New York to Holly Throsby tune One of you for me, man water looks cold & landscape dire.-but waves are waves

Spaceshell sequence, more dark, moody intro, big waves, Ghost Tree maybe Then little Rincon La Jolla who knows, in Cali tho

“The Island” super8 grainy, old Ektachrome blue, many summers ago, smokin’ rights. Now smokin’ lefts. Early 80′s maybe in HI

“The Island” old film world. Colour shifted, beat up and scratched, can’t help but be melancholy

“End” by John Frank, opens with sea and sky from boat, little coda to the collecction. Credit roll…

the last word. Generally worthy, probably much too arty for typical surf movie audiences, consistent if dark mood… good tunes

the last word cont, sequences well crafted, not modern performance surfing , but that’s what everyone else does in their vids.

last words: a good collection for a rainy afternoon waiting for surf & reflecting on waves past…

The Last Hope DVD is bundled with a CD of all the music and a 24 page booklet with thoughts, interviews and pictures. It’s released on the Spunk Records label.

VID: highlights from Day 1 of Billa Bali Pro Jr

Highlights reel from 2009 Billabong Bali Pro Junior

Billabong Pro Junior Bali
Tuesday July 21st to Monday July 27th 2009
Association of Surfing Professionals Australasia Grade-5 Rated
Prize Money – $AUS30 000
Keramas/Bali

An epic final day at the Billabong Pro Junior – Bali
Performance surfing in 5 feet perfect barrelling Keramas, one of the world’s highest performance waves.
Great Barrel rides, huge scores and celebrations as Australia’s Dean Bowen
takes the final at the Billabong Pro Junior Bali – the Association of
Surfing Professionals (ASP) only rated event in Indonesia for 2009.
www.aspaustralasia.com