Watch: Bryce Young // Following The Fall Line

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For Bryce Young, there's no escaping the shadow cast by his old man, the inimitable Nat Young. So Bryce doesn't even try, and instead walks his own path, spurning competition for deep exploration of various surf craft and the waves to ride them in.

However, some things can't be avoided, and DNA is one of them. In the very first wave of this film, Bryce cuts back then cross steps, and as sure as a forensic scientist can link your atoms to your ancestors, so to is that movement an unmistakable rendition of the man who begat him.

In fact, Following the Fall Line takes its name from Nat's fall line concept and label, though we visit just where the son has taken the idea: into the air, through that amazing top turn he has, and across the array of surf (and skate) craft he's mastered.

It's a long film, especially compared with the fare of the day, but well worth tuning in to see a style and approach from outside the media bubble.

Following the Fall Line is a film by Milo Inglis and produced by needessentials.com

Click here for an interview with Bryce.

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Island Bay Wednesday, 19 Jul 2023 at 3:29pm

Watched the first 5 minutes with my jaw agape. He's stupidly talented.

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Gowsa Wednesday, 19 Jul 2023 at 3:39pm

The dude is like Rubber-man

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BBrowny Wednesday, 19 Jul 2023 at 3:41pm

His top turn layback thing is out of this world! I don't think I've ever seen anyone do one better.

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Alex Papas Wednesday, 19 Jul 2023 at 3:42pm

asym and fish sales just increased x 10

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udo Wednesday, 19 Jul 2023 at 4:19pm

Im with you bbrowny Bryce Young JJF Hack

Vissla ...What the Fark were you thinking !
Scored Scanno Ha Ha.

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tiger Wednesday, 19 Jul 2023 at 5:13pm

Was out Anga's 7 or 8 years ago paddling back out with him flying along on a wave. He hit a cutback carve at a super high angle, and doused me with a firehouse like spray. One of the most powerful turns I've ever witnessed. The spray particles were globules, not drops. Looking forward to giving this a watch when I get the chance.

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Reform Wednesday, 19 Jul 2023 at 9:51pm

"Dads Dad" and that's that!

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brevil Thursday, 20 Jul 2023 at 6:38am

Really great vid, so nice to see power turns and serious cutbacks . Hopefully more will explore assym's and their versatility , my 9'2" custom assym log is now my go to board. Nothing compares.
Anyway top video and respect to all who made it possible .

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thermalben Thursday, 20 Jul 2023 at 6:55am

That was unreal.

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Surfalot67 Thursday, 20 Jul 2023 at 7:22am

Have surfed with him a few times. Seriously must be one of the most naturally talented surfers ever

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Mindora Thursday, 20 Jul 2023 at 7:48am

I feel like my day has already peaked after watching that last section with Goanna playing.

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Mick Lawrence Thursday, 20 Jul 2023 at 9:49am

At the risk of being labelled a cynical old man, I confess that I find contemporary surf videos both boring and crass. Usually I bail before the opening title. However, with 60 years surfing experience and 40 years filmmaking, my opinion is easily defendable.

Hats off to Milo Inglis and crew. A beautiful story - beautifully told. Outstanding surfing, fabulous images, seamless editing and a perfect soundtrack.

Wish I'd made it.

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ryder Thursday, 20 Jul 2023 at 9:53am

Couldn't help but feel some of the footage was filmed a fair while ago using a $30 tripod. Those parts were hard to watch. Surfing was great but the production quality lacked greatly when compared against previous efforts from Scanlon and crew.

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groovie Thursday, 20 Jul 2023 at 4:56pm

This is where it's at! Not the Woozle Circus, Nat's Nat & that's that! Well done Beau & Ryan + Laurie T. Reminded me of my first few times visiting Angas back in the late 70s early 80s! Magic back then like nearly everywhere else over run now! Glad I was there way back when camping for weeks on end with a mate from Grafton surfing Spooks by ourselves & Angas was never really busy!

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andy-mac Thursday, 20 Jul 2023 at 4:57pm

That was great.
Geez very talented bloke.

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Iced vovo Thursday, 20 Jul 2023 at 5:53pm

Outlandish surfing on such a variety of craft, amazing film. He could ride a door & he did, from getting barrelled on an alia to manoeuvring a 12ft log & ripping on alternative craft, really impressive, great soundtrack too.

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simba Thursday, 20 Jul 2023 at 8:42pm

Great film loved it and well done to Milo and Ti and Ryan and of course to Bryce.......excellent !

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radiationrules Friday, 21 Jul 2023 at 10:30am

Awesome film Milo & Bryce; I particularly loved the all-pervading sense of gratefulness and connections to nature, so by extension would also say thanks to Needs Essentials for funding ideas that extend and promote the art of surfing.

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simba Friday, 21 Jul 2023 at 2:52pm

one thing the film did highlite is the amount of dopes that paddle out and get in the way.....must of happened 20 times in that film and all the time when i go surf ........always someone right there in the wrong spot.

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PCS PeterPan Friday, 21 Jul 2023 at 4:01pm

Surfed with Nat yonks ago . I was riding one of my own boards which was far from 'irregular' like something RB shapes . Nat had a look and said "yeah , keep em simple and you'll be right!" .
I look at Ryan's creations and he is way ahead of nearly everyone .
Bryce on Ryan's boards , yeah, very watchable .

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Ash Friday, 21 Jul 2023 at 5:24pm

Along with MOTE and Psychic Migrations, this is does it for me, Love the tiny wooden ironing board surfing and above all the last sequence with LT ant BY surfing an incredible wave to a timeless track. There's a lot to take in with this movie.

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frog Saturday, 22 Jul 2023 at 9:29am

What an artist, but also what a canvas he has had to work with. A bowly point like that just begs for, and assists with, the big slash move. Many get sections like that every now and then - spread across many surfs. Not three times per wave.

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Jack O'Bean Saturday, 22 Jul 2023 at 3:04pm

This bloke's control of shot boards is sensational...I was around surfing when they started being used by a couple of blokes at Nth Steyne. For me short board surfing has always been awkward, untidy, not at all pretty but this bloke Bryce held me 'spellbound" . I knew his father...arrogant "so and so". I recall a chap friend of mine "Rick Oxxxxx"so wanting to ingratiate himself with Nat that he often stole gear from his work (Repco) to give to Nat..Pitiful!!...and he was sprung by telling a new employee how to get way with it...not knowing the 'newie' was the boss' son. That sai ..Nat was unforgettable...watching Nat surf was like watching ballet. I can see a copy of Nat in the precise way Brice walks the inside rail and crosses over. That's Nat... Once or twice I saw almost-Nat" in a Bryce cut back. I watched Nat particularly at long reef...slim long legged, long armed...butter smooth and as he cranked a cut-back his right arm was vertical his left just past his beautifully arranged, bent left knee and he'd crank that board around straighten pickup the foam then crank it to the right and 'walk the plank' as was a 'then' terminology. as daintily and slowly as you see Bryce do it. His tunnel word was magic!

Nat got flogging one time, far to viciously I thought though I thought it 'long overdue' On reflection now I think I understand his aloofness better than I did 'way back when'. I think he lived a lot inside his head. I didn't realise it then but thought of it just now....when a girl (Jenny Smith from Forestville) I asked-out said to me "I never thought you'd ask me...you are so aloof'...Aloof yes....I think that was Nat.too. Can others recall the Narrabeen stomp...the floor collapsing, the South Steyne hall with Little Paty and Roland Storm ('Rolling Thunder')

One of the most handsome , tawny haired surfers 'ever' at Nth Steyne hardly ever had a girlfriend...he focused on his surfing and his short board experimentation. He was 'aloof'...it's not being 'not gregarious' it's just travelling a little distantly , neurological. His son has a board shop now on goldcoast.

There were a few really good surfers who, like Bryce, has that alone-ness, aloofness, 'find your own way'-ness...Jeff "Fungus' (from Fergus..his mother married a few times!) Hollands was one, Chris Johnson who brought skate boarding with him from California...and his Dewy Weber board.

A lot died then from drug use, Robbie Kerr in an accident after smoking pot, Paul and Louchie Gee heroin overdoses , Garbo, off his face riding his motor bike decapitated I believe ....too many, far to many for some drug shit.

Pommie Roy was another loner, elegant handsome upright and and very fit a golden gloves boxer hung around Steyne and mid Steyne, The westies who came with their duffle bags on the Ferry.. 'moontans' mocked ...poor bastards..just wanted to go to Manly. and had the 'piss' taken as the price of it....Ross Bull, Abo, Henry and the Nth Stene group of course...the names come back still after sixty years have gone. The pretty Toni Balmer who's father always kept a floor in the units he built...I was at a 3 day party at her unit right on the point at Sth Steyne.

I remember Peter Thomas who was sooled onto me by Warren McLintock ( I'd really like to drop a line to his sister Georgina if anyone knows where she is) to be bashed. Peter fronted me in the street near the old 'Dagwood Dog" at South Steyne store.. but it didn't happen. He told me he'd been asked to give me a flogging and I didn't back down but he first asked me my story as to why I was going to 'cop it' (he thought) I told him. He put out his hand and said "you're a decent bloke' Peter was a far more decent bloke than his reputation and some of his actions and we became sort of friends...he'd open up to me...which is why I tried to contact his son who wrote to the forum asking for anyone who knew his dad....maybe I was just too late in replying.

Friday night at the Brighton..Saturday with Morgan and others, I may have told this story before...Morgan used to brag about his "poofter punching" on Friday nights up the Cross. One Saturday I saw him in band-aids and bandages looking a lot worse for wear. "So...how'd this happen Peter"?....."We went up the Cross followed this poof down a side street. he stopped and suddenly another bloke leaped out of a shop doorway swinging a claw hammer" He gave them all a hiding! ....Ahh well...what goes around eh!? I think he gave it away after that there's no fun as predator when the victims fights back, and wins

I'd better stop reminiscing...most of my friends were dead from drugs by the time I was 24. I wasn't interested at all but I was astounded how readily one could get a 'blowie' from some pretty girl or another if you could offer her a joint at the Canopus Room. Others who really just wanted to be loved..or feel like they were....say Karen Whittle?...were mocked and derided. It was an interesting time there in the 60's. I wonder whether Frank Whittle who was pretty good with his fists, saw him a few times around Freshwater was her brother....

In closing it was Collaroy I think Nat frequented on land...but Long Reef was his theatre. I see him exactly there in the video running in my head. I'd really like to see Bryce ride say an 8'3-9.0 ft boards and see whether more of Nat comes out in him..I'm .just voyeuristic I guess.. or maybe would like to see more of what he picked up from the old man. My regards Clancy
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udo Saturday, 22 Jul 2023 at 3:54pm

Clancy ...some ripper Mal surfing here - Mal stuff starts around 14 mins

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toncie Saturday, 22 Jul 2023 at 8:30pm

Sounds like you didn't watch the whole video. Later in the vid he's riding mids and longboards, some clips with his dad.

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Solitude Saturday, 22 Jul 2023 at 3:27pm

Does surfing get much better than that? Have been a fan of this lad for quite some time. Otherworldly. This region produces the world’s most stylish surfers.

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philosurphizing... Saturday, 22 Jul 2023 at 4:11pm

True that.
Late 80's surfed Angourie quite a bit, I remember sitting on the beach late in the arvo after an enjoyable days surfing and a few young kids rocked up after school and what was noticeable, they all had good carving rhythmic old school styles.
It's as though there is an Angourie school of style, strongly influenced by Nat and Baddy and the wave of course.

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mike oxhard Saturday, 22 Jul 2023 at 4:13pm

haven't been this stoked on an edit for a long while, pure style and nostalgia on some absolute gem equipment

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Solitude Saturday, 22 Jul 2023 at 9:48pm

Bryce rates Ryan Burch as ‘the best surfer in the world’ . He says he loves others like Rasta, John John, etc but qualifies his statement by saying Burch is a total freak on all equipment and seamlessly transitions between them.

Looking at Bryce’s surfing, I would argue that there’s nearly no one who can do what he can do.

These fellas; Torren, Rasta, etc - it boggles my mind at their ability. I believe they could’ve taken it anywhere they liked (ie comp scene,big waves). The fact they chose the paths they chose in no way diminishes this elite waterman quality and sheer talent.

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Jelly Flater Saturday, 22 Jul 2023 at 10:05pm

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mugofsunshine Sunday, 23 Jul 2023 at 10:33pm

Those Burch boards remind me of favourite old trucks where your rubbers are almost gone but your head, legs and hips know what to do.

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the-u-turn Tuesday, 1 Aug 2023 at 5:38pm

...yes, it's a ripper. But, ten points for the intro, Stu. Prose at its best.

However, some things can't be avoided, and DNA is one of them. In the very first wave of this film, Bryce cuts back then cross steps, and as sure as a forensic scientist can link your atoms to your ancestors, so too is that movement an unmistakable rendition of the man who begat him.

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larry01 Thursday, 3 Aug 2023 at 8:39am

That edit will be timeless.

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belly Thursday, 3 Aug 2023 at 9:39pm

Very nice production.
A lot of rights.
A lot of alternative craft.
A lot of the home break.
Nice music.
Good ender.