Watch: Twenty Two // Anne Dos Santos
You may recall Anne Dos Santos as the smiling Amazonian - all 5'4" of her - launching into wild Deadmans two years back. Amazingly, it wasn't even the biggest Deadies she'd surfed.
Since then, Annie, who's 22-years old, has been broadening her horizons, chasing competitive dreams with the odd spot of adventure travel.
The video above is an example of the latter, as she teamed up with Shannon Hayes - also 22, title sorted - and concertinaed a three week Indo trip out to a two-month stay. Though they didn't consistently score good waves, the film is as much about being young and free and riding the frontier with a like-minded friend.
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That was really fun to watch.
Packing 'em and shredding 'em and a nice travelogue to tie it together.
Good surfer & nice clip.
Wonder why she would include a wave appearing to show her blatantly dropping in?
It was the best part of the clip.
Nice sentiment I agree Rabbits68 good surfing !
Bet the boyfriends at home were pissed when they saw the waves they missed .
My Favourite place!
Young ladies with gumption. Loved it.
Started to watch it however unlike the rest of the reviews here I couldn't cope with the US attitude and accent. They are a different race of people and stand apart from the rest of the english speaking world, not bad, just so different I can't relate to it.
The US?
Shannon is from the Gold Coast, Anne originally Brazil but has lived in Oz most of her life.
Yeah fair enough my fault and I apologise I just started watching it and tuned out and just pegged it as Cali space cadet material everything is beautiful, loving and smiley. Maybe it is living and surfing in Victoria you just don't come across that many female surfers with that attitude, they are pretty hard core with an attitude to match.
It'd help, before putting down Annie as a space cadet or 'not hardcore', to see how she surfs in big waves.
There are few females, in Victoria, in the world, who go as hard as she does.
See also Shippies, Jaws, Depot, Pipe.
EDIT: For that matter, there are few males too.
It was nothing to do with how she goes which is HARD or how talented she is (which is very) just the generally smiley, sunny attitude everything is wonderful and positive attitude the film exuded to me. As I said I didn’t watch all of it as I was put off from the word go so It sounds like I misrepresented her. I have met a lot of the types of people, overwhelmingly from USA west coast where they live in this wonderful bubble where everything is flowers and sunshine and very little thought or knowledge or informed opinion of Gaza, Ukraine, the tax system - the rest of the world which has zero to do with their surfing prowess. She may not be anything like this it is just the way it came across to curmudgeonly old me.
Diagnosis... a case of "Grumpy old man syndrome" go back to bed and get some more sleep -;) .
That was pretty good remember the young lady isn't talking to me or you (old man) but being an amazing role model for other females what's that saying
"Go girl"
Absolutely rips great surfing.
You nailed it I am grumpy and I am old!
@Memlasurf.
Geez, what’s it like down at the chess club on a cold Tuesday night, enthralling it seems.
What does it take to make you happy ?
How refreshing to see young people stoked on life with nothing but gay abandon for some part of their life. We are a long time dead!!
We’ve all been there before, haven’t we. Fair dinkum. AW
Give it a rest I have explained myself lets move on.
Exactly…… A.W. one comment too many!
Mine or yours ? You simply added another one with your rebuttal. Joking!!! AW
Can tube ride better than most of the CT.
Looked like a really fun trip. Well done
Great little clip, refreshing to see a chick so stoked on surfing that she can surf in shorts instead of the mandatory G-string to get attention.
Maybe she would old-dog. If someone payed her enough.
I know I would.
Jokes folks.
Actually met her in the water surfing a back beach in Crescent Heads area, on our second stop on trip around Oz in 2022. A few of us sharing a peak and just started chatting, she mentioned she was hoping to do the pro thing and was asking about our trip plans etc, I was talking about my daughter who is just starting to tentatively get into surfing Really warm friendly young chick.
Wish her well...
Great clip girls - feels independent and authentic to me
I have younger teenage daughters and it fantastic for them to have young women showing them that
life's a great adventure if you decide to approach it that way
Are u our next gen femine version of ishka and torryn?
Anne also looks to me like she's could match or perhaps netter our 8 time female world champ in backside tube riding and is harder charger in waves of consequence than our current male world champ - and heaps better than me too.. which makes you want to get out there and keep tryin to get better
keep going girls and good luck
what a smile ....a sponsors dream girl
Absolutely rips in the surf and in attitude!! Agree about her rattling the cage on tour, got the smile without the Poo stance.
Anne is great, loved Ben's music. But Shannon! great film.
(These humble, intimate freesurf films featuring Annes and Tahlijas add a whole level of content to the world, surfers like it, non-surfers like it. Really lovely. Does anyone know if Shannon carries much in the way of gear, eg. are those 'super 8'-looking bridging shots done in post, or does she carry a variety of stuff?)