Because it’s not a competition,so there’s no interest

Duru goes ! Don't count him out.

Apparently no local boats allowed in the channel.

Nightmarish

that silhouette through the lip is chilling

You reckon he should have been swimming for the bottom , and trying to grab the reef, ? Not that I’ve ever been in that situation.

Sounds like the artists and record labels are going to be bypassed, and not much we can do about it.
Do they know what Frank Zappa was on when he wrote his music? I can’t see the relevance to Tim Bonython and Teehapo though

Raising your own lonely dental floss in Montana , nothing like ambition

X 2

Insanely good tube rider amongst a cohort of insanely good tube riders.

Someone* said once "its actually pretty deep out there". Maybe its so hollow that a regular pindrop/ aborted liplauncher just gets instantly spewed out the back as the wave moves on...mostly

I'm a music industry professional and not a pro surfer or industry guy but have been around a minute. I've been racking my brain trying to think of a way to fix this problem and combine my two loves but unfortunately the royalty free behemoth reigns supreme and the audience doesn't seem to care quite enough yet for content creators to find other solutions.

The worst thing is you hear the exact garbage (the same 5 tracks, big drop, claps, vocal wo-oahs) across Nathan Florence, TB, Koa Rothman, JOB and all the main Youtube pundits. Great music elevates great surfing and vice versa, look at Russ Bierke's film or all of the Need / Torren Stuff with bespoke music, Chapter 11 with all the local Cali Punk bands etc. It grabs attention, stays in the zeitgeist and stands the test of time. Here we have one of the most hectic Chopes swells in a few years and its a blip on the radar because it's presented in a format we're all bored of. There's a reason the usual Youtube suspects have been missing the last few swells, it's over cooked in the current format. The issue is the pace of release, if it's not out that week it's dead and if it's not art it's not good enough. Maybe it's time for a muso / surf filmmaker meet and greet.

https://tracksmag.com.au/summer-read-lord-tim
quote (from a year ago):
Tim’s next, long-form project may be his most ambitious yet. He wants to make a new, big-wave movie where the soundtrack is supplied by live musicians. “I want a real feeling of the music,” insists Tim. “If it’s really dramatic and scary, then the music needs to be dramatic and scary. If it’s pumping, it needs to be kind of a real cool electronica… Ideally, I’d love to have someone like Tom Carroll reading out, you know, a 40-second poem to introduce the segment. I’ve actually created the rough cut of what it is, and I’ve shown it to a few people, and we’ve got some really good investors that want to put money into it.”