Watch: Tim Bonython (Sort Of) // Deadmans
If you'll recall the intro to Tim Bonython's last video, a Top Deck-fashioned meteorologist - milk chocolate hair, dark chocolate beard - waxed lyrical about big swells hitting Australia's east and west coasts at the same time.
It was a nightmare for Tim - a Bonightmare even. Can't be in both places at once; so where to film?
As it happened, Tim went west, filmed the Right, while the East Coast pumped away from Tim's gaze.
Good old TB has made it work but. He's gathered a few guest programmers: Cal Fawle, Declan Clowdor, Scotty Williams, and Sky Monkey, and edited their footage into a red hot Deadies edit. Even cut it with some stoner rock from Robot God.
The wide selection includes a few waves I hadn't yet seen from the multi-day event. Sam Jones' twilight jam at 3:17 being a highlight - one of many.
Comments
very impressive
"top deck fashioned TM."
Great footage. I am 70 now (still surfing shorties) but was one of a handful of surfers who pioneered surfing WInki in the late 60's and Deadman's in the early 70's. The equipment and commitment of the surfers have come a long way since then, but the step and that fabulous barrel over the first and second shelf at Winki looks just like I remember it.
Nice! That crowd must seem mad compared to what you saw in those days. I even remember dreamy smaller days at Winki in the early 90s when I surfed alone with my brother or one other. That would never happen now.
Aruba is the name of my yacht. I moved North in 1988 because I thought the crowds were getting crazy then. Pre-legropes there were only a few surfers and kneeboarders who surfed Winki. I can remember OH Sundays at Winki on my own or with one other when there were 30 or 40 at the Bower. Had hundreds of surfs at Winki with just my kneeboarding brother or one of his mates (Steve Zoeller or one of the Ware brothers) out. Also remember a couple of very solid days (like the video above) with just Simon Anderson and me out. We were blessed to have surfed through those years. Cheers, Mark (Greezy)
How good are drone shots these days?
That was sick. Hard charging legends and no skis to be seen finally.
And no whiney, snaking Hawaiian blow-ins
That was an epic edit.
Nice stoner rock.
Amazing, in tune local surfing… intersected with horrifying slapstick wipeouts by the best of them.
That step is brutal. It looks like you can very rarely get over it in one piece you’d have to cross that spot before or after it collapses, but sometimes the wave just isn’t positioned to let you do that.
There’s no time to prepare for it like shippies.
Hence those awful take downs.
The one at 6.:38 takes the cake.
Terrifying!
Oh yeah, that's good viewing, farken insane spot with that raw swell.
Endless peelers at Deserts, they're good, chaos and carnage at Deadmans, I can't turn away. Better than the Wedge and there's a mutant inside it.
Great scenic overview, showing the climb down the ravine and the jump off , and the different crowd shots and perspectives of wave shots.
The music definitely had the vibe of a heavy wipeout on the wrong wave, yelling in pain!
that was great.