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Surf journalist catches secret screening of forbidden surf film!

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Surf journalist catches secret screening of forbidden surf film!

“I was expecting to catch 68-year-old man cracks
but instead got a once-in-a-lifetime experience.”

What a
haul. Five, or such, days ago, I left the left coast and
flew across America’s red innards to its right one, Orlando,
Florida to be specific. The purpose, as our Derek Hynd’s Missing
Fins poetically described, was a mini podcast tour with David Lee
Scales comprising one night in Jax Beach with the Kelly Slater of
longboarding, 11x Duct Tape Invitational champion Justin Quintal,
and his fabled shaper Ricky Carroll. The second in Charleston,
South Carolina with Jamie Foxx’s best friend Cam Richards and his
equally fabled father/shaper Kelly.

I drove a Rivian and fell in love.

There were more fantastic moments than I
can adequately describe now. Being with The People™, hearing
stories, living, laughing, loving. The aforementioned DHMF a complete
highlight but can you guess how he looks/general vibe
etc.? It defied my wildest expectations but I won’t spoil the
surprise for you.

You will be able to watch both soon but I
must Rivian race to the end of the adventure. A cherry on top. Two
nights at the best-in-class Florida Surf Film Festival. This
quarter’s offering had to highly-anticipated pictures. South
African big waver Chris Bertish’s never-before-attempted stand-up
paddleboard across the Atlantic from Africa to the Caribbean (which
inspired me to explore the idea of attempting to rollerblading from
tip to bottom of Florida) and forbidden fruit.

Sam George’s Hollywood Don’t Surf.

Now, I recall seeing the trailer to this
documentary forever ago (it first screened at Cannes in 2010) and
addled myself into thinking I had also actually seen the movie
itself.

Lowcountry and behold, it has never been
released and only seen once there (where it was also screened on
beach to much applause and whistles and huzzahs from Frenchmen)
plus nowhere else.

Taboo drupe.

Sam, of course, would be present and
you’re no stranger to surfing’s preeminent voice here, here, here, here, etc. so I
assumed “the most slappable face in surfing” would add but one more
notch to crooked nose. The actual meeting occurred at a New Symrna
beachfront pool. George marching up with a gregarious “Hey!” The
only thing I could mutter was “I’m sorry I’m a dick. I can’t help
it.”

“You don’t say that…” he warmly responded
while shaking my hand.

His Buddha-like nature shining bright,
bouncing off his buffalo bone fish hook pendant.

The last time I had seen Sam George in
person was in 2002 right after returning from a Yemen trip he had
partially funded by fronting money for a feature in Surfer
Magazine, which he was editor-in-chiefing. We had brought him a tin
of legendary Yemeni honey along with a box of film slides.

He told me, these 23 years later, that he
still keeps the empty tin on the shelf.

We chatted for a bit and then he ran to
the venue to prepare for his big night. I followed some few hours
later, to Daytona Beach’s News-Journal Center, chatted with more
People™, then found my seat.

Hollywood Don’t Surf did not
disappoint.

Tracking the history of how the movie
industry has totally messed up the representation of surfing, from
Gidget to Surf’s Up, it was filled with some of the laugh-out-loud
funniest minutes of any surf movie I have ever watched. Absolutely
hilarious moments. Quinten Tarantino, Steven Spielberg, John
Milius, Jan-Michael Vincent, Gary Busey, a bikini’d Nia Peeples,
Frankie Avalon and more grant best-ever interviews

It gets crazy bloated, the Big Wednesday
chapter should have been its own whole film. And, at this point, I
properly loathe a Stacy Peralta talking head. But it also has real
heart, though you, yourself, will likely never get to experience.
Licensing, or some such, troubles.

And so here. I was expecting to catch
68-year-old man cracks but instead caught a once-in-a-lifetime
experience. George made me promise I’d stay to the end of the
credits after a long, long five days on the road, because there was
a special surprise. It was the least I could do to oblige and I’ll
fully spoil it for you here. It’s Frankie Avalon singing Sam George
a Beach Blanket song.

If it ever screens again, I recommend
attending.

You can listen to a further
extrapolations here.

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