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From brains behind Korduroy.tv comes a staycation surfari epic on zero dollars making their own boards, bamboo rickshaws, solar cookers, and hobo stoves, surfers Ryan Burch and Cyrus Sutton set off on a thirty mile, eight day walk through San Diego, CA. But what begins as a guide to taking a minimalist surfing journey, quickly becomes an examination of freedom vs alienation.

After a decade strong career at the top of the game, Ben Player took his first world title at the Bonzai Pipeline in Hawaii 2005. However most post-victory jibe from Rival Damian King, would sour Players first world title. No event wins on the tour that year had given King a reason to dismiss the accomplishment as mere luck and sow doubt in Players own mind. Two years of refinement fueled by those words helped Player find pure form, winning back to back IBA events at Shark Island and Arica Chile. Before hitting the Canary Islands with his closest threat, Amaury Laverhne to own the finale at Confital and nail his second world title. The Ben Player Project records this period of freesurfing sessions and world tour commitments for Player, earning respect from his peers as the best high-performance rider in the world. Filmed on HD and directed by Waldron Bros Productions and Murray Bell, a new level of production is set with smooth studio transitions and animated motion graphics.

Passionately sprouted from the seeds of surfing, Surf Into Yoga with Rochelle Ballard is an instructional yoga video that encourages a growing consciousness of mind, body, spirit, and the footprints we leave on this planet. The liquid energy of the ocean and inspiration from her surfing guides us into the power of yoga, and the essence of Hawaii. Featuring music by Jack Johnson, John Swift, Donavon Frankentreiter and Kai Walsh.

After a decade of bitter rival status, Kelly Slater and Andy Irons come together and surf off their differences. Nobody was expecting this trip to happen. To get two seemingly mortal enemies to agree to sequester themselves on a tiny island with a half-dozen cameramen, a Hollywood interviewer capable of conjuring up tears during any interview, and an in-the-know magazine staff waiting with bated breath seemed like a ridiculous notion. Despite hectic schedules, preconceived notions, and the most heated rivalry in modern surf history, somehow it all came together. The end result was a ten-day purge of feelings, emotional baggage, dispelling rumors, talking it out, and a burying of the hatchet once and for all. Oh, we nearly forgot to mention that the waves were insane!

Fresh Fruit For Rotten Vegetables is a fast paced, tightly edited, action packed surf film with an equally complimentary hi-bred sound track. The cast consists of some of the very best longboarders in the world, riding all types of surfboards. That includes traditional single fin logs, tri-fin high performance Longboards, alternative and retro shortboards (hulls, eggs, fish, quads,and twin-fins), alaia's, and state of the art shortboards. Filmed in Australia, California, Hawaii, Indonesia, and Mexico in Hi-Definition, "Fresh Fruit For Rotten Vegetables" will keep your finger on the rewind button.

A flowing, style heavy movie, with the right music, a masterpiece! Joel Tudor, Alex Knost, Brendan White, C.J.Nelson, Dylan Jones, Josh Farberow, Keefe Gargan, Oliver Parker, Zander Hartman, etc.

After the lingering nip in the air from our frosty winter in southern california, who wants to be warm and snugly, go to the beach and get emotional about south swells? Lets all whip up a cold pitcher of fresh squeezed lemonade, drag the boobtube onto the back porch and gather the kiddies around. Here comes Alex Knost, Kassia Meador, Ratboy, Jared Mell, Tyler Warren, Mitch Abshere, Scotty Stopnik, James Reed, and Jai Lee! New film from Wyatt Seaverns and Mitch Abshere.

Hanging Five is a film that follows five artists who all happen to be surfers. The film documents their work and looks at different aspects of their lives and how those experiences have impacted their work. The film also looks at why the surf culture embraces and supports the arts. Someone said that if Dr. Seuss surfed, he'd be like Andy Davis. He's been drawing, doodling, and painting from a young age. His art captures the thrill and essence of the surfing experience. A very genuine and kind soul. Born in Ecuador, Wolfgang Blochs family has instilled in him an appreciation and respect for the arts from a young age. With much of his work consisting of found objects, his paintings are hauntingly beautiful. A graduate from ArtCenter College of Design, Wolfgang worked as a designer for various companies before plunging into the fine art world. Alex Knost is a true renaissance man with his art encompassing painting, photography, filmmaking and music. Not only is he one of the most famous longboarders in the world, he's also the front man for his band-The Japanese Motors. They recently finished touring with Modest Mouse. Tyler 'Pickle' Warren is a young Orange County surfer and is now becoming a well-known artist, whose work has been exhibited from Japan to Brazil. His work is stylized with deep richness and lighthearted charm with many within the surf community becoming collectors and fans. Julie Goldstein is from San Diego and her textured pieces blend fabric and acrylic with an artistic flow and spirit to her ocean homage.

In the early 1970s, Alby Falzon was a young surfer, photographer and magazine publisher who decided that he wanted to make a really beautiful film about surfing. Scraping together just enough money for petrol and a few rolls of 16mm film, Alby began periodically driving up the north coast of New South Wales with a couple of surfing buddies and ended up creating one the classic surf movies of all time -Morning of the Earth. A new documentary by Fil Baker, The Life and Films of Alby Falzon, explores the story behind the making of Morning of the Earth and the dozens of other films Alby made all over the world. This 44 minute autobiographical documentary is driven by an eclectic mix of contemporary and often ethereal music, playing over four decades of priceless archival footage and photographs. Alby is an intimate, engaging and often hilarious storyteller, who provides an insight into his life and films in a way that has never been seen before. The story begins with the young, Falzon grommet taking Box Brownie photographs of his friends, when a chance meeting results in an apprenticeship with Australian surf filmmaker and publisher Bob Evans. Alby worked for Bob for a number of years, the highlight being his first overseas trip to Hawaii, where he captured footage of the massive Winter swell of 1969. In this part of the film, Alby debunks a long held surfing myth by revealing three photographs of Greg Noll, dropping down the face of the so-called, biggest wave ever ridden. Not long after returning from Hawaii, Alby tells the story of how he joined forces with David Elfick and John Witzig to start Tracks Australias first surfing newspaper, which still exists today (though in magazine form). It is in this period of the early 1970s, in between issues of the newspaper, that Alby would go up the coast to film friends and surfers at little known breaks. As the film reveals, David Elfick eventually becomes involved in the film as producer. Alby recalls the trip to Bali where he discovered Uluwatu, how the original soundtrack came together, and his complete shock at the films theatrical success. The Life and Films of Alby Falzon continues with the story behind Alby and David Elficks next venture, Crystal Voyager, a film about the eccentric surfer, boat builder and inventor George Greenough. The making of this film has a most remarkable tale about David Elfick and what was one of the biggest bands in the world at the time -Pink Floyd. From here, the documentary turns a corner into an exotic period of Albys adventurous life that is little known in the surfing world. What began as a one-off documentary about the spiritual gathering of millions of pilgrims in India, known as the Khumba Mela, turned into dozens of films about religious festivals and cultures all around the world. Apart from the fascinating insight Albys camera gives us about the people from far eastern countries like Tibet and Burma, in this section of the film we learn much about the spirituality of Alby Falzon. The documentary then returns to the surfing films Alby made in the 1990s, featuring some of the best surfers in the world at that time. We then see some fantastic surfing and natural landscape imagery in a film called Globus, which Alby made just a few years ago with renowned cinematographer, Jeff Hornbaker. The Life and Films of Alby Falzon concludes in the present day at the tranquil home on Albys 60 acre property, where he cares for and feeds injured wildlife, before loading up his boards and driving to the beach for a surf. And it seems that the Morning of the Earth lifestyle he so expertly captured in the early 1970s, is still very much a part of the man today.

110% Surfing Techniques Volume 2 is packed full of tips for high performance surfing. This comprehensive, easy to use coaching tool consists of 20 separate sections, where the action is split into Advanced Moves and Key Techniques. Advanced moves use detailed breakdowns of how to perform turns at the highest level; including forehand tube rides, snaps, off the tops, white-water climbs and how to adapt your bottom turn to suit the top turn. The Key Techniques section will help you to improve your overall surfing, demonstrating how to create your own board speed, master heavy drops, improve cutbacks, make fast waves, throw the tail out, improve take off, catch more waves, perform full rail carves and more. The video is presented in the regular stance. Slow motion and split screen is used to highlight correct techniques against common mistakes. Land, water and board cam angles are used to help explain the tips. Filmed on location in the England, France, South Pacific and Hawaii. Featuring high performance surfing from the likes of Pancho Sullivan, Taylor Knox and Josh Kerr. Including some incredible board cam footage of Ian Battrick in Indonesia.

Winner of the Best Emerging Filmmaker (for Dave Arnold and Tyrone Lebon) and the Best Original Score Awards at the prestigious X-Dance Film Festival 2009, Utah, USA. Mengejar Ombak is a documentary feature that offers a close and personal insight into the life of a young and very talented Indonesian surfer, Dede Suryana. The film follows Dede as he embarks on his first serious season on the World Qualifying Series (WQS) -where he has been touted to become the first Asian to qualify for the World Championship Tour (WCT). This upcoming season will be the most important point in Dedes career to date; will he obtain the results he desires? Or will Dede be temped to walk away from the money and focus on his true passion of free-Surfing? Opening in Dedes hometown of Cimaja, a small fishing village in Southwest Java, the film follows Dede as he travels across 3 continents, and explores the dualities that exist within Dede's life; a Muslim from a disciplined and traditional background, a pro-surfer sponsored by a large American company, an outsider in the predominantly Hindu Island of Bali, and a young man very recently exposed to the Western world. These many, often conflicting parts of Dedes life, challenge his belief system, and force him to constantly define his identity. How will he respond to new places and cultures, the volatile situation in Indonesia, financial gain and the growing attention he receives? Mengejar Ombak is not merely a simplistic portrayal of good time travel or competition with winners and losers, nor is it a naive tale of small-town heroes against the villains of globalization. Rather it is an insight into the life of a young man, trying to assimilate the challenges to his faith and identity, a personal journey that gives us a wider vision of the many changes occurring in developing countries today.

What happens if you put seven of the finest British and Irish surfers on a boat for 21 Days in some of the world's most perfect waves? 21 Days Later -Mentawais follows seven of Britain and Irelands finest surfers on a 3 week boat trip around the Mentawai Islands off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, home to some of the most perfect waves in the world! Featuring some incredible sessions at a variety of epic spots such as Macaronis, HTs, E-Bay, Lances Left, Pit Stops, Bank Vaults and more. Learn about the spots and share the surfers experience as they embark on the trip of a lifetime. I think its every surfers dream, isnt it, to spend 3 weeks on a boat with perfect waves, good friends, good times....I didnt want to go home -Alan Stokes. Featuring Reubyn Ash, Lee Bartlett, Easkey Britton, Robyn Davies, Sam Lamiroy, Mike Morgan and Alan Stokes. Also including a host of international professional surfers we met along the way.

Lolipop is an autoproduced film, jumping into eastern Caribbean surfing world. Exploring the islands at best season, featuring local top riders and guests scoring the fickle surf breaks of the area. Locations: Guadeloupe, Barbados, Trinidad, Dominica, St Lucia, St Vincent, Martinique, St Martin, St Barthelemy, Montserrat, Anguilla, Antigua and more...

Spectacular Adventures chronicles two years in the lives of some of the East Coast's best surfers as they travel via land, air and sea sampling some of the most majestic wavescapes the world has to offer, all the while not taking themselves too seriously. Shot on location in stunning HD throughout various Caribbean and Central American outposts, the Galapagos Islands, Israel, North Carolina, France, Bali, and capping it off with an epic 16 man boat trip in Panama -it's a spectacular adventure! 2009 ESM Video of The Year

This surfing documentary plunges below the surface to find out what happened to 1970s legend Michael Peterson, whose incredible talent and supreme confidence in the water was rivaled only by his extreme shyness on dry land. Director Jolyon Hoff takes us back almost four decades, when Australia was in the midst of turmoil much like that in the United States. What with Vietnam War protests, drugs, and a back-to-the-land movement, surfing was an outsider sport that drew those searching for a simper life. Things didn't turn out the way the everyone had hoped, though. Despite the spirit of the time, consumerism continued and surfing turned mainstream. Michael Peterson, it turns out, was schizophrenic, and his condition might well serve as a metaphor for the era. This film will be of most interest to those passionate about surfing and its history. But it'll also draw in viewers who are interested in counterculture, the ocean, and mental illness. The environmental themes are subtle, but it's hard to resist the call of the crashing ocean.