At four am we were up, towing out what’s now known as “The Dock” in Bali for this concept shoot. We asked ourselves, what does the future look like? A cashless society? Self-driving cars? We’ll leave the wavepools for Kelly Slater and co. Instead, we envisioned lineup where you don’t have to paddle. Which turns out to be a rather dangerous affair.
“The dock’s been scary,” said Ozzie Wright. “At one stage I just came up, got my board and saw it coming right at me. I like the chaos of it. The whole time everybody was like, “Where are we going!? Where are we going!? That was the fun bit. I kept thinking what if the tip was on the beach at a little shorey? No paddling, just run out, jump on a wave surf it to the beach then run back out and jump on another one. That’d be so much fun.”
“It would just kill you if it hit you, yeah?” asked Noa Deane, after the fact. “What’s it weigh? Half a tonne? When it wears a wave on the head it kicks like a snake. Like, Balaram jumped up and went six feet in the air. Then he landed on the wire, so sketchy. It whips right at the end because it’s connected to a cable which adds extra tension.”
Now that the tension’s relieved, we invite you to loosen your belt and enjoy “The Dock” as ridden by Noa, Ozzie, Yago Dora, Mitch Coleborn, Balaram Stack and Imaikalani Devault. After all, what’s fun without a little heightened heart rate?
Directed by Sam McIntosh
Edited by Dan Scott
Creative Direction by Shinya Dalby
Produced by Richie Olivares
Oceanic Logistics by Tom Screen.
Executive producer: Brad Dougherty
Cinematography by:
Dan Scott
Jesse Little
Jimmy “Jazz” Kinnaird
Scott Stinnett
Tom Carey
Music (in order of appearance):
The Past Tense by Infinite Bisous
Falling Down Stairs by Distractor.
Surfers (in order of appearance):
Noa Deane
Ozzie Wright
Yago Dora
Imaikalani Devault
Balaram Stack
Mitch Coleborn
Thanks to Alexandre Lamoureux, Philippe Gosselin, Thomas Taatjes, Rizal Tandjung, Made Adi Putra, Betet Merta & Muklis Anwar.
Big thanks to CanDock for making the shoot possible.
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