Mason, Coco and Mike Ho and friends just having a blast in waves of myriad quality in Hawaii. That’s the thing with surfing innit: it’s meant to be fun. As long as the wave gives you another oompf to stand up and go that’s all that matters.
This is the call for 2017 make it the year of fun!
Filmed by Rory Pringle & water clip by Brent Bielmann
No faffing here just solid Nias and some deft tube threading from Diego Santos.
The Thurso Surf Festival at the back end of 2016 saw big swells and changing winds for days resulting in a pretty epic event with pumping waves at Thurso and Sandside. Despite making the final, Jayce Robinson still found time to search the north coast of Scotland for tubes. So with an abundance of swell, favourable winds, and perfect, heavy, slabbing reefs around every corner, here’s what happened Between Heats… and a few Qs with JR and filmmaker Mr B.
There seems to be a lot of different spots on this video, how long were you there?
Jayce: Yeah we were lucky, we stayed were there for a week and managed to score all those epic little slabs and also a few other waves that didn’t feature in the clip. Whilst Mr.B was shooting the Juniors in the contest there were a couple of other cheeky sessions at secret spots (as seen in the current issue of the mag).
Some of those waves look fairly shallow, any heavy wipeouts, close calls, bumps or bruises?
Jayce: They are all very shallow, I had a few falls which I thought for sure i’m going to hurt myself, but as fate has it we all came away with no broken bones or even bruises. It does help having all that rubber on mind, if I were surfing in board shorts I think it would be a different story .
What’s your favourite thing about surfing in Scotland?
Jayce: I still never know what to expect from Scotland, every time I go there i find myself surprised with how changeable the waves can be on different swell directions etc. Theres also a loads of spots that I haven’t surfed up there yet, so it adds to the excitement factor of surfing new waves.
There’s a lot of water footage in this clip – any reason?
Mr B: The waves are perfect for shooting water and I pretty much jump in whatever chance I can. Plus you can’t beat Scottish Winter light, the sun’s always quite low in the sky making great colours in the water (when it’s out that is!).
What was the funniest, scariest and most annoying moment of the trip?
Mr B: Funniest may have been the morning we got there, we drove through the night to get in the water at dawn, the sun was just getting up, they were paddled out just before me as I got my housing ready, then the car locked itself with the key in there! Luckily I had all my wetsuit and cam gear out, so swam out to shoot, but had to tell Jayce I’d just locked us all out of the car! After a couple hours surfing it took us about 45 minutes to break back into the car!
Scariest was possibly on a small day at a shallow little slab, there’s one clip in the film where Jayce gets taken out by a bit of a thick lip, I was stood in about ankle deep water and had to run and dive through the back of the wave, nothing too bad but wasn’t sure how bad Jayce had been hit cos he copped it to the head and went down awkward, was also pretty funny.
Annoying moment – probably when the waves are pumping and the sun sets and you know it’s still pumping all night!
See more on this trip in the current issue of Carve.
Video Mr B. Stills Sharpy.
Follow Jayce on IG at @jaycerobinson
Mr B: @mrbphotouk
A gurgler keen to remove fins and flesh ©Sharpy
Bagpipe drainer ©Sharpy
Deep blue, cold, heavy and occasionally makeable ©Sharpy
A girthy one ©Sharpy
First waves of the session: crushed it! Third wave (down below) didn’t crush it… ©Sharpy
Frosty fun in the Canadian wilderness with Pete Devries. How much fun does this joint look?
Dylan Palmer is one of those tirelessly working filmers that gives you the good stuff to gawp at on your phone. He’s done a compilation of edits and there’s some cracking stuff in here, including of course that mad man Domke doing things on a skimboard that defy physics and sense. Crack it on and pretend you’re doing some work this afternoon honest guv.
In 2015 I worked for a new East Coast surfing magazine known simply as SIX Magazine. I edited a few dozen videos for them during my time there and now they are no longer in operation. 23 Stitches is a compilation of 23 of my favorite edits that i did with SIX, roughly stitched together for a 55 minute main course. Completed a little over a year ago, this is the first installation of my “Stitches”, I hope you enjoy!
The edits included in 23 Stitches are (in order of appearance)
1) Dos Dias
2) Brad Domke & JOB in Mexico Part 1: Board Swap
3) Brad Domke & JOB in Mexico Part 2: Clown Time & Bull Riding
4) Rob Brown // One Wave in Mainland Mexico
5) Bruce Irons // Three Waves in Mainland Mexico
6) Brian Conley // Spanish Blues
7) RED Pipeline with Kelly Slater, Damien Hobgood, & CJ Hobgood
8) Lucia Power for NECTAR Shades
9) OBX with Cory Lopez & Pete Mendia
10) A Wave in Florida with Oliver Kurtz
11) Rozay Garden // Caribbean with Oliver Kurtz
12) Blake Jones in Nicaragua
13) Blake Jones in Florida
14) Brad Domke in Florida
15) Brad Domke & The Flying Fish
16) OBX with Cory Lopez & Pete Mendia
17) Spit of the Summer at Mexi Pipe
18) Set of the Century // Secret Spot in Mexico
19) Wave of Baron Knowlton’s Life in Mainland Mexico
20) Jamie O’Brien // Days From The Moon
21) Heavy Days At Home // Marcos Hootman
22) Into The Underground // Bruce Irons & Nathan Fletcher in Mainland Mexico
23) Nils Schweizer // Central America / Micronesia / Mexico
The salty sea breeze, warm, lively water, and vibrant natural beauty. Look around. This is Hawaii. #justpassingthrough
The conclusion of #LiveFromTheNorthShore series features Reef Ambassadors Mikala Jones, Kai Otton, Mitch Crews, Kyllian Guerin, Thiago “Shrimpy” Camarao.
Song: “Easy For You To Say”
Artist: Sponsors
Filmed and Edited by Sam Moody
