I honestly don’t find much joy in watching surf edits and surf films anymore. Call me a curmudgeon, and I’m not going to name names or bash any one person, but I’d venture to say about 98% of what’s being created all blends into a vanilla flavored pool of “already been done.” There’s certainly a place for three minutes of watching somebody get spat out of minivan-sized barrels, there’s just so much of it that it’s tough to find the stuff that really sticks out.
Storytelling, though…true storytelling takes a backseat to the mundane surf porn genre. And fictional surf docs/films are even harder to find. This is what Nic von Rupp’s after with his Reef Road / My Road Series. It’s a different way to feed you 20 minutes of psycho waves at places like Nias and Kandui.
“While chasing waves around the world, I often meet a bunch of different people,” Nic says. “Most of the times [they’re] surfers like me, sometimes they are just random tourists. But I get to meet some crazy fellow travelers collecting stories wherever they go through, or even gnarly backpackers living the journey in their full essence. The more I travel, the more I’m sure I’ll always find someone that really surprises me. Sometimes I just go by myself wrongly thinking that I’ll be the only one on that mission. Well…this is a story about those who dare lonely into the wild. Just like we surfers would.”
