Raglan Surf Report has once again taken aim at the world of surf skating with its unique brand of anarchic comedy mixed with absurdism. The surf training devices have been ridiculed by the channel a few times in the past, for both the significant amount of wiggling involved in riding them, and the defensive attitude many riders adopt. This time, RSR creator Luke Cederman takes it one step further and invents a new type of land-based “surfing”– surf bodyskating.
“Someone once said to me, if you want to be the best at something, be the only person in the world doing it” says Cederman in the sketch, “and that’s why I started surf bodyskating.” He delivers the line with blacked out front teeth and a lisp, presumably from smashing his face on concrete ramps while practicing his art.
That “art” would be covering himself in KY jelly and sliding around a skate park on his stomach, which is depicted with the delightfully low-budget practical effect of a sort of Luke Cederman effigy being dragged around on a string. The whole thing is, of course, very silly, which only adds to the sketch’s charm.
“It sucks, because there are people that are really dismissive and ridicule the way that I surf, but it shouldn’t really matter, whether you’re riding a three-foot wave in the ocean or a three-foot piece of inanimate cement,” Cederman continues. “At the end of the day, we’re all just trying to have fun and express ourselves in different ways.”
You know what? He’s got a point.
