#gripping stuff

[lowpawly]

eagerly checking if there is a new chainsaw man chapter yet so I can see if yoru really does fulfill her promise on cutting denjis penis off

[pointless-letters]

Ending 2023 on a real thrill ride. BRACE YOURSELVES.

[leaveharmony]

Listen I’m not usually like this...in fact this may be the first and only time...but those pants are uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh something

[pointless-letters]

Or - counter-theory - your neighbour spotted you throwing snails over the fence and threw them back?

(ps maybe don’t be a dick to the snails in the future)

[bang-up-to-the-elephant]

Oh wow what do I do now I really should take a break from Game of Thrones, but Series 3 is already all there.... I could watch it. All of it. ABAKJ what do I do

[ganatronic]

I've been in the process of transferring some old VHS-only surf video from the '80s and '90s to DVD, and then encoding them to mp4/mov. So far I've uploaded 9 of them to megavideo (when I tried youtube, the robots were muting the audio due to "possibly copyright blahblah"). I'll be posting them here.

Megavideo is not perfect - there's a pop-up when you press play, and if you are an unpaid user then you can only watch 72 minutes per day before you have to take a 30-minute break (luckily, all but one of these is shorter than that). But, I looked at all the options, and it seems to be the best for this.

As far as I know, all of these videos were previously unavailable online. And - needless to say - I'm sharing these for not-for-profit reasons.

This first video is from 1989. It's called "Gripping Stuff." I was awarded this video in, uh, 1992, because I got the "Worst Wipe-out" when I was attending Davy Smith's Surf Academy. I pearled hard at backside Rincon and snapped the nose off my board. It's the first surf video I owned.

This was produced in Australia, and features a lot of classic New South Wales footage, including beautiful Kirra (one of the nicest-looking waves around), and some islands off the coast. It also includes a lot of footage from Hawaii. Notably, Tom Curren and Tom Carroll tearing up the North Shore during their hey-day as contest surfers. It also includes lots of shots of bikini babes.

The movie is narrated (though there is no plot). The angle is that it features a lot of "cutting edge, hard and fast" surfing. And it has a rad soundtrack - mostly, as far as I can tell, lesser-known Australian bands from the '80s. There's also some Joe Satriani. I'm pretty sure the movie is titled "Gripping Stuff" because it's sponsored by Gorilla Grip. Overall, the surfing is fantastic, and this is a solid movie. And on a timeline, it covers the period after twin-fin shortboard surfing when dudes and their tri-fins were really tearing it up, but before Slater and others (just a couple years later) started getting really tricky with it. Enjoy! More to come soon.

Also, I strongly believe that these videos become more enjoyable after a few viewings. I recommend 5 viewings! Then, you learn to expect the action, and you can focus more on the individual moves and styles.