KELLY SLATER'S WAVE

WELL, KELLY DID IT AGAIN, HE DID SOMETHING YOU DIDN'T THINK HE COULD. THEY CREATED A WAVE POOL WITH PERFECT WAVES, WHATS NEXT.... I CANT WAIT TO SEE, I LOVE WHEN PEOPLE CREATE SOMETHING YOU DIDN'T THINK WAS POSSIBLE. THIS IS WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS MOST, NOT WAVE POOLS, BUT PEOPLE WITH DREAMS AND ARE WILLING TO WORK FOR IT, AND NOT JUST PUT PEOPLES DREAMS DOWN TO FEEL BETTER. VERY INSPIRING.

Production; Aether Films (aetherfilms.com) Director: Andrew Mackenzie; Producers: Kyle Bullington & Davis DiLillo; Camera I: Gordon Yould ; Camera II: Seth Naugle; Aerial Cinematography: Davis DiLillo, Kyle Bullington, Andrew Mackenzie Water Cinematography: Daren Vinson Crawford; AC Camera I: Brooks Burgoon; AC Camera II: Jeff Ball, AC Camera III: Josh Hill Production Coordinator: Dana Kurth; DIT: Bruce Schultz; Editing: Gordon Yould & Andrew Mackenzie; Color: Seth Naugle; Music: DARKSIDE

POTTZ...

THERE IS SO MUCH I COULD SAY ABOUT MARTIN POTTER, BUT IT WOULD ONLY BE JUST A DROP IN THE BUCKET OF ALL THE THINGS THAT POTTZ DID FOR SURFING AND HONESTLY THE YOUTH THAT WANTED TO RIDE SURFBOARDS. THE FIRST WORD THAT COMES TO MIND IS RADICAL WITH ABOUT 20 EXCLAMATION POINTS, HIS LIFE WAS RADICAL, TURNED PRO AT LIKE 13 OR SOMETHING CRAZY, FIRST ONE TO GET TOWED INTO A WAVE AT THIRD REEF PIPE, THE FIRST GUY DOING PROPER AERIALS AND BIG ONES, THE FIRST RADICAL SURFER TO WIN A WORLD TITLE. POTTZ WON THE WORLD TITLE IN 89, AND THAT YEAR HE WON ALMOST EVERYTHING, HE WAS AN ANIMAL AND FOR THE FIRST TIME THE JUDGING DECIDED THEY WOULD SCORE HIM ACCORDINGLY, KIDS COMPLAIN NOW THAT THE JUDGING SUCKS, BUT BACK THEN A BUNCH OF SMALL TURNS WOULD BEAT A BIG TURN OR AN AERIAL, THE JUDGES DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WHAT TO DO WHEN HE SURFED, IT WAS ALL NEW. SECONDLY POTTZ WAS RADICAL IN HIS LIFE, HE RAN AT 100 MPH AT EVERYTHING, HE CARRIED AN ATTITUDE THAT STOOD OUT, HE WORE BRIGHT COLORED CLOTHES HAD LONG ROCK AND ROLL HAIR, HE HAD AN EARING, HA, WHICH BACK THEN WAS PRETTY CRAZY, AND HE RODE FOR GOTCHA WHICH WAS THE MOST BADASS BRAND OF THAT TIME. BASICALLY POTTZ CHANGED MORE THAN THE WAY WE SURF BUT THE WAY WE SEE SURFINGS POSSIBILITIES , I DONT THINK PEOPLE GIVE ENOUGH CREDIT FOR THIS, WITHOUT HIM IN HISTORY, SURFERS MAY ALL BE POLITE ATHLETES WHO ADHERE TO EVERY RULE AND WOULD BE RIDING WHITE BOARDS, WHICH WOULD SUCK, CAUSE FLAMES LOOK GOOD ON A SURFBOARD AND I LIKE THAT KIDS THESE DAYS ARE ABLE TO EXPRES THEMSELVES THROUGH THEIR SURFING. THANX POTTZ, IT HAS BEEN VERY ENTERTAINING WATCHING ALL THESE YEARS.

DAVE RASTOVICH - A LEGEND

ITS HARD TO EVEN TELL ALL THE THINGS THAT RASTA DOES FOR THIS PLANET.

HERES A FEW, RASTA IS ONE OF THE BEST SURFERS ON THE PLANET, ON ANY TYPE OF SURFBOARD AND ON ANY TYPE OF WAVE, HE HAS SUCH AN AMAZING BOND WITH THE OCEAN. WHEN HE IS NOT PLAYING IN THE WATER HE IS USUALLY SAVING OUR FRIENDS IN THE OCEAN, HE HAS PADDLED INTO THE KILLING POOLS OF TAIJI JAPAN TO TRY TO STOP THE JAPANESE FROM KILLING DOLPHINS AND WHALES. HE TRAVELS WITH THE SEA SHEPHERD ORGANIZATION AS THEY PATROL THE OCEAN FROM THE PEOPLE TRYING TO HUNT AND KILL WHALES AND OTHER CREATURES. BOTTOM LINE RASTA DOES ALL THE THINGS MOST PEOPLE WANT TO DO. SO, I THINK HE IS A GREAT ROLE MODEL OUT THERE FOR OUR MODERN CULTURE, IF SOMETHING OUT THERE SEEMS TO BE HURTING THIS EARTH OR CREATURES ON IT, THEN GET OUT THERE AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. YOU WILL PROBABLY RUN INTO RASTA, CAUSE HE IS ALREADY DOING IT. ALL I CAN SAY IS THANK YOU DAVE RASTOVICH .