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LONGWAVE Tidal Bore Surfing Film

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Tuesday, Jan 17, 2006

I said on the news desk entry for this date that I'd been slotted away editing and working on the post production of LONGWAVE for eight months. Well the last weblog was about the time when the new and upgraded editing suite arrived last June!
LONGWAVE has been a long time coming and a long time making, the best part of 10 years.

Carrying on from the news desk item of this date for "LONGWAVE buy now", I've got a few things to say that I hope all who read this will take in the vein that it is intended.

It's pretty obvious that the Still Stoked Lifestyle is about living in that way which brings an inner glow of well being, as a result of having fun in ways that do no harm to others. The concept of being stoked is that feeling we all get from the satisfaction of doing something well. To me its based on the view that the best things in life are free.

It's also pretty obvious that Still Stoked is a pretty underground business. That's because I come from a time when a lot of guys despised the Corporation and I have'nt changed much.If I could duplicate LONGWAVE and get it to every surf shop in the world, I would. I'd like every surfer on the globe to watch this film and that's the line I take on thelongwave web site.

This is because every surfer comes to dream of surfing the longest wave for the longest time. Apart for the few this will always remain a dream. Many will make compromises and many will live on in ignorance, resigned to sit out in the lineup with woeful faces.

LONGWAVE demonstrates once and for all that surfing on tidal bores is the ultimate longwave surfing experience. Better bore surfing films will no doubt follow but none are likely to make the point better than the footages to be found on the LONGWAVE DVD. The reason being that no commercial film maker or the surfing industry will tolerate the film making format that I pursue at STILL STOKED PRODUCTIONS. I enjoy the privilege and indulgence of doing my thing my way. The products either float or flounder but they never drown.

The stoke of making something from an original thought and sharing it with the world in a way that brings some money back, is the circle that makes me still stoked. Danny Cartwright coined the words "still stoked" in 1997, they say it all.

I believe totally that LONGWAVE will show surfers worldwide that the ultimate longwave surfing experience is out there, always available for the intrepid, always there for the dreamers and always there for the few that live for it and do it for the rest of us. To surf a wave for as long and as far as possible, that is tidal bore surfing. I hope that surfers everywhere buy it watch it and are thrilled by it!

Posted on Tuesday, Jan 17, 2006 at 18:36:38