No Corporate Surf Porn

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Being a filmmaker, a habitual loud mouth dissenter, and a bit of a loose cannon, I am not a fan of what is known in the insular world of the surf-industry complex as “surf porn." 


Certain corporations create and market surf porn films in order to promote their brand and their "athletes." As the colorful Glenn Hening has loudly complained, and I've quoted him here before: (Glenn is a fellow loose cannon) 


"The surf industry is just the clothing industry with a good hook." 


Corporate surf porn usually consists of perfect surfers in perfect, exotic locations surfing perfect waves. This is repeated for up to one hour (or longer in the worst versions of itself). Very little if any character development occurs in the film. We learn nothing about the "stars" in this wannabe sports documentary. We watch them surf perfect waves, perfectly, to the tune of loud and repetitive music, until the credits roll. No narrative. No plot. Just surfing with a decidedly pornographic nature. 


Please join me in standing up to the soul-less surf corporations of the world: NO CORPORATE SURF PORN.