School of Surf Season One
School Of Surf, a documentary series based on the National Surf League's Red Bull Riders Cup (NSL High School Cup) gives you a detailed inside look at high school surf culture in and out of the water. School Of Surf chronicles the contrast between the blessed beach town surf kids of Southern California to the cold-water warriors of the New Jersey shore. It follows the struggles of your average high school kid looking to carve a place for himself as pro surfer all while trying to graduate school and leave the surf team on a winning note by taking the national championships.
FROM VBS PRODUCER JAKE BURGHART:
When we first heard of this contest we were like, whatever—not interested. Surf contests are boring. Then we got a call from Brad Gerlach, big-wave surfer and one of my childhood heroes. That kinda changed things. We went out to visit Brad in California, and over a few beers he explained his longtime absence from surf contests, saying that he just wasn’t having fun anymore and he wanted to get back to "the essence of surfing." This is where bullshit detectors started to go off. "The essence of surfing," by creating a different contest modeled off of more conventional jock sports? Well yes, and somehow it really works. The Game is totally exciting to watch and alarmingly fun. Even though it's way more competitive and has way more action than the conventional surf contest, it's so much closer to what surfing's about—going out with your friends and having a good time. It also raised a few questions about the surf industry for us, like, why is everything so conservative? Why are conventional contests so boring? Why is it so hard to try something new? Why aren't all surf contests like this? Those sort of questions.
So I dusted off my thruster, paddled out, and made some new friends. After a few months of hanging out with high school kids, surfing their local breaks, playing Ping-Pong in garages, and eating a shit-ton of pizza, we wound up with a bunch of awesome footage of surfing’s next wave of stars. This series is a little look into those characters and a window into what contest surfing could be like if it were just a little more fun.
Watch the entire 3-part series here at VBS.TV
Check out the Trailer:
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