RIPTIDE #182

[NtripleB]

hmm yeh i agree the trailors made my expectations to high.. i also thought the interview would relate to the next section.. i rekon the little cut out bits kind of showed the viewers that it was a natural interview, on the spot, not premade bullshit

[Boiger]

Great movie, but if you ask me booger movies have gotten to 'arty' and less humorous and exciting.
Just sayin'.

[jpe]

well i dont know about you guys but i thought HFC was a complete waste of time and when the credits rolled up after 30 mins i was completely infuriated.
i mean seriously i get more out of those 3 minute podcasts on the net and after waiting for what, 12 months they have the audacity to release this piece
of repetitive-art-bs. i mean im not trying to hate on mitch here i know lots of the editing is out of his control but really did he even watch the movie himself
before it got released? and yes i totally agree with DJ TEE's comments it does have me shaking my head wondering what could have been and after all of this
i will still probably watch the movie again because i love bodyboarding but just hoping that part 2 will redeem the whole movie. thas my 2-bob

[savage flame]

Wow, after reading all these comments, the hype to see this has gone stale (not in OZ for months, so subscription is sitting at home till I return).
I trust your guys' words for it, so I guess I'm kinda bummed, thought it was going to be amazing. To people that were saying BB films are getting to 'arty', I completely agree. Eg. Thrash'd, Flux etc. really bored me. I mean, they were good, but yeah.

[brad]

After watching the vid its definitly not a bad flick just a bit short with not much variety mostly just WA stuff. The Mike Stewart comment was all about him not wanting to hear the big wave tips from mike when he was young because he wanted nothing to do with big waves they scared the shit out of him! I didn't find it disrespectful at all.

Overall not a classic like the Viking was but not bad at all considering how busy the guy has been building his board brand, I'm sure some real good stuff will be coming from the found team soon.

[caspian]

hah, sounds like this is gonna be interesting! I was pretty psyched for this movie but man, if people on here (considering I'm usually more negative than everyone else) is having a whinge then I'm probably gonna hate it Still keen for it though, wish I was home already to see it.

[adam.s]

Ready for an essay?

I can't believe how much I disagree with every comment made here.
I loved HFC, it is probably my favourite boog movie ever. I don't care that it was short, because it had so many good waves, well edited and those interviews were amazing.


The Mike comment...
When I heard this, I was a bit taken back and did sit and think about it. After watching it a few times, my view on the comment changed. For me, he is saying that Mike was giving him all this advice and stuff, which is sick for some people but he didn't think that they were going to affect his riding in a positive way and maybe they were creating a negative head space for him.

The Stand Up Surfers inspiration...
I agree with this so much. Watching how stand up's set their line, stall for the pit and ride waves is so much more fluent than a lot of bodyboarders (bar Mitch). The way Mitch bottom turns, then does the half turn and stall for the barrel is the most amazing thing to watch, and I do find myself trying to emulate that some times. That, he got from surfers. Guarantee it, because they do it far more often than bodyboarders. They also seem to surf with so much power off their rails, as in driving carves from top the bottom which look amazing. I know all good bodyboarders do them, but Mitch and good surfers did do them off the most powerful place on the wave where other people do spins or tiny airs. Alex Bunting does them really well in Thrash'd, and Kingy has a really good one in his Joker podcast from the Philippines but apart from that nobody seems to do them like Mitch.

Length/Editing...
The editing of this film has been critisised for it's "artsy" approach, but how can you say that when you watch DVD's like FeverDream, Nothing and even Thrash'd to an extent. They all show these 5 minute clips of black and white images of nothing, with boring music in the background where you can't see anything. That's boring, and I always skip them. Mitch's movie has lots of landscape scenes, but you can see what is going on, the music matches it brilliantly and I find it so much easier to watch this and enjoy the shots.
The length has also been critisised but I find when a movie has tight editing and the waves are all A++ quality, you don't need to add all these poor waves just for length's sake. Also, so many movies (Grow/Blow Up for example) re-use the same waves over and over again. In Grow Up, the intro even features the same wave twice! (Ben Player is Hawaii, doing an air reverse off that right hander. They show the reverse first, then at the end they show the whole wave) I'm not critising this at all, because the waves they do repeat are generally top class waves, but I love it how Mitch's movie only has the 1 wave repeated throughout the whole thing (as far as I'm aware).

The Interviews/Structure
They give such a good insight into his mind and I loved them. He says what he thinks about everything, is completely honest and it gives you a whole other perspective on so many topics. They were amazing, I wish they were in more films.
The structure, or lack of in this case, has worked so well because it just flows. It is broken into sections, but the whole thing is just the best waves, the lifestyle shots and the interviews put into the movie and you are just left there wondering "where was that? who was that!?". It just relies on your knowledge of the industry which I love.

The one problem I did have was it revealed a lot of "secret" spots down here for really good waves that people didn't know where they were before now but I'm sure people do now after watching this.

Overall this movie is insane andI love it, and they are my views.
10/10 easy.
Oh and also, this was only part 1 of the movie, I hope part 2 is just as awesome!

But as always, haters gon' hate.

[savage flame]

The Stand Up Surfers inspiration...
I agree with this so much. Watching how stand up's set their line, stall for the pit and ride waves is so much more fluent than a lot of bodyboarders (bar Mitch). The way Mitch bottom turns, then does the half turn and stall for the barrel is the most amazing thing to watch, and I do find myself trying to emulate that some times. That, he got from surfers. Guarantee it, because they do it far more often than bodyboarders. They also seem to surf with so much power off their rails, as in driving carves from top the bottom which look amazing. I know all good bodyboarders do them, but Mitch and good surfers did do them off the most powerful place on the wave where other people do spins or tiny airs. Alex Bunting does them really well in Thrash'd, and Kingy has a really good one in his Joker podcast from the Philippines but apart from that nobody seems to do them like Mitch.

Two words. Ryan Hardy.
I agree with you. Same with Hardy. if you look at the way he surfs, although a lot different to Mitch's style, he surfs in the same way as you said.
Watch his section in Tension 1. To this day, it is mind-blowing the sections he makes and the stuff he is doing.
He also surfed with stand-up's a lot when he was young, so he adapted to sectiony, tough to make-around-the-whitewash kind of waves better than pretty much every other bodyboarder.

[adam.s]

Yea, it just looks the best way to ride waves. I think I prefer the way Mitch sets up his barrels though, with that turn. But Ryan does make some sick barrels

[stretch]

id like to send a shout out to Cootes and the riptide team for adressing the issue of depression and mental health i think its a good thing to raise awearness in the younger teen to early 20's age bracket ,

Cheers STRETCH

[mik13]

riptide has lost its balls!!!!!!!!!!

seriously i just travelled three weeks with this mag around europe and now i loath it- possibly the worst issue ever.
i guess i am about 10 years above the target demographic (what 14?) main gripes include but not limited to:
- weak excuse for surf journalism even with a disclaimer in one article about how crap the content is
- giving moderate surf stories seperate parts to puff out a few mags
- not one girl pic in the entire mag surfing or draped on the beach like a piece of driftwood.

sad times riptide....

[Derwent]

Only just bought this mag - some good photography which is mostly why i bought it (and continue to buy it) - the devil's in the detail was ok but a lot of the other writing didn't hold my interest (wrong demographic I guess) - I liked 'this is africa' heaps more than hiding my bone or whatever its called but it still had some decent action

[sundaytripz]

riptide has lost its balls!!!!!!!!!!

seriously i just travelled three weeks with this mag around europe and now i loath it- possibly the worst issue ever.
i guess i am about 10 years above the target demographic (what 14?) main gripes include but not limited to:
- weak excuse for surf journalism even with a disclaimer in one article about how crap the content is
- giving moderate surf stories seperate parts to puff out a few mags
- not one girl pic in the entire mag surfing or draped on the beach like a piece of driftwood.

sad times riptide....

You don't really strike me as a 24 year old.

[caspian]

So just borrowed Hiding From Comfort.

Mostly loved it, but it really could've been way better.

- Some of the footage made me jizz everywhere; in terms of "arty" footage it's far beyond anything done before, it's all gorgeous
- Really shoulda been way longer
- Interviews sapped momentum and seemed pointless
- Music was alright (great Sigur Ros song) but something a bit more upbeat here and there wouldn't have been bad
- IF YOU SHOW CYCLOPS EMPTIES, SHOW MORE THEN TWO AND GIVE US SOME ACTUAL FOOTAGE solofnwfoweneoiwnewldadadsadasdasda >:(

With a few tweaks, better direction and more cyclops it would've been the best bodyboarding movie ever. As it stands, good, but ultimately a bit unsatisfying. 7/10 Part 2 could be arse but it could also be pure brilliance.. looking forward to it.