Beautiful Surf footage shoot in exotic locales with top notch surfers riding epic waves. You got it! The newest film by Nate Apffel (Host of Fins on Fuel TV) where he teams up with Hans Hagen to find the soul of surfing across the world.
Beautiful Surf footage shoot in exotic locales with top notch surfers riding epic waves. You got it! The newest film by Nate Apffel (Host of Fins on Fuel TV) where he teams up with Hans Hagen to find the soul of surfing across the world.
In a time in history where everything is instant and for sale, Apffel brings a group of surfers from all different ages and backgrounds to take a global quest to what surfing truly is. A spiritual journey. They are not competing for a man sized check or hardware for cases that draw focus at parties, but for an inner light. A light that can only be lit when on a board, riding a wave, in nature at peace with the earth.
Nate captures this with jaw dropping images of pro Reef McIntyre in Indo or a chance meeting with Mike Parsons in Mexico that organically reveals what this quest is all about. Finding peace in the high octane sport of big wave riding.Apffel and producer Hans Hagen brought together a collection of surfers like Dave Rastovich, Reef McIntosh, Brian Conley, Hans Hagen, Dede Suryana, Nole Cossart, “Bol” Made Adi Putra, Andrew Bennett, and Chris Del Moro. All who come from different walks of life and levels of ability. But what they share is why they surf.
Even those on the tour take trips like this to feel the essence of what riding a force of nature is like. How it can transcend time and all from the material world becomes distant and foggy. While surfing has a singular focus that few outside of it can understand.I had just flown in from Hawaii that day when I drove to Laguna to cover the film premiere for Fuel TV’s the Daily Habit. The day before I was gliding across chest high clear blue swells that erased a summer of no surfing from an injured leg. Tuned out the constant shrill of a national debate on Health Care reform, and sat with sand still in my retro Vans as Nate Apffels images floated across the screen and into my mind. “Man those guys are nuts!” I thought.
I love surfing but the chances of riding 20 foot barrels are going to happen when I suddenly can slam dunk and get a gig in the NBA. Yeah that’s right I said, “gig.” I’ve been working in bars and nightclubs my entire adult life so hipster showbiz vernacular is all I got, baby.Anyway, look for this film on DVD and limited release and see how traveling the world in search of great waves on perfect shores is not the life of a bum, but the a higher calling that can bring one closer to what is important. More than any piece of technology could every hope too. Now I’m going to PALM STRIKE my laptop for not being a surf board.
–Graham Elwood
