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SOFIA Mulanovich, 2005 World Champion and awesome freesurfer, this is her story. What did our Test Team make of it?
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SURFING without fins set to classical score, pure lunacy or groundbreaking innovation? Our Test Team decide.
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DEVELOPED for shaper Jason Stevenson, a balanced mid-sized fin for ripping. How does it stack up?
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REVIEWING the FCS PC-3, PC-5 and PC-7s, does a Performance Core fin really make you a better surfer?
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MATT Archbold, or Archy, is a name every surfer should know. The story of the original, bad boy, maverick-freesurfer.
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[PT-Laurie Saunders' Review]
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 Laurie Saunders Surfing tenish years. My favourite board is a 7'8" performance mini-mal -Ideal for most days here on the South Coast. My ability level is probably average and I reckon my surfing verges towards the smooth side of things although I'm not averse to bouncing occasionally to milk the most out of a wave. I love going on van trips with my wife, Elaine: France, Northern Spain, Portugal, Wales and, of course, the West Country. For these missions I break out my 6'8" thruster!
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It's winter here in the UK and if like me, you've got a day-job, when 5pm finally comes around it's darker than the inside of my 5mm booties. So what do you do on these long dark evenings? Watch a DVD of course and this is a pretty interesting one.
It's basically a peek into the life of Clay Marzo. Young and ultra-gifted, Marzo is described by his fellow pro surfers as "a true original" and "the best 18-year-old in the world". On the face of the evidence here they aren't far wrong. This film is about how he tries to transfer these raw skills to the pro-circuit whilst simultaneously dealing with his newly diagnosed Aspergers syndrome. Described in the film as a kind of "higher autism".
The film also features Kelly Slater and Dane Reynolds along with a few other Quiksilver riders but mostly what you get is Clay Marzo in bucketloads. This guy is an awesome aerialist and even if you are not a performance surfing fan this is an eye opener. I know it's a bit of an old cliché but he really does seem to spend as much time in the air above the wave as he does on it. Tails fly, fins disconnect and reconnect, rails are grabbed in a blur of pause, rewind, did he really just do that? surfing.
Marzo's Aspergers syndrome means that he has difficulties with social interaction. Obviously this makes for some fraught times on tour. Clay gets frustrated with people and people get frustrated with him. In one hilarious sequence he says exactly what he thinks of the Quik boardshorts he's supposed to be endorsing.
The guy really is an enigma - the cynic in me almost feels that Quiksilver is trying to work out how best to market him... maybe even explain his somewhat patchy contest results. By the way, in today's surfing world, I thought contests and 'the circuit' were not all pro surfing is about. Look at Dave Rastovich and Laird as examples of marketable soul surfers.
His own mother says, "A lot of people don't get Clay" and she's not wrong, he does come across as quite an unsympathetic character, even taking his Aspergers into account. However the other surfers featured do seem to genuinely like him.
Featuring awesome, ground-breaking surfing, beautifully shot with a nice eclectic soundtrack. This is the perfect calling card for Marzo and for introducing him to a wider audience and showcasing his full-on, new school, total-commitment style. A candid, interesting surf film which is well worth 50 minutes of anyone's time.
This article has been given an average rating of 3.49 from 630 votes.
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