If you don't have Dane Reynold's website bookmarked by now, you should (it's called
Marine Layer Productions in case you were wondering). Doesn't matter if you're a longboarder, shortboarder, SUPper, sponger, wakeboarder, whatever- you need to check out the clips he puts up every week or so. Dane's got a buddy that films almost every session of his and edits it into some really funky cuts. With music that is interesting to say the least. Anyway, Dane is off tour now and he's got plenty of time to turn his surfing up a notch around the beaches of Santa Barbara and Ventura. This week's clip on his website is called
'singles part 3' (scroll down on his site- it's the 2nd main video clip on the front page) and it features surfing around his home breaks from late December to early January. Long story short, his surfing is a notch above anyone else. Check out the shot below- he pulled it. Back foot stayed on the whole way through. (It's at 2:20 in the clip). He's the human Gumby.
Sure Kelly is complete from 2' to 20', Miguel Pupo does some huge but ugly airs, and Healey is the reincarnation of Noll. But from a pure high performance standpoint, nobody beats Dane. It's Dane's world and we're just living in it.
