To celebrate past International Surfing Day, we created a short movie inspired by Charles Bukowski's poem 'roll the dice'.

Life, as surf, is full of risks, which carry both benefits and drawbacks. Every day we make decisions, whether logical (glassy waves, decent-sized) or ill-considered (way bigger than we can surf, messy winds and currents, surfing with an inappropriate surfboard, just to name a few). Half the time, we make the right choice, but in the other half, we risk a lot of what matters to us most. But, as the poem says, most of the time the rewards outweigh the consequences. As surfers, we are willing to suffer physical pain, a sense of confinement, and humiliation in order to experience a state of bliss while having the magical feeling of ridding ‘that’ wave.

That’s what this year Van der Waal’s ‘ethos’ is about.

We have no words to thank all that helped us to make this video… to name a few, SurfingFede, Rodrigo Campos, Miguel and João for the surf, and Beatriz Gomes, Hélio Conde, Tomás Bello, Pedro Rodrigues for the clips.

CREDITS:

SURFERS: RODRIGO CAMPOS FROM PKSC | JOÃO DORNELLAS | MARTIM DORNELLAS | MIGUEL BANHUDO | SURFINGFEDE 

CLIPS:
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SOUNDTRACK: NEBULA FROM SLOWBURNER

ALL CLIPS IN THIS VIDEO ARE FROM SURFERS USING VAN DER WAAL SURF GRIP PADS ON THEIR BOARDS.