I wasn’t sure what to do with this Daily Create, at least not at first. I have been stacking cord after cord of wood in the yard (5 cord so far!), and I initially thought I might want to create something about my intentional effort to stack the full delivery in one session. It’s a challenge to load a wheelbarrow, run the load over to the fence, and then stack it – over and over – in a single session. But that’s not a “surf edition” Daily Create. Then I remembered the Instagram video by Evan Loignon that a fellow surfer shared with me about a month ago. I don’t know Evan, so it was kind of fun to see that he caught me surfing and used it in a short film he calls “Low Presser.”
It’s a chest-to-head high day in early winter, with very strong offshore winds and a bit of chop in the water. I’m out there almost alone. What makes it a challenge is the fact that I’m surfing a board better suited to smaller, cleaner conditions. I took a portion of the original clip, pulled it into iMovie, added my own sound effects and a title/description to establish a “created on” date, and tweeted it out.
The original film is viewable at Vimeo, and you can really tell that it’s a tough day to be paddling into waves: https://vimeo.com/308315264. I found it challenging, but the shortboarder in the film found it nearly impossible!