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Surfing 50 States - a surf flick with a difference

One day I’ll dream up a crazy scheme like this - two Aussie blokes spent most of 2007 filming themselves surfing all 50 states of the USA.

Presumably they carved it up in Hawaii, California and Florida, but obviously most of the other states are landlocked (although if you’ve seen Step Into Liquid you’ll know that it’s possible to surf the Great Lakes), so they decided that for the purposes of this trip “surfing” only had to involve standing on a surfboard with some kind of momentum.

According to them, they slid down a 15ft pile of potatoes in Idaho, got towed by a cowboy and his horse in Texas, and dropped over an 8ft waterfall in Massachusetts. I imagine the water was pretty cold in Alaska and Washington, and who knows what they did in the deserts of Phoenix and Nevada…? Sounds like the crazy bits from a Warren Miller movie. Could be good.

The film’s called Surfing 50 States, it premieres in Sydney in mid-October and there’s a showing at Surfworld in Torquay on the 18th. They have a trailer on YouTube - I’m off to watch it!