Pro Surfer Reviews Surf Movies, from 'Blue Crush' to 'Point Break'

Are you kidding me? That made surfing look awesome. There's a thing called like you can like party wave and there's two surfers riding and that was like pretty much as dangerous as surfing gets right there. You don't want to party wave when your life's on the line you know. Hey Vanity Fair my name is Kanoe Igarashi. I'm a pro surfer and we're gonna be reviewing some surf movies. All right so right here you can tell she doesn't really know what she's doing and she looks a little bit unsure when she's paddling and her feet are up. She's not catching the wave like she missed the wave just said but in this scene she's actually on the wave. That wave wasn't that big actually. That wave was probably like three feet and all of a sudden this next scene is like eight feet. It's close enough. Whoa is that a double? That's not the same person. The scene of her like paddling into it you could tell the person didn't know how to surf and all of a sudden like they really like really knew how to surf on the wave. So I was like so that must be a stunt double. Oh my god and in this third scene she's like one of the best surfers in the world. So it's like there's three different surfers in one scene. Pipe I was just there like a few hours ago. So yeah this is actually Pipeline. It's one of the most famous waves in the world. They have some of the biggest surfing events and this is like the exact scene of like everyone's so close to the beach it's like intense. The real Hawaiian scene like I think it's the Volcom house. One of them is Kala right there in the beanie. I saw him like eight hours ago actually. I was just in Hawaii right before this. It's pretty crazy that they incorporated like that real scene in a Hollywood movie. Right here when she's in the barrel. I can't tell if that's real or if that's like like green screen but that's like as good as it gets right there. That's like top-notch pro surfer. Oh has to hit the reef. Oh I called it. Leash is stuck in the reef. That's happened to me like once and I pretty much like panicked and I was like yeah this is it. But you're hoping for the leash to break. So like her leash is like stuck around the coral on the bottom somehow. So she's just waiting for like the tension to just break off and she can just come back to service. These days we have a technology called the quick release where you can just pretty much pull your leash. It's like an eject cord. It's like when all plans go wrong you just use that one and you get out of that situation. But yeah it looks like this is a pretty old movie. They don't have that technology yet. She was able to get off her get her leash off luckily. That's probably like 30 seconds underwater. When you're like turbulent and you're you know getting pounded like yeah here comes the next wave. There's so much going on like 30 seconds underwater doesn't seem like that much like when you're like a bathtub. But when you're like in the ocean you're getting like tumbled around 30 seconds is like an eternity. So the only thing you do is like just relax and like you know the more you move the more like oxygen you use. So you just have to like relax all your muscles and be like all right I'm just gonna let this pass through. Even me watching it I feel like I'm like like losing breath like watching this. I know what she's going through even though it's a movie I'm like yeah that sucks. All right so let's check out one more scene from Blue Crush. It's funny this this is you can this is actually Hawaii because the ocean in Hawaii the bottom the sand is like groomed that kind of way too. Hawaii is one of the only places where I've seen that has that kind of sand below. I think Hawaiians have been training like that for forever I feel like. I don't know about people behind you like that but that underwater like with a rock it's good cardio training. It's like a stress cardio almost like you need to like switch off your mental like anxiety and then like be able to hold your breath for as long as you can underwater. This is like the ultimate surf training really. This is Point Break the 2015 remake. I think it's in Tahiti right? Chopu yeah I want to say Raimondo was in because he always talks about this movie. He's like you see my scene in Point Break? Well I'm watching it now Raimondo. Oh Laird Hamilton. So that guy that came in to pick up the other server was Laird Hamilton. He's a famous big wave rider. To have someone like that pick you up and tell you the wave of the day is coming in is like all right it's on. Oh that's Raimondo right there. I don't know what he's driving and what he's doing but I always stay with him when I go to Tahiti. It's crazy Chopu like the scene like in the water is exactly that like boats everywhere people like screaming like cheering because you can see like the sets coming from like really far away. That scene was exactly it's like the set of the day is coming in like get on. Who's got the inside? The person that has the inside means the person has priority to go on that wave. When it gets serious in the lineup it's like the drivers have to like snake their way and like navigate their way into like you know the inside of other jet skis which is pretty dangerous but that's kind of what's happening here. You can tell there's two you know sets of athletes trying to catch the same waves. It's like they're fighting for position. Wait hold on. So this scene of Raimondo going like this now it all makes sense. So we all make fun of him when we're all driving a ski we do it's called the Raimondo and so everyone goes like this. I never really understood why but I mean I even do it. It's like whenever I see Raimondo I'm like move get out of the way with the ski and so that's exactly it right there. I finally get it. That is so good. Oh my goodness that's a ginormous wave. Oh my god did he come out? Are you kidding me? That made surfing look awesome. That was like a 25 foot wave and there's two surfers riding and that was like pretty much as dangerous as surfing gets right there and then you have two guys riding. There's a thing called like you can like party wave but you don't want to party wave when your life's on the line you know. So yeah right there they're pretty much doing a party wave. That's like you know you do that when it's like one foot two foot and you're having fun with your friends not when it's 30 foot and death defying but it's pretty much a surfer in the back got their like line cut out by the surfer in the front like when you're going and you have like wakes from the other surfer your line isn't as clean and so you lose a little bit of speed and just losing that little bit of speed you're just mistiming the whole wave. I'm just thinking about like the actual guy that's doing this like the stunt double like how did he not actually die like I think that was actually Laird Hamilton like stunt doubling that's like real respect right there that's I hope he got paid a lot of money for that because I don't know how much money I would have to get paid to take a wipe out like that. Dogtown was pretty much the name of the now Venice Beach and the Z-Boys were the surfers and skaters around that area at the time where surfing skate was like that was the thing to do. Yeah my dad loved this like lifestyle of just like skating and surfing and my dad was really good friends with Tony Alva. I'd go surf with him and I'd go skate with him and he always like give me skateboards and teach me how to skate pretty much when I was growing up so like being around that and like actually seeing that like in real life was pretty crazy like you know obviously it was such a legendary movement. It's judgment day boys. What did he say it's judgment day? I think he saw one of their peers like shoot the pier. I think they wanted to shoot the pier too. Your broads aren't surfing now. I ain't surfing no sloppy seconds. Sloppy seconds are just like he didn't want to surf the waves when the waves got bad so they wanted to surf like when the conditions were good and normally I'm assuming like when the like all the older guys would go in like out of the water when the waves got bad and so that's when the kids can go surf. They didn't want to serve the sloppy seconds they wanted to surf when the conditions were good with the other guys. Surfing a lot of times there's like localism and you can tell that there's like a you know the older peers have that like they're pretty much just owning the lineup and the lineup is pretty much like the surf break and you got to earn your right and so it's pretty much like the the younger kids having to like show the respect to the elders to like to earn their spot um to go surf. So in surf terms you'd call that like that's sketchy. Sketchy is just like dangerous. Surfing is oh you're pretty much just surfing into like like poles of concrete you know. Where I grew up surfing in Huntington Beach we have a pier as well. I love shooting the pier it's just something different and it's just like a weird feeling. It's just like it's more of like a accomplishment thing. It's like I just shot the pier. I mean nowadays it's normal because I've done it so many times. I've hit the pier before the pylons. Once you get like a little bit too comfortable you you hit it and it's pretty it's pretty dangerous. Next up we have Surf's Up. Cody versus Tank surf off. My favorite part of the movie. I don't want to watch it over and over and over and over again. I think he wipes out. He played like 10 times. Oh my god. I remember watching this and I was going like yeah like obviously like the kid like Tank is like he's like the bad guy. He's like no one likes him and obviously Cody like in the movie Cody's gonna win. Like you know it's like he's the one challenging him. Like he's a good kid. He's gonna smoke Tank Evans you know. And when he was doing those like off-set interviews saying like how he's gonna beat him. How the first wave is gonna be amazing. I was like yeah let's do this. Like I felt like it was like relatable. You know like Cody was like the young guy. And then when he did that when he like fell and went over the falls on that wave. I was like what? That wasn't supposed to happen. I was so invested in the movie. I was like that's I was like hey that's me. You know I'm relating to him. That's me in this situation. Then he went up when he fell. I was like you're not supposed to fall. Come on. Having that like vibe of like everyone watching on the beach and then like you know you can tell that he has his friends there. Everyone's like cheering on. All the friends that he's made like over the last like few weeks. And everyone came to like watch him surf. And he's like coming up against Tank Evans. Who I think is supposed to be like the Sonny Garcia of the movie. Who's like Sonny Garcia like this big Hawaiian guy with tattoos. And like you know he's like the aggressive guy. Cody is like a young Kelly Slater maybe. And it's like you know having that like challenging scene. It's like it's real life. You know like I felt like that when I got on tour. Like when I got on the championship tour. When I was 17 and I was going up against like all these guys that are you know over 40 years old. I was like all right. Like I gotta stick. I gotta like you know hold my ground against these these older guys. Like you know talking smack on me. And then yeah it's relatable. Like you know you think you can hold your ground but then you wipe out and you lose. As funny as it sounds like I'm a kid at heart. So yeah I did. Like I was like remember like little scenes like being 17 and competing like at Hawaiian stuff. And like thinking like yeah I'm Cody and that's Tank Evans like that's the bad guy. I gotta take on the bad guy that all my friends are here watching. It's so serious. It's like that's like the classic angle too. Like it's so well done. And like the way he's paddling and the way his facial like like the way he's like reacting to these waves. It's pretty funny. You feel like you're in the movie and then you have like Tank Evans like all cocky and like nonchalant. It's so funny. It's such a good movie. I think it's my favorite surf movie. In real real surf movie wise and in animated surf movies this one takes the cake. All right guys that's it for today. Thanks for watching these surf movies with me. Hopefully we have more of these. There's plenty of more surf movies to watch and peace out.