Shawn Dennis - Tunnel Vision

Shawn Dennis is a soft-spoken man of mystery. 

“I think what brought me to Indonesia was the allure of good waves, but also the freedom that you find here. I’d only planned to be in Indonesia for two months, then a one or two-month trip turned into three years…”

Interestingly enough, you meet a lot of folks whose trips went that way around Bali. They just don’t all get as insanely tubed as Shawn Dennis. Check out the short film we made on this Saffa transplant, featuring a few tubes from Shawn’s “extended stay.”

 

 

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A DAY TO REMEMBER - Epic day at Hollow Trees

Video by Praya Charters - Mentawai & Banyak Islands.

Epic surfing morning at Hollow Trees, around 9 am we had to go to another wave after the wind changed to onshore.

 

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Saturn: A new surf film with Kael Walsh, Rolo Montes and Al Cleland Jr., shot on location in Indo, South Coast and Western Oz and featuring music by The Chemical Brothers, The Crystal Method, Sleep Jackson, Modest Mouse, Melvins (featuring Tool) and Brian Jonestown Massacre. Big airs and hog sheds. Enough attitude to give your computer a virus.

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Solid Walls - South Sumatra, June 2022

This long left point in remote Indonesia works best on small to medium swells, and can max out pretty easily during the dry season. This edit was filmed over a few days in June during a window of large swell, with some of the competitiors of the Krui Pro contest taking it on. 

WHAT SURFBOARDS TO TAKE ON A INDO TRIP | Nic Von Rupp

Indo season is fast approaching and the question on everyones mind when packing for a trip like that is. What board should I pack? how many boards? what models, do I need a step up?

In this video im taking you thru all the surfboards I rode last year in the Mentawaiis, while showing some of the best raw footage that went down in Indo last year

Just a little tease to start of the Indo Season.

Tropical Oaze

A quick glimpse into life in Indonesia. Film by Arthur Shim.

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Pandemic Lembongan

Short One - Lembongan | It’s hard to see Lembongan that empty.

All stores are closed, beaches are empty and hotels are slowly turning into abandoned buildings. It is clearly visible: covid has changed everyone’s life here.

Countless residents are struggling to survive during this pandemic.

The more it touched my heart to see the locals having the biggest smiles on their faces surfing THEIR spots together.

It is just incredible how much joy the ocean can bring to everyone’s life.

Nias not to be missed

The swell that hit Nias wasn't the biggest, but it provided elongated moments of shade and camaraderie to the few guys who happend to be around there!

NIC VON RUPP | THE MACARONIS DREAM!!!

Nic just got back from the most insane Sail Boat trip down to the Mentawais. He scored really good Macaronis and double the size Greenbush to the previous trip.

This week we are launching the Macaronis episode and in 10day the Greenbush stuff.

Here are some words from Nic:

"Surfing Macaronis with not many people around has been a dream since a kid, i maybe even everyones dream, its worlds most user friendly wave with barrels to turn to airs, but its usually packed with 30+ people. It was crazy to show up there and surf it for 2 days with very few people around.. You would catch a wave an be straight in line for the next set. I think everyone ended up surfing 60 waves each..

I think this might only happen to me once in a life time."

Giant Waves At Uluwatu - Surfing Bali, 2021

Thumbnail is at 6:08. A very solid West swell brought all of Bali's big-wave chargers out of the woodwork, and down to Uluwatu for a memorable afternoon session. 

Most of the action was at Outside Corner, and as the tide dropped out a decent amount of surfers headed out there to try their luck. Everyone put on a good show, and we were treated to some amazing rides, epic wipeouts, and broken boards galore.

This video features land & drone footage. Enjoy!

Mason Ho & Sheldon Paishon chasing the dream to find a wave with nobody in Indonesia

Mason Ho & Sheldon Paishon move onto a more uncrowded spot somewhere in Indonesia. Chasing the dream to find a wave with nobody around the boys stumble across this high performance left hander.

Best rides from this session are being saved for Snapt 4 The Movie. Stay tuned!

Surfers: Mason Ho, Sheldon Paishon & Super Agent Pete Mathews. 

Filming: Rory Pringle & Pete Freiden. 

Location: Indonesia.

Endless Barrels At A Perfect Left - Surfing Sumbawa, Indonesia - June 17th and 19th, 2021

This shallow Sumbawan reef was pumping out never-ending barrels last week, and we managed to capture some of the action over two very similar days. 

This place produces some of the most flawless waves we've ever seen, and the wave starting at 5:28 totally blew our minds. The surfer is Aussie charger, Georgia, getting 4 barrels on one wave, and making it look easy!

We have more epic footage from a nearby spot, so keep an eye out for another edit dropping soon.

This video features land and drone footage. Enjoy!

Indo 2017

Video from Kyle Buthman

It seemed as if every other day we were repacking our bags and heading out on another adventure weather it be by boat, plane or car. We covered a lot of ground for spending just 30 days in Indonesia this year. 5 days was the longest we ever stayed in one place to be exact. Because of that we met plenty of cool people and saw a ton of beautiful places. Here are a few of the sessions that one of us sat out to Document. Surfers: Kyle Buthman, Tessa Timmons, Noi Kaulukukui, Kala Buthman