OPPER OFFERINGS: Three Fine DVDs If You Please

TEN YEARS AFTER: It’s been over a decade since Opper Sports Productions began documenting the modern longboard revival. Chasing Oxbow World Longboard Championships to diverse locations around the globe as well as the most memorable swells both along the Califonia coast and in Hawaii, the filmmakers captured just about everything that moved on nine-plus equipment. In this compilation with segments from Powerglide, Blue Shock, Atlantic Moon, Super Slide and Wordz, the camera reviews World Title clashes, free surfing at Makaha and Queens, epic California sessions from Cardiff to Santa Cruz. Plus, classic historical footage and contemporary style of World Champs Joel Tudor, Bonga Perkins, Dino Miranda, and Rusty Keaulana, as well as top performers Josh Baxter, Kevin Connelly, Darren Ledingham, Lance Ho’okano and many, many more of the best riders over the past ten years.
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SUPER SLIDE: Super Slide is about classic hot doggin’ style with World Champion Joel Tudor leading the charge and getting solid surfing backup from fellow Californians Kevin Connelly, Jimmy Gamboa, Darren Ledingham, Mike Myers and many more. Check out Malibu under prime time south swell conditions, WindanSea going off, and Cardiff Reef delivering perfect winter waves. Trip out in Santa Cruz with Wingnut and Jay Moriarty, get deep into Backdoor Pipeline’s throaty barrels with Bonga Perkins, and witness women’s longboarding taking off at San Onofre, Makaha and Ala Moana. Also, see how today’s roots revival has taken hold in Australia. Classic longboarding can be traced around the Pacific and back through the generations in this video, with amazing footage and the real life stories of those whose surfing inspired the evolution.
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THE SURFER’S JOURNAL BIOGRAPHIES: CURREN/SLATER: Tom Curren and Kelly Slater are surfing’s most important figures in the last 20 years. This volume of the Surfer’s Journal Biographies reviews both surfers’ careers with intimate perspectives that help us understand who they really are as human beings as well as great wave riders. In addition to the full length documentary about the lives of Curren and Slater, the DVD contains contemporary surfing segments as bonus added.There’s a never before seen Curren segment with Tom ripping La Fontania in France. Showing that his smooth and graceful style is still intact, Curren demonstrates the skills that make him one of the most popular surfers of all time. Edited to the song “Supernatural” by Kevin Sandbloom, Curren fans will be mesmerized by his surfing.The Kelly Slater bonus segment is a must see! Slater surfing huge tow-in waves in France and tearing it up at “Le Piste”, a classic French beach break. Kelly proves that a break from the world tour has done nothing to hurt his aggressive surfing style. Accompanied by Ozomatli’s, “Superbowl Sundae”, this hip soundtrack and Kelly’s powerful aerial attack will leave you craving a surf session yourself!
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