Given to Fly.
For many years mainstream surfing has become focussed with what goes on above the lip, rather than on the wave itself. Whether looking through a magazine, or surfing locally, the surfing, or should I say the younger surfing crowd have gone crazy for the aerial, or air as it is now better known as. Now, let me first say that I am not against aerials, not at all, in fact in the late 80’s, during the Wave Warriors era when Matt Archbald and Christian Fletcher were pioneering them, I genuinely thrilled by the new school surfing that they represented. Things went a little quite on this front after the initial flurry of interest, partly because in a competitive sense they were still frowned upon and scored accordingly, and in the local context, it was that they were just so darned hard to do! Rusty surfboards did a movie called 'Just Surfing', which I saw when it came out in '91. This featured a free surfing section with a blistering sound track provided by the Sm...