6 months ago I started to put together a crew with a minimum age of 40 who all had a background in stand up paddle surfing to film the "Worlds First"
stand up paddle surfing movie "Living The Stoke". it's a good mix of mates with no ego's. There will be a few Seabreezers going including Dale Chapman , Lobes , Bspot & Tankman plus Glen “Rocky" Rawlings from channel 9 will be our head film co-coordinator.

The whole vibe of the film will be to showcase the beautiful surroundings of PNG and introduce stand up paddle surfing to the PNG people and where possible
distribute some clothes and basic school needs to the local kids, this won’t be a hard core surf film, although we do have some very good riders, it will be more a surf travel experience with a bunch of mates mixing in with the locals and sharing the stoke.

The Surf Travel company have come on board taking us to different surf camps all in very remote 3rd world areas of PNG. We will also be the first surfers to
access the new surf areas. Access has been organized to one of the schools for our handouts & local villagers and dancers from surrounding islands will be performing a Sing Sing and series of dances which should provide some incredible authentic footage.

The water footage will be very creative as we take advantage of the crystal clear water and film through the back of waves. There will also be an original soundtrack written a narrated by “Kings of The Sun” lead singer and score writer Jeff Hoad plus there will be a nice mix of local PNG tunes.

This is a poster of the movie and one of our latest 50/50 water shots. We leave soon on the 31st of Oct, the movie will release in Jan 2010.

Piros

That should be awesome Piros!! If the video has the same quality as your pics it should be a ripper!

Magazines, movies we are going mainstream I need a new sport

Love your work Piros

tha dogman said...



piros you are just keen to use that staple gun to fix up someones melon after it has been spilt open from a direc t hit to the reef

i heard you have tricked it out so it fires in multiple blasts/semi auto

good luck guys and bring home the bacon

Yeah we got the staple gun for doing our own stitches, plus needle and thread sutures, the reef is pretty sharp in places and we might come home with a few reef tattoos

The fishing reports we have been getting are all time as well so we plan to do a shoot chasing Wahoo & GT'S act on the stand up..... I reckon that’ll be pretty funny getting towed around.

Piros

Wow - will looking forward to that. Should be one big adventure.

downwind said...

I'm a great fan of superglue as a sutures substitute - although I'm not sure how it goes in continual saltwater dunkings (but maybe just wrap it up for this part of the procedure).

So.... we always pack (hardware store is fine) superglue in our first aid kit (don't get it in your eye but). Works a treat for many of the less serious, clean (needs skin to skin purchase), cuts.

Thanks Richard super glue is now in the kit

Piros

Sounds great Piros,good luck with the project,

how long will you be over there for,

Camo.

I am very envious Robbie, I see a Miami High old boy is writing your score in Jeff Hoad. I was in his sisters class (Belinda). Looking forward to seeing the dvd as we are planning a trip in 2010 hopefully.......Best of luck!

Hey Dogman

Yeh that was me riding a few little rights towards the girls trying not to make it obvious for a look. The girls were like bees to honey when Piros whipped out his








lens.

Clarky said...

Hey Dogman

Yeh that was me riding a few little rights towards the girls trying not to make it obvious for a look. The girls were like bees to honey when Piros whipped out his

lens.

You're a classic Clarky Steve Jeff has already put down the main tune ...pretty nice Jack Johnson feel and BTW I'm married to his sister Camo we will be over there for 2 weeks hopefully shooting 3 to 4 hours every day. You should how much gear we have I hope the plane will be able to take off. There is 10 of us going with a total of 16 standups plus all the camera gear and all the stuff for the png kids.

Piros

Waa-Hoo!... Can't wait to see it... Great pic with the two girls..

DJ

hey boys got the boards packed and most of my stuff layed out ready to go in the bag, only a week to got how much sleep am i going to get this week????? not much i think giddy up!!!!

Six months ago Rob talked to me about a trip to PNG. He was telling me about all the surf breaks and how good the surf is in PNG, And all the places we would be visiting, it sounded to good to be true! I check out all the place he was talking about on the net and it all looked fantastic ,the ultimate surfing safari with a bunch of great mates. I'm looking forward to being there and taking lot's and lot's of photos and riding some excellent surf . The boy's have been talking to me about the reef breaks as I have never surfed a reef break. Sounds like a real adrenaline pump, surfing over reef 1 foot under the water surface, also very scary !!!!
For the trip I bought a 10 ft X 34 inches Starboard whopper with candy beck grip (I'm a big fella)
it's a great board and I'm excited about surfing it in testing conditions. All the gear from Von Piros productions it great they just purchase a new 7D Canon camera, which is the latest camera from Canon. With a top speed of 8 frames per second, it's going to be great for all the cut backs and shack shots. It also takes HD video !! how good is that!!! Von Piros also has a 5D mark 2 camera from Canon which has a 24 megapixel censor, so you can imagine how good the photos will look blown up to poster size. Over the last 3 to 4 month we have been busy writing and drawing the story board, and it all looks and sounds sensational !!! I now have only 6 sleeps to go before we board the plane to PNG, you can all imagine just how excited I am. I'm like a little kid all wound up on red cordial!!!
So thanks to all the people at seabreeze who have wished us well.
I going to have another valium and try to get so sleep before we leave
TANKMAN

Homeally said...

TANKMAN said...

For the trip I bought a 10 ft X 34 inches Starboard whopper with candy beck grip (I'm a big fella)

TANKMAN

HAHA!! YES!!! Go the candy whopper!! YEW!!! Cant wait to see how it performs in sucky slabs over reefs!! YEW!! Please please please let me now how it goes!! YEW!!

Good luck to you all who are going to PNG!! The place is beatiful and the people are even more amazing!!
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Homeally, Another Whopper lover !!!
I will post pictures and write you a revue about my whopper journey in PNG . I've brought 6 cheap fins in anticipation of ripping a lot out of the board , I just hope I don't rip up the Whopper. Thanks for your well (Swell) wishes
TANKMAN

pmorgan1974 said...

looks awesome boys, minimum age of 40, does that mean I need to wait 5 years to get a shot at being in the sequel ?

Pete... maybe we should do one for us young guns??

LOL not at all.The sequel is already in motion all I can say it will be somewhere very remote in the Pacific , the boys at the Surf Travel Company have lined us to be the first into this new area.more on that later.

"Living The Stoke" will be very Sup lifestyle orientated the sequel we plan to take a couple of young chargers and throw them in the mix.

Piros

haha good to hear...well keep this 35 year old in mind. I have had some mates living in PNG for the last few years. Sounds like an amazing place