{"id":373,"date":"2012-09-08T21:00:52","date_gmt":"2012-09-08T13:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mentawai.org\/?p=373"},"modified":"2020-02-16T14:04:06","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T06:04:06","slug":"surfing-mentawai-videos-season-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mentawai.org\/surfing-mentawai-videos-season-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Surfing Mentawai | Videos from Season 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

How hard is it to come by good video edits of Mentawai culture, trekking<\/a>, or surfing? Hard.<\/p>\n

If you define “good” here as attention-grabbing, entertaining, and having a well edited, cool sound track, oh and informative as well, then it’s not easy to find.<\/p>\n

Seems like just about everyone who hits the high seas to the 3rd best wave zone<\/a>\u00a0(sure, you could argue your way through several cases of Bintang over that one…let’s leave it for then)\u00a0on the planet after Hawaii and Tahiti gets some sort of video capture of their trip.<\/p>\n

There’s a lotta crap around on Youtube and Vimeo no?<\/strong><\/p>\n

This first one by Alain Riou is pretty slick. Alain hails from Reunion<\/a> where he learned to surf. And when his family moved to within spitting distance of Chopes … well, the rest is history.<\/p>\n

The forehand attack is more imaginative than the backhand is the only comment I’d make. Whatever. Make sure you stay with this one until the kick-ass barrel right at the end. Surfing video you can stick with.<\/p>\n