Words by Zack Raffin | Video written and directed by Kalani Minihan
Envy is an ugly, fickle emotional complex that will lead you down a dark and cumbersome path.
Unfortunately, there is no world in which you watch the above clip without inciting such feelings deep within your core.
Tosh Tudor has spent the better part of the last year staring out of many a vortex, getting barreled in a way that we plebs could only hope. Any one of the waves in the above edit would be seared upon the pre-frontal of the average surfer for life, but for Tosh it’s just another day.…
Tubefession could be served raw but the sauce really makes this one shine. Not only are there nearly 70 full throttle tubes, but he managed to hook a surf centric academy award winning nominee to mirror him in his latest skit.
We want to know what Tosh knows, so we called him while he was home in San Diego in a futile hope to find the answer: how does one achieve such voluminous tube time?
Ok, would you rather boogie board for a year or start an Only Fans?Well what kind of content do I have to put out?
Full frontals.
Oh that’s heavy. I don’t know. I guess boogie board for a year. I’d get drained. Otherwise I’d be the full frontal Only Fans guy that surfs for the rest of my life.
How does one get academy award nominated Jonah Hill to act in their surf edit?
Jonah’s an amazing dude. I had surfed with him in Malibu and then he started training at my dad’s jiu jitsu studio and became friends with our family. When it came time to film this skit we were trying to figure out who to do it with and I was like fuck, I don’t want to be weird about it but it’s worth an ask. He was so cool and made the time to shoot it with us and even let us film it at his office.
How was it trying match his energy while acting?
I just went into it trying to act like I’m getting interrogated. I was so stunned by what was going on I didn’t even really process it which helped me get through the scene.
Was the gun in the interrogation real?
That would be messed up. Thankfully it was a prop. He came with his own costume and badge too.
How does one exactly go about releasing a 20 minute surf film without no turns?
I feel like that’s what every surfer loves the most, just getting barreled. It’s become my addiction I guess. I’ve just been trying to be in the right place at the right time and find myself on the right waves, and those waves happen to be one’s that are barreling. I went on a trip to Ireland and scored for 5 days and I thought: I can make an edit with this or I can save up the whole year and keep the momentum going. Hopefully I got exciting enough barrels so it doesn’t get repetitive.
What locations did you hit? Where did you score the hardest?
Indonesia is the first two actions, then Oz. We also hit Ireland, Tahiti and Japan. I’d have to say we scored Tahiti the hardest. The locals said it was one of the cleanest days they’ve seen so that was pretty special. I had a session completely alone for an hour and a half the second day of the swell in 6-8 foot perfect Chopes.
The wave you get at deserts at the end of the intro is pretty ridiculous, how’d that feel?
That has to be my favorite wave in the edit. I’ve never ridden the foam ball like that and I don’t think I’ve ever claimed a wave that hard. Looking back, I hate it. I was coming over that last foam ball and Rio Waida had his arms wide open, so then my arms were wide open, then I blacked out and put my arms in the air like an idiot. I guess it’s apart of it.
Your boards are looking pretty good as well.
Almost every wave in the film is on The Therapist model from Thomas Bexon which I’ve been working on with him for awhile. I rode a 5’11 or 6’1 in almost every session in the film. It still has that old school single fin outline while still being able to fit in heavy waves. I’ve had that board from 5’10 to 7’2 and Thomas has been amazingly kind in making those for me.
We noticed that for a goofy you seem to love going right.
Honestly a good backside barrel feels better than a frontside barrel. Maybe because you’re lower on the wave it just always feels bigger, then if you are standing it’s like “what?!”. My dad told me when I was younger that I better figure out how to backside tube ride. Watching old surf films of John Peck going parallel stance at Pipe, and then Torren Martyn and Jamie O I tried to learn from everything they were doing and pack as many closeouts as I could until I figured it out. Then I went on a trip to Barra and surfing a perfect, draining right really helped me learn all those stances. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.
Well it’s definitely working. Do you think you’re one of the most barreled people in the world?
I don’t know about that. A part of my ego may like to think that, but I think there’s people no one talks about or knows that are probably getting really tubed. The most barreled person in the world to me is Bruno Santos. If you’re talking about proper tube time that guys got it dialed so, I’d give it to him.
If you were starving on a desert island which one of your friends would you eat?
I don’t think I’d want to eat any of them. I guess Shane Borland. He eats a ton of fancy snacks.
Where are you off to next?
Wait for the Hawaiian season to open up and head over there. Put more time in at Pipe and get some better waves.
