Dynamite Surfing

(mi_moomba) · (mi_moomba) **Join Date: May 2005** 02-08-2007, 7:58 AM

Found this on another website. This looks like a good Hollywood recreation, but this is still nuts!
http://www.break.com/index/dynamite_surfing.html

(jarrod) · (jarrod) **Join Date: May 2003** 02-08-2007, 8:09 AM

Unbelievable...that was awesome.

innov8actionsports.com 02-08-2007, 8:23 AM

HAHA, dude that was sick!!

(wakeguru) · (wakeguru) **Join Date: Feb 2003** 02-08-2007, 8:35 AM

lol....I don't know, but that guy was in pretty good position for that wave which makes me wonder...

(jarrod) · (jarrod) **Join Date: May 2003** 02-08-2007, 8:38 AM

You think it was BS Dave? I wondered too.

(wakeguru) · (wakeguru) **Join Date: Feb 2003** 02-08-2007, 8:44 AM

I'm reading some of the comments related to the vid...lol...the more rational comments lead me to believe it is.

(woreout) · (woreout) **Join Date: Aug 2006** 02-08-2007, 8:45 AM

We fish like that here.

(wakecis) · (wakecis) **Join Date: Jun 2005** 02-08-2007, 8:51 AM

the water appears like it's still with algae all over it. after the blast, the wave was all frothy behind the barrel, at the end, indicating salt in the water and repeat churning from multiple waves. doesn't seem real to me.

innov8actionsports.com 02-08-2007, 8:55 AM

I was thinking the same thing about the vid being the real deal, but it was still sick.

(richd) · (richd) **Join Date: Oct 2003** 02-08-2007, 9:22 AM

A wave breaking like that denotes some sort of reef, sand bar or shaped bottom which would be unusual in a lake like that plus the dynamite looked phoney as I don't think you can actually detonate it with a regular fuse like that anymore. (Sounds like Billy can verify that though LOL)

Camera moves are very convenient as well, notice how you go from the buildings in the background to just a low shot of the surfer riding. (And crap video quality hides it all).

Let's face it if one could actually pull that off you'd work extra hard to make sure it didn't look faked and decent video would be number one as well as multiple cameras / angles. Either way it's pretty well done and very entertaining. (look at the number of hits it gotten!)

(mjmurphy53711)

Its a commercial for quicksilver, Im sure it was doctored.

(andy_nintzel)

I am gunna go with Doctored as well.

(colorider) · (colorider) **Join Date: Jun 2001** 02-08-2007, 1:27 PM

I am sending this link to Mythbusters today. I think it is totally possible. but I am no explosives expert. Well, at least not to that magnitude.

(depswa) · (depswa) **Join Date: Nov 2000** 02-08-2007, 1:41 PM

It could be legit! Look at the parked cars' lights flashing from their alarms going off at the end.

(colorider) · (colorider) **Join Date: Jun 2001** 02-08-2007, 1:44 PM

I just submitted it to Mythbusters. Guess the only way to find out 100% is for them to redo the stunt, or for some fellow wakeworldian to get their hands on some massive explosives, a lake, and a surfboard.

(andy_nintzel)

I GOT THE SURF BOARD! LET TRY IT!

(lostkgb78) · (lostkgb78) **Join Date: Oct 2005** 02-08-2007, 3:15 PM

FAKE
But a good one

(crracer) · (crracer) **Join Date: Nov 2003** 02-08-2007, 4:20 PM

Interesting though there is a wave going in the other direction as well in the video indicating to me it was real, if it was, then there should be a wave in all directions around the blast it looks like there was to me???

(h2oterroristo) · (h2oterroristo) **Join Date: Apr 2006** 02-08-2007, 5:43 PM

It was made for Quiksilver by an advert group called Saatchi and Saatchi in Denmark, and, if you're really seriously wondering if it's 100% real, it's not.

(jbeau) · (jbeau) **Join Date: Jun 2005** 02-08-2007, 6:47 PM

I'd have to see it as higher resolution, but it looks like the smoke is too stragetically placed. From a compositing position it would be the easiest place to use it as a transition from the water being displaced to the actual creation of the wave.
BTW, Saatchi is just an adagency. They would subcontact some other company to do the CG/Capture/compositing work.
Still a nice piece.

(richd) · (richd) **Join Date: Oct 2003** 02-08-2007, 8:07 PM

"They would subcontact some other company to do the CG/Capture/compositing work."

Yep, as hard as they tried to make it look totally guerilla it still looks to me like it was professionally done to make it look that way. Plus Lord knows how much CC work they did to get it to look that dark, blurry etc. and the "Blair Witch" camera work as well - shake it on purpose until the motion makes you sick.

Modern cameras just don't produce video that bad even if you don't have a clue what you're doing.

(azwakekid) · (azwakekid) **Join Date: Apr 2005** 02-08-2007, 8:14 PM

id say its real, and neat

(da_moose) · (da_moose) **Join Date: Feb 2004** 02-09-2007, 1:13 PM

SIGN ME UP

(saroberts70) · (saroberts70) **Join Date: Aug 2006** 02-09-2007, 1:28 PM

Sure its real...so is wrestling.

(firemedic) · (firemedic) **Join Date: Jul 2006** 02-10-2007, 9:33 PM

and so are pamela andersons boobs

(stepintoliquid)

not sure if its real or not, but its pretty rad!