Watch: Lachie Rombouts // Moments
The wipeouts are spared from the cutting room floor, kept in the edit to show a realist's perspective of an open ocean slab. Yeah, they're great when you make 'em, but when you don't..?
Good to see Lachie persisting with his oversized equipment. It doesn't always work, but when it does, when he gets that real early entry and finds himself at the base of the wave with a solid platform under foot, then it all makes sense.
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Beautiful.
Nice clip and waves , tad overgunned perhaps?
EXCELLENT.
Enjoyed that - ballsy efforts on that wave, copped a couple of floggings. All came together in the last shot, lighting, wave and old mate drifting past - what a cracka
Apart from the size and the makes, reminiscent of my normal sessions
Cool vid. Doesn't mind having a dig.
The odds are still in Mother Natures favour though.
Far out....I usually have a low tolerance for slow mo ambient clips - as they seem to fail on both fronts - not quite art house enough to entrance you and they also ruin the joy of technical surfing observations with excessively long clips of birds skimming across water - but my finger was hovering over the mouse button but never came down. That was mesmerising on lots of fronts. LOVE the music too...
the fast forward option works a treat,
What lengths is he riding?
A tad more nose rocker perhaps?
That beast of a clip inspires 2 out of 9 Swellnet comments so far to include the word "tad"?
White male middle class privilege.....this shit wouldn't happen on Beachgrit!
A tad of Tad
Love it. Especially the slo-mo. Nice photography and great surfing!! Bravo!
Ha ha!
I see what you did there.
No mention of the soundtrack?
Fabulous. Last wave almost brought me to tears.
Congrats to surfer, filmer and muso.
Going to be solid here tomorrow. Great little rev up piece.
That was a joy to watch, I was transfixed watching Lachie's technique getting into the waves and down to the bottom. It works a treat and is quite unique, and suits the board. I note he gets his back foot planted just a tad earlier than his front foot, but it's all good as there are two hands on the deck (one is on the rail) so plenty of stability.
Great clip.
Agree with others on this footage, very emotive, cinematic. Filmer combines the raw beauty of water in it’s essence with the technical skills of the surfer. Very easy to watch. All in slow mo - hard to do.
COMPELLING!
Woah, some super heavy beatdowns but his persistence pays off. Some very heavy and shifty water there!
Epic clip, music suited the surfing perfectly. One clip where slow mo actually works.
Stu he reminds me of that Marlon guy you mentioned in your Indo trip re-cap. I saw him pack some hefty ones on what looked like to be an 8'0 or 8'6 on the big days there recently, he goes for it and isn't afraid to get lit up.
Balls of Steel. Fantastic clip
Yeah i really like that too. Even though that wave is nasty and Lachie is a master, it still felt more relatable somehow. Old mate signalling at the end was the cream on the cake.
sublime
99.99% perfect clip and experience captured..
Gas to see a big Lightning Bolt getting down the face of a big left again.
Loved it all.
Extra points for the lightning bolt paddle ins. Charging. What size would crew normally be riding? The hazards of allot of board in a lot of water or the hazard of not enough? Shifting take off, the crowd, dunking of the sets if possible and potential injury looking for a keeper.
Even Russel Bierke rides big boards there.
Loved the clip. The tempo and vibe of it. Even if I'm not a fan of late, almost-poked-the-nose takeoffs.
Surfed a 3 to 4ft beachy 4 or so years ago on a trip to south NSW with my son and this guy was out there on a 10ft something board switch footing getting barreled and out surfing everyone, and was a lovely bloke too, I think the longer board is his thing.
"I think the longer board is his thing."
Yep. Can understand and appreciate surfers fixating on one design and experimenting till they perfect it. Especially when it works in waves such as those shown.
FWIW a mate did a trip to Chile with Lachie many years ago, surfed some very big waves, and all the while he was riding sub-6" boards.
One way or another, he likes to push the extremes.
Did you catch my comment above re Marlon. Similar mindset I reckon
Nah, missed it, but I agree, both guys like to spin and go, confident they'll cope with whatever comes their way.
Hell of a season, ol Marlon is having, eh?
One to remember that’s for sure
What Marlon is that?
https://instagram.com/marlonhenderson?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
Geez, he got some keepers.
Marlon got that mindset from the longer board master. Brett Herring!
He learnt well!
WOW that was amazing to watch, the fact that a board that big was tombestoning is a testament to the power of the wave and the guts to surf it.
beautiful film - I even left the music on - for a change and good reason.
loved it