From hanging five to ripping, tearing, and lacerating, Alex Knost's surfing exerts a POMO sensibility - there's a bit of everything in his loose-limbed act.
This time it's atop a Campbell Brothers Bonzer on the SoCal pointbreaks.
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got an old pt tubeshooter . say 74 ish , bonzer love it .
I really want to like it.....but I just can't.
It just seems too self-consciously showy.....all hat and no cattle.
Whats POMO Stu?
POMO = Postmodern
His style is a grab bag of tricks from every era.
Gotta agree with you RE showmanship. Seems more about lookz than feelz.
....buuuuut it sometimes looks good!
fashions had a serious drought for a long while......
fashions had a serious drought for a long while......
Poor mans Ryan Burch...thumbs down from me
There's a sequence of Richo surfing Aussie Pipe in Steve Core's film Ocean Rhythms.......just insane beautiful, stylish surfing on a bonzer which blows this out of the water.
This is a cover act, a bad cover act: nowhere near as good as the original.
totally agree there . the guy is such a try hard it makes me sick . but it is byron bay . the place is full of these wanks , and there comeing to a town near you . lol
Ahh yeah but it’s not Byron
That was pretty lame. But at least it wasn't air after air.
Yeah, something a bit different, but the board doesn’t seem to go that well. Doesn’t look like it wants to go on rail. I reckon he’s nursing it through most of those turns. Probably the length more than anything else.
How to ride a Bonzer:
Absolutely ripping...
OK, how do his knees and hips handle all this "ripping, tearing, and lacerating"? Been doing a similar style and level of surfing for the past half-a decade on similar equipment and everything aches so badly!
Decided to have a look FR - here's some footage of Terry Richo presumably on a bonzer, definitely a far, far superior surfer to old mate in the video above.
Some of Richo's forehand cutties are searing.
Fuck yeah , that was so much better.
The POMO in the Knost clip was painful to watch. It’s not about the Feelz when the pretension involved removes you from the moment. The irony being that Knost’s whole deal is standing apart from the despised Jock Mentality , yet his act would require just as much of a premeditated game plan as any comp surfer.
Takeaway the spontaneous vibe and you’re left with derivative c grade surfing.
Having said that ....it was still fun to watch. Turns out you can be a critic and still just love watching surfing.
That old footage is so frustrating how they zoomed in on the surfer and you can't see the rest of the wave. He's ripping no doubt though. I gotta surf down there one day.
Try watching Morning of the Earth, Spud. It's so frustrating! All those beautiful points, and all you see is the surfer.
Was actually thinking of you when I watched that Richo footage. You should do a goofy pilgrimage.
It's been on the cards for 30 years. Indonesia got in the way though!
...Seems appropriate this guy is sponsored by Vanity Fair Corporation....
Does anyone know what that first song is?
He’s a very showy, look at me surfer. Obviously talented.
I thought that wasn’t as hard to watch as some of his other clips, although i recall seeing a clip of this insane forehand layback tube stance thing he did that I thought was pretty epic
Roxy Music - If There Is Something
Heck, Bryan Ferry was good before he went all soft and wobbly.
Thanks IB, and that footage of Robbo is great
Great music, but the surfing, not for me. Looked like he had to try really hard to get that thing to move around and that ended up making him look bad. Would have surfed that point much better on a different board.
Russ Short
Jeez, that was nice surfing. Could've watched much more of that.
I think the board is fine but Knost just tries too damn hard to fit, contort and squeeze 20 different things in on one wave. Kid needs to take a chill pill and watch how Joel Tudor does it
I actually enjoy alex knost from time to time.
This one didn't do it for me. Board looked too stiff and boggy as Craig said above.
Sinking tail, long length of rail. Cheyne, Geoff and soon after Simon solved that.
You could put the design into a more area back type board and get surfing like Robbo's above. Even Terry has more area in the tail of his bonzer. I can see where Alex is getting the cheater 5 approach after seeing the footage of Russ Short.
Edit: the flow was nice though. And that edged version he paddled in later both looked more of a struggle to get in, but also far more responsive.
You guys will love this then: https://stabmag.com/stabcinema/interview-alex-knost-and-jack-lynch-intr…
Nobody notice the rather savage drop in at 1:15 ?
not very nice
its a different clip to the other day
Ah yes. Acolytes of the mystical Morning of the Earth. No smoke comes out of a cars in that world. No film processing chemicals. No blank waste or fibreglass dust. They didn't use modern technology at all. Country soul, like in the magazines which advertised the lifestyle. It was way ahead of it's time - the original reality TV show - the prototype of Bondi Rescue.