Tracksmag.com recently spoke with freakishly talented 23-year-old aerial enigma Wade Goodall about being in the new Twilight movie, ruling in Billabong’s award winning Still Filthy DVD and the claim game epidemic happening at world tour events.

Tracksmag.com spoke with freakishly talented 23-year-old aerial enigma Wade Goodall about being in the new Twilight movie, stealing the show in Billabong’s award winning Still Filthy DVD and what he thinks about the claim game epidemic happening at world tour events.

Hello mate, what’s doing?

Lying in bed watching South Park.

Playing with your man bits?

Not yet.

Wait till American dad comes on?

[Sardonic laugh] Yeah.

You said something about Twilight on my message machine [facebook]?

I meant I’m in Canada among the trees and it’s like I’m in the middle of that Twilight movie.

Oh, I was hoping you’d been given a role as the surfer vampire with crazy hair in the Twilight movie Eclipse?

Nah, nah, just here for a comp and the waves are shitty, rad place though!

That’s a downer. Are you at least reading the Twilight books to get into the mood?

Fuck no I hate that shit – it’s for little girls. I always thought vampires were cool but they’re not that cool.

Bad time to tell you I’ve read them all?

Oh, come on! Those books are for little girls.

I had to change the male dominated narrative in my head.

I’ve been reading Les Norton’s books, so I’m going completely the other way. Books about a tough guy that drinks beers in one sip and shit.

Forget that then, how do you feel about having the best section in the new Billabong video, Still Filthy?

I don’t.

I had a feeling you’d say that.

It would have been really good if I did.

The other sections are rad, but I feel you stole the show.

Nah. It’s all personal preference.

Are you happy with the movie?

Um, yes, I guess. I don’t really know? It’s just a surf vid.

Have you seen the original Filthy Habits that was released in 1988?

Yeah and this one’s not like that. That one was rawer and had more to it, this one didn‘t quite turn out like that.

To think the guys in Filthy Habits (Richie Collins, Occy, Sunny Garcia) only were filmed a handful of times for their sections, which were amazing. Now days you guys film every session?

I guess it was harder to have a guy constantly travelling with ya and filming and shit back then. Every man and his dog has a camera now day’s. But those guys, yeah, that shit was pretty rad. Some of the cool sections (in Still Filthy) are like that, like Taj’s (Burrow) section, hey? You’ve seen them right? That shit was filmed in like two days. They’re always the coolest. You know when a sections been filmed over two years, it looks fake. They don’t put in any imperfections it always has to be all A class shit. I like people falling off and stuff.

Like when you witness a surfer you dig going for it having a dig and falling off. Then when he lands something big – you feel it?

It’s better seeing people that go for shit and not make it, and then finally make it and you’re, “Yes!”

Speaking of saying, “yes”, I missed those back hand full rotation rocktor-coptor airs I’d seen featured on the Runamuk site of you at home in the Still Filthy?

I didn’t get much of them in there no, I thought I had a bunch of that stuff on footage for the movie I sought of concentrated on other stuff and forgot. I’m stuck doing them again – I get really stuck doing them – they’re so fun.

Everything else was there in your section except that shit?

Oh, well. Hopefully I can get in something else and do some back hand airs. Do ‘em for two years straight [laughter].

Your section pops up third last – cool?

It doesn’t matter where you get.

Well it does. Guys like Taj and Jordy Smith nearly kill themselves trying to get the last section on movies. Grommets do look for it?

I thought it was like, that section, at the start you watch it and you’re all amped and stuff and then around the two thirds mark you’re kinda over it and looking for the Taj section. Fuck I just want this section to end and watch Taj’s section. And I think that’s where mines at… [laughter] The go past part.

Fodder before Parko and Taj’s section you reckon?

Yeah. I’ve already seen my section so many times that it bores me. Parko’s bullshit and doesn’t really have that much time to shoot free surfing. And he has other things on his mind like the world title.

Parko’s like a really good headline band, you don’t want to come on after him?

Yeah, and you don’t want to play before a big band and be shit. Worst still, after! Or you’ll look like a dick. Like Megadeath should never play after Slayer. I’m like a support band and just stoked to get a gig.

How’s your dig’s in Canada, living it up?

No, the QS (world qualifying series) is budget, there’s seven of us in this joint.

Here’s an idea, instead of going to the big events with all the top guys perhaps you could make mad coin going to lower rankled events with weaker fields?

It sounds good. But, if you do that and get knocked early and not make any cash you’re like, “fuck!” It’s worst to lose in those ones. Then you’re all; “I’m never going to make it in a six star.”

You’ve been spending a lot of time in the states this year?

Yeah. I’ve been there a bit and it’s been fun but not many waves. I’m trying doing this thing where I live somewhere other than home for at least two months of the year. I don’t wanna get stale at home. Fuck, there’ll be a time when I have to spend the rest of my fucking life there.

Okay, Mick and Parko?

Yeah, ripping. I’ve been watching those guys – Portugal was pumping. I only got the highlights but it’s been cool to watch, EXCEPT, THEY FUCKEN CLAIM EVERY WAVE! [Wade meant world tour surfers in general here – I’m pretty sure?] What is the deal with that?

Ah, the claim game?

It’s fucken stupid! There’s gotta be a limit? You can’t just claim everything. There should be rule you can only claim a wave in the last minute.

Right, like Bede (Durbidge) needed a 9.7 against Jordy got a ten! That’s claimable.

Hell yeah, you claim that shit. You don’t claim a head dip in the first five minutes. I’m not saying it’s gay or whatever these guys are the best in the world, I just don’t understand it. You don’t see a skateboarder or snowboarder fucking claiming every run, like every little air, “720 to claim, Mc twist to claim…”

– Col B