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Watch: Jed and Vaughan’s Hot Take on the Only Surf Comp That Matters

It’s the 2021 Burleigh Heads Single Fin Festival … for single fins.

What happens when you take a dash of Ain’t That Swell, mix it with a healthy portion of Anchorman, and mix in a sprinkling of single-fin nostalgia? We’re not sure either, but it sure was entertaining to watch!

Here Jed and Vaughan team up with Funboys International to bring you a behind-the-scenes expose on the only surf comp worth a pinch of shit, the Burleigh Heads Single Fin Festival. Perhaps their description best does it justice.

ATS TV in Association with Funboys International, Billabong, Burleigh Boardriders Club and the Torched World of Sports invite you to enjoy The Greatest Surfing Contest in the World.

You’ll join X2 time Gold Cone Piece award-winning journalist Jed “Smivvy” Smith, and former New Brighton Boardriders U/15 Club Champion Vaughan “Rinsed Corn” Deadly at the birthplace of modern professional surfing, as they deliver a brutal behind-the-scenes expose of an event that is now considered one of the most important in the Australian sporting calendar.

Marvel at the wave riding skills of the world’s best surfers on superior vintage craft! Roar with disapproval at the design mutations invented by Mark Richards and Simon Anderson that sent performance surfing into the dark ages. Take in the sickening aroma of coconut oil boiling on leathery Queensland skin.

There’s no event like it and no event coverage that has been this cutting edge.

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YEAR: 2008
STARRING: JOEL PARKINSON, MICK FANNING AND DEAN MORRISON

This is the last time the original cooly kids were captured together and features some of their best surfing.

Their rivalry helped push each of them onto the world stage but their friendship endured. This is the last time the original cooly kids were captured together and features some of their best surfing.

A film by Shaggadelic Productions

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YEAR: 2011
STARRING: DAVID RASTOVICH, OZZIE WRIGHT, CRAIG ANDERSON, RY CRAIKE, DEAN MORRISON & MORE

Seven free surfers embark on a voyage to boldly go where no man had gone before.

Seven free surfers embarked on a voyage to boldly go where no man had gone before.

Not that long ago, in an island chain far, far away, seven free surfers embarked on a voyage to boldly go where no man had gone before. Equipped with an array of surfboards, a packet of crayons and two ukuleles, their chances of success were slim. In pursuit of perfection, they were forced to navigate under the radar of a fleet of imperial boat charters. Despite numerous obstacles, the rebel alliance of wave-riding beatniks continued to make Galactik Tracks into a new surfing cosmos; their search for a Nirvana reaching its climax when they arrived at… The Island of Nowhere.

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The film features the enigmatic and free-thinking Dave Rastovich at home on the Far North Coast of NSW.

Gathering is a short film from independent filmmaker Nathan Oldfield, the creator of the award-winning left of centre surf films Lines From a Poem, Seaworthy and The Heart & The Sea. The film features the enigmatic and free-thinking Dave Rastovich at home in the sacred playgrounds of the Far North Coast of New South Wales. The film explores Rastovich’s ideas around how the tension between the industrial and the natural in the surfing world unfolds in that place. Ultimately, Gathering celebrates how diversity and difference in ecosystems, relationships and surfing contribute to the preciousness of life. Gathering is easy on the eyes and ears and Tracks Magazine is proud to present it to you. Nathan Oldfield is a maverick, a filmmaker who wants a surf movie to say something important, to move us and make us grateful for the sea around us and the life within us. His films are quiet, beautiful and brimming with sacred purpose. Tim Winton, Acclaimed Australian Novelist

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YEAR: 2015
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In this quintessentially Australian film, the two friends ride waves with the nation’s best surfers.

From dreamy, north coast points to nights beneath starlit desert skies follow Luke Hynd and Mikey Wright as they embark on a surfing odyssey. In this quintessentially Australian film, the two friends ride waves with the nation’s best surfers, down beers with cantankerous locals and visit some of the more innocuous nooks of the continent’s rugged fringes. Wanderlust lets you rediscover the country and the coastline you love. Be careful, you might even be inspired to toss it all in and embark on your own journey around The Great Southern Land.

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