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Ever since racing came to be part of my life, I’ve put surfing on the back burner and haven’t gone out to chase waves nearly as much as I used to. It’s something I really regret and I’ve been slowly making amends by taking Tuesday morning off every week to surf with my good friend Jon Gih. For a little inspiration, I bought the latest and greatest surf flick, A Fly In The Champagne, featuring surfing’s greatest rivalry of all time: Kelly Slater and Andy Irons. To be honest, I didn’t know they hated each other so much.
Sure I’d seen interviews from movies and magazines in the past, but I always thought it was more the media doing its thing and not really the surfers themselves fanning the flames. For the first half of the movie, all you’re watching is Kelly and Andy talking about how bad they wanted to beat each other up. You can only take a few minutes of that kind of thing before you’re fed up and just want it to stop and get on with the surfing.
If you’ve seen Kelly and Andy’s older films, you’ll probably already have seen the footage they recycled and will want to skip all that. Once you get to the surfing, it’s incredible, as usual, and there’s no other way to describe it. You just have to see it for yourself and I think the DVD is worth buying for that much, just ignore the ten year long recap. Then again, not everyone has been following the drama for the last decade so you just might be interested.
