For a satirist, modern surfing is, as they say, a target-rich environment. From woo-woo at Canggu to theWorld Surf League, surf culture has never had so many absurd corners. In fact, the only problem for the satirist is that modern surfing is sometimes soooo absurd you couldn’t possibly take the piss out of it better than it does itself. But for almost a decade, New Zealand’s Luke Cederman and his Raglan Surf Report has gone there, skewering surf culture with mini-mockumentaries, Flight of the Conchords meets a Surfline cam. A former pro surfer himself, he’s made a career taking the piss out of pro surfers and everyday surf culture, saying more about surfing with a two-minute skit than a thousand Inertia articles could ever do. We find him at Uluwatu,…
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Surfing World (Digital) - 1 Issue, Issue 424