The movie should be finished by the end of June and is to be premiered around southern California. That information will be available on his blog (Christianwach.blogspot.com) by the end of June.This is just the first to come of many projects in the future.

Their enthusiasm was a bit overwhelming to be honest, but I love this sort of stuff so we got stuck in. Matt (Williams, my apprentice) really took charge, which is a dream for me because I could basically talk story, drink beer, and take all the credit. It was a real buzz to see the guys take up the tools and charge. I wish I could have done this when I was a kid – I messed up my parents’ garage something awful with foam and resin when I started making boards.

I couldn’t stop myself so I helped (took over) the making of Christian’s board. We started at 11:30am, and at 3:30pm one of the boys asked if we could take the boards out this afternoon. By 4:10pm the boards were finished to a fine surfing standard and we were off to Little Cove.

The surf was perfect – it has been perfect a lot lately – and George and Cameron went out on their new boards. I was so stoked when Christian took out the ‘Tuna 4’ first and got a few waves for me to film. He got some long rides in the pocket and he was so stoked. Then he took out his new alaia and was even more stoked.

I drank another beer and filmed from the rock, then I got a few on the Tuna. Gee, I love that board. Actually, the board isn’t perfect, it’s the addicting glide that’s the rush.

Yes it is! You can stop reading now if you like and just go buy it if you are short of time.

The title may seem an odd one but it’s a reference to an old Dead Kennedys’ record, a seminal SoCal punk band that you should check out if you don’t know already. The film itself sits very much in the surf flick category rather than the art film camp a la Thomas Campbell and friends. This is not in any way a derogatory comment, plenty of care and attention has been lavished on it. The footage is well shot, varied and well lit and the editing is slick, innovative and not so ‘pop video’ as to be intrusive.

There’s a pretty much 50-50 split of progressive and traditional longboarding along with a sprinkling of shortboards, fish, hulls and the now obligatory alaia shots. Highlights on the progressive side are probably Harley Ingleby’s full bore style, Taylor Jensen pulling legitimate airs on a 9 footer and Beau Young, Bonga and friends charging barrels in Indo. There’s even a glimpse of our own Elliot Dudley if you are sharp eyed!

From a traditional perspective there is some mindblowing  noseriding and so much good stuff it’s difficult to summarise. one thing that is clear is how much the standard has gone through the roof in the last five years. People are pulling stuff that was not even thought possible a few years ago, take Chad Marshall’s fins first hang heels for example. (Take a moment to visualise that – mental!) It’s a comment that is particularly true of the girls’ side, with Kassia Meador now pulling smooth hang heels and hang five foot drags seemingly at will.

Elsewhere, Knost is Knost, Pickle is smooth, Jai Lee & DP rule Noosa and CJ Nelson is still one of the most talented surfers around. It was good to see some current footage of Tudor too.

I always think that the test of a good surf film is whether it makes you want to get to the beach afterwards. In this case it’s a resounding “Yes!”