In simple terms, the surfing public will decide who will appear in the film and who will be awarded the coveted final section. |
The problem with watching ASP events online isn’t that they can run at odd hours or that the streaming is sometimes sub-par, or that the waves aren’t always that great. No, if you’re shackled to a desk, working for the man, the problem with online ASP events is that there’s not nearly enough of them. Sometimes you have no alternative but to get to work.
Taylor Steele may have a solution to this mess. His latest high performance movie (think Momentum, Campaign, Stranger Than Fiction, etc) has been tweaked to become an online, viewer judged, freesurf contest. In simple terms, the surfing public will decide who will appear in the film and who will be awarded the coveted final section.
Once you sign up for Innersection you effectively a judge, commentator and film critic all rolled into one. And that shit takes time. Beautiful, idle, daydreamy time spent thinking about surfing when you’re supposed to be balancing budgets, selling ring tones or whatever it is people do to keep the modern economy afloat.
In case you’re not up to speed here’s a little Innersection update. There’s four rounds which will decide the top 20 surfers. Round one has already been completed and the following five surfers (in descending order) made the cut: Nate Tyler, Mike Losness, Dylan Graves, Mikala Jones, and Nat Young.
You’ll notice an absence of Aussies in that list. Hopefully that will change in the next round, but it will, to some extent, come down to how many Australians sign up to become active judges. The innersection crew have gone to lengths to make this contest as fair as possible but there is no doubting emotional factors like unchecked patriotic fever will play a part.
“This isn’t so much a contest as it is a forum for discovering talent and proving who’s really deserving of sections in a place where space has become fairly limited,” explains Taylor Steele. “It’s definitely something of an experiment, right now, and I think of it more as an art project than a competition. We’re just creating a venue for people to show off their best work.”
Check it out for yourself at innersection.tv
By Kirk Owers