School of Surf - Red Bull Riders Cup - The Wet Reality of High School Surf

Since Hi Shred is on hiatus (don't worry we will back), I wanted to hit you and your readers up about a new sweet series to fill that Hi Shred hole and just in time for going back to school!!!

So on Monday September 8th VBS.tv heads class with our new surf documentary "School of Surf: The Red Bull Riders Cup".

A while ago you may remember when we went out and filmed the Billabong Pipemasters. Well this time around we wanted to find the Pipemasters of tomorrow competing in the surf today. The next Mick, Ian, or Jamie.

But this is not a normal surf doc, this is a VBS surf doc, so you can expect the deep look at this high school sport and lifestyle. You see the surfers on the beach as much as you do shredding in the water.

So we teamed up with the National Surf League who along with Red Bull run what is known as the Red Bull Riders Cup. The Red Bull Riders Cup is the numero uno high school surfing tournament that pits 24 schools from six regions against each other in single-elimination rounds until the best school is left shredding. It follows “The Game” format, which is modeled after traditional team sports and conceived by former Pro Surfer Brad Gerlach from the National Surf League.

You can watch the new trailer here.

As well as learn more about their reality by going here.

Within hours after hanging out we were so wrapped up in all the relationship drama, family pressures, teenage riffing, and damn good surfing that by the time we looked at our watches, we realized we had shot an entire series and grown long scraggly beards. It was like the surfing equivalent of getting sucked into a Sunday afternoon Degrassi marathon.

The series gives you a detailed inside look at high school surf culture in and out of the water. School Of Surf chronicles the contrast between the blessed beach town surf kids of Sourthern California to the cold water warriors of the New Jersey shore. It follows the struggles of your average high school kid looking to carve a place for himself as pro surfer all while trying to graduate school and leave the surf team on a winning note by taking the national championships.

This 15 webisode documentary on the wet reality of varsity high school surfing will run over three weeks, starting on September 8th on online TV network VBS.

See you in class!!! Stay awesome!

- VBS.tv