A Surfer You Don’t Know Catching Waves You Can’t Help But Watch

Here are the two of the safest bets you can make in surfing: Backhand snaps will get scores during the Australian leg of the Tour, and a swell will always land in the middle of the work week. Right now, let’s talk about the latter inconvenience. Because the video above is a visually pleasing display of one of the rare times conditions, waves and the weekend actually manages to line up.

“Aussie charger Tom Wadsworth and I made this on our days off,” says clip director, Zac Heath, in an email sent to Stab. “It’s pretty hard for Tom and I to even hang out, let alone chase swells considering we are both full-time tradies working in different states. So it was a pretty rare occurrence for a swell to line up during a window off work. We basically surfed and shot from the ski every morning with my Red camera wrapped in a raincoat as I couldn’t afford a housing yet until the onshore came up.”

How relatable! Using the weekend for a strike trip to avoid going insane being chained to work. And not to forget, absolutely scoring in doing so. Then piecing together a well-produced clip filled with more than a handful of noteworthy rides chronicling it all. And, yes, the irony of posting this in the middle of the week isn’t going by unnoticed.