Stab in the Dark: Ethan Ewing (2026)
A meticulous surfer, 13 mystery surfboards and six days in Indonesia. Ethan Ewing enters the dark with no logos, no labels and no idea what’s under his feet — just an obsessive eye for equipment and a lot of high-performance surfing to get through.
“Incredible series. As always, the editing and storytelling were on point. This was one of those beautiful intersections of an amazing surfer in perfect waves, surfing at his absolute prime. Every board got a fair test in proper waves. Felt like the most legitimate and well-earned win of any SITD.”
– @hdog69420 (Stab Premium member)
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Stab in the Dark X: Kelly Slater (2025)
The greatest surfer of all time, stripped of every familiar reference point. Kelly Slater takes 13 anonymous surfboards into the Indonesian jungle, searching for something that can still surprise him after a lifetime spent chasing the perfect ride.
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Stab in the Dark: Kolohe Andino (2024)
Kolohe Andino has spent his life thinking about surfboards. Now, with 13 anonymous shapes and no logos to lean on, he heads to Indonesia for a deeply personal experiment in equipment, instinct and the strange business of finding something better.
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Stab in the Dark: Italo Ferreira (2023)
An Olympic gold medallist, a tropical island and 13 boards he didn’t choose. Italo Ferreira heads to Fernando de Noronha for a blind date with the surf industry, where explosive surfing meets unfamiliar equipment and instinct gets the final say.
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Stab in the Dark: Jack Robinson (2022)
Jack Robinson has the kind of surfing that makes equipment look almost irrelevant. But put him in Indonesia with 13 mystery boards and six days of perfect waves, and suddenly every rail, rocker and ounce of foam matters. Welcome to the dark.
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Stab in the Dark: Taj Burrow (2021)
Taj Burrow has been surfing long enough to know exactly what he likes — which makes giving him 13 boards he’s never seen before a particularly interesting proposition. In the Mentawais, a lifetime of instinct meets a quiver built entirely by someone else.
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Past SITD films (pre-2020)
Before the launch of Premium, each season was released as a standalone feature film. Pairing one of surfing’s best with a quiver of anonymous boards from the world’s leading shapers, the original format blended surf filmmaking with blind board testing, stripping away logos and reputations to focus purely on performance.
