Watch: 69 Tubes, 3 Turns, And A Jonah Hill Interrogation

Tosh Tudor has some confessions to make. 

It seems last year’s tube binge wasn’t quite enough to exorcise his demons, despite the fact the film was named after a therapy session. So now, to kill them suckers for good, he’s back with another tube-heavy film — this one named after a confessional.

Tube Therapy in 2024. Tubefession in 2025.

But what could young Tosh have to confess? By all accounts, both whispered and documented, Tosh is a refreshingly lovely young man. Though, he admits, he’s sometimes mistaken for something he’s not, occasionally cast as the product of his father’s loins, especially when travelling to places his old man, Joel, frequented when he was younger. 

“It’s definitely helped a lot with those connections he made when he was traveling younger,” Tosh says, speaking of his father’s trail of influence. “I’ve been lucky to grow into that, but I’m also trying to find my own places he hasn’t been. As cool as it is, you also run into people who don’t like him, and they try to portray his image on to me. I’m not him, you know? I’m just trying to be my own person, make my own friends.”

One person who definitely doesn’t like Tosh, in this film, anyway, is the man playing his FBI investigator, Jonah Hill. Hollywood’s funnyman turned Mid-90s auteur, golden globe nominee, and late-life Malibu soft-top enthusiast.

“Jonah’s actually just such a nice guy, and I see him all the time down here surfing in San Diego and in Malibu,” says Tosh. “And just through that, I kind of became friends with him, and he came and trained at my dad’s Jiu-Jitsu studio, and now they’re good friends.” 

Jonah, as you’ll recall, broke onto the scene around the same age Tosh is now (20), with Superbad, co-starring with Michael Cera, who, according to a select group of highly important voices, is the Tosh Tudor of Hollywood.

Nobody’s ever said that, of course, but listen to both of them talk for a minute and tell me you don’t hear the parallels. If surfing doesn’t work out for Tosh, well, the hills might be calling his name.

But the odds of Tosh not succeeding in surfing are about as slim as a CEO taking a pay cut. At 20 years old, he’s already one of the most instinctive, and arguably one of the best, tube riders on the planet. He’s crafted a style that’s uniquely his own, from the boards he rides (which he’s fine-tuned with Thomas Bexon) to the placement of his hooves, a technique he tried to demystify below.

“When I’m going backside, I always want to stay centred — keep my chest aligned instead of twisting sideways,” Tosh explains. “Because if you’re sideways, your butt’s gonna hit the wave, and that’s gonna slow you down or throw you off balance. I think that’s where my parallel stance came from. I want to be parallel with the face of the wave, just like I would be frontside, to keep that momentum and stay in that little ball, always moving forward.”

Tosh credits both Jack Robinson and Jamie O’Brien as early tube-riding influences, with the media kingpin’s tips coming courtesy of his YouTube channel.

“In an old JOB how-to video, he was talking about how, let’s say you’re goofy and going right—you need to turn your right ankle sideways, then push your hip into the wave. When I’d do that, I always tried to keep my chest forward instead of going fully sideways. Being sideways can work for a late drop, but after that, you want to stay centered. So I always try to have my chest facing forward, parallel to the wave face.”

And if one is on their frontside? 

“There’s a famous Gerry Lopez quote about how you just want to have your trailing hand touching the wave face, to guide you through the barrel. That’s pretty much it.” 

More of a visual learner? Watch Tosh put all of these techniques to work in Tubefession, filmed in Indonesia, Australia, Japan, Tahiti and beyond. According to Tosh, the film features exactly 69 tubes and just three turns. 

Can’t say I’ve ever seen a more provocative set of digits. Watch the film above.