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Kael Walsh Is Taking Four Minutes From You

Loud, raw surfing from one of WA’s finest.

cinema // Mar 20, 2018
Words by stab
Reading Time: < 1 minute

Raw. Loud. Loose. Fast. Soft. Four of those words could be used to describe Kael Walsh’s surfing.

Soft? It is anything but soft.

The 18-year-old from Western Australia just dropped a new edit called “Zond” and it will, justifiably, steel your next four minutes.

Half the clips were filmed in Sumatra during Quiksilver’s Young Guns Surf trip. Half the clips were filmed in Hawaii a few months ago.

“I wanna do what Mikey Wright did,” Kael told Stab. “Work on surfing the way I want to surf and put out some edits, then maybe start to think more about competing more in a few years.”

You need not strain your eyes to see shades of Mikey in Kael’s surfing. Hit play and try to tell us we’re wrong.

 

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