Remember That Indonesia Reef Pass You Need A Wetsuit, Helmet, And Booties To Surf?

Do you remember Timmy Turner?

No, not the cartoon protagonist of The Fairly OddParents, but the true, flesh-and-bone protagonist of Second Thoughts, the DIY surf movie that won Film of the Year at the 2004 Surfer Poll Awards.

In Second Thoughts, Timmy waits and watches for a wave called One Palm to break. It’s a notoriously good, notoriously shallow (like, exposed-reef-alongside-you-in-the-tube kind of shallow) left point off a notoriously remote island in Indonesia.

To surf it, Timmy, who pioneered this wave, prescribes three things: Booties, a 4/3 wetsuit (the water temp is 84 degrees by the way), and a helmet.

But, since What Youth did a feature on Timmy’s return to One Palm 10 years ago, we haven’t seen much of the place due to its being in the boondocks of the Indian Ocean and its characteristic fickleness.

But now, a decade later, more footage of this zone has appeared, in the form of Quinny Bruce’s new Rusty edit, “Hoo Root”, by Mitch Imgraben.

But, who is Quinny and what is this edit? We rang him to ask:

Stab: Who are you, Quinn Bruce? Age, hometown, and childhood celebrity crush please.

I’m a blue-collar 26-year-old from Coolangatta, Australia and my celebrity crush is Angelina Jolie.

What was the inspiration behind this clip?

When the realization of being on the tools every day to earn a crust sinks in, all you can think about is when the next surf trip is going to happen. The inspiration behind the clip was to showcase the funny times had in and out of the water in between job sites and to not take things too seriously. Hopefully it attracts a bit of support to hunt some more surfing adventures in the near future. 

Funniest story from the making of “Hoo Roo”?

I’ll let Mitch (the film’s director) answer this one. [From Mitch:] “We stayed on a boat (with no toilet) for 12 days and scored every single day. I think it was Day Three of the trip and Quinn decided to go face first into a coral head one afternoon as the sun was setting. The wave is ridiculously shallow, the boys were covered head to toe in neoprene plus helmets. Quinny hit the one part of his whole body that wasn’t protected.

“We got him back to the boat and noticed a decent gash in his chin and a few other cuts around his lip. His nose was really swollen also. He’s lucky he didn’t knock himself unconscious! The injuries weren’t life threatening but he needed to be stitched up. A guy from another boat offered to help out as he had experience doing stitches before. Quinn had so much coral stuck in his chin, it took some time getting him cleaned up.

“We bought a bunch of medical supplies in Jakarta for this very situation but what we didn’t know was that the Lidocaine we had bought was expired. After 5 or 6 attempts injecting the local anesthetic into his chin, he expressed he could still feel everything and to ‘just get on with it.’

“That moment stuck with us the entire trip. Quinn was back in the water a couple days later. But, he had to see a doctor months after the trip because the cut was still getting infected and we didn’t clean all the coral out properly.”

One last thing: what is the point of life, Quinn?

The point of life is to never hold back and keep enjoying yourself. Death comes to us all so don’t die wondering. Keep fucking smiling, do what you want, say what you want and never stop having fun. 

Memento Mori.