Timo Simmers Is Doing The Bare Minimum, And We Love Him For It

As far as occupations go, ‘professional surfer’ is becoming one of the biggest lies you can tell a kid.

If only they knew that it’s pretty much a job in media, with religious gym attendance, physio appointments, managing travel logistics and videographer schedules, and still having to rip, maybe they’d just focus on making money elsewhere and keep surfing as a hobby, like most of us.

A lot of what reaches our glowing rectangles now comes from a new breed of hyperproductive, multi-hyphenated individuals.

But somewhere along the line, their endless output started producing diminishing emotional returns, making surf media fatigue an actual condition and leaving us wanting a little less every day.

Timo Simmers has opted out of the current infrastructure, doing the bare minimum in most of the other stuff, except surfing.

Shot like a homemade sponsor-me tape, Agua Dynamics is presented unapologetically, deadpan, and with almost clinical bluntness. This is my edit, these are my boards, that is all, thanks for coming, etc.

The surfing is excellent enough to carry the lightness of that simplicity.

And if his restraint, resistance, or refusal to become part of today’s horde of overprofessionalised but severely underpaid surfers interests you, his appearance on StabMic is a great place to learn more about Timothy Simmers.

But watch this first.