Breaking Ice

photo courtesy SBC Surf magazine

I was out early the other morning, hunting around Halifax for a video camera. After losing faith in all appliances electronic I found myself wandering onto Blowers Street and into Dacane’s Surf Shop. Owner/operator and surf local Lance Moore was inside. I yelled as I made my way forward. I interrupted his reading but he seemed happy enough to see me. I had some questions about a used board I found for sale and he assured me the price was right.

I asked what he was reading and he passed me the new edition of SBC Surf, Canada’s surfing magazine. It just hit the stands. I started scanning through, and Lance grabbed it from my hands. He flipped it two thirds of the way through and there it was. Malcolm Johnson, SBC Surf Editor had caught the premiere of Breaking Ice: The Birth of a Canadian Surf Culture, and found fit to find a place in his magazine for his thoughts on my documentary.

 

When the lights went down for Breaking Ice, more than a few squares in the audience must’ve wondered what had hit them-their festival screen had suddenly been given over to wipeouts and cutbacks and noserides and freezing arse winter waves, all of it narrated by middle-aged men who, though seemingly normal, had built their lives around the outwardly insane pursuit of surfing in conditions cold enough to glaze inches of ice onto the rocks. Breaking Ice ended to a thunderous round of applause…”

Call it an ego boost, excitement or even a bit of vanity, but it’s always good to know others appreciate your work. I haven’t wiped the grin from my face yet.

The magazine is gorgeous. Great photography, well thought out articles, including pieces from local surfers Nico Manos and Neal Durling and an article on Maine transplant Dean Petty. To say the east coast of Canada is represented in this magazine is an under statement. Keep it up Malcolm, and hopefully instead of twice a year you can do this thing once a month.

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