There’s a conundrum in modern day professional free surfing.
On one hand, cameras are everywhere these days, increasing visibility for these surfers who rely on clips and edits and videos as a main part of their livelihoods.
Then, on the other, someone else – other than their filmer – may capture their best clips on the best day, then upload it. The clips are in the wild. The surfer may have been saving those clips for their own project. But the world has already seen them.
That’s exactly the case with the above, featuring San Diego pro free surfer and YouTuber, Jacob “Zeke” Szekely, who called out “random filmers” for “blowing out the spot” and uploading the best clips before the surfers had the chance to do it themselves.
Here’s the whole tirade:
“I’m sick and tired of all these random filmers that come out of nowhere on the day of the year, film spot, go home, and upload it to YouTube that night. [They’re] blowing out the spot, blowing out the swell with landmarks of the spot.
“Even if pros are out there saving clips for a movie. I always ask them. I have tons of friends who are doing the same thing.
“Then, I don’t wanna name any names, but we all know who it is, a guy that should know better took it way too far by uploading a raw session video the same day with landmarks. All of the pros best clips that they might be saving for a f*cking movie…just straight to YouTube that night, and then have Stab [Magazine] promote it.
“You took it way too far, man, and everyone in my hometown is pissed off at you about it.
“I just gotta come on here to say something about it, because nobody else is going to speak out. I don’t give a f*ck about what people think. I’m sick and tired of these lame ass filmers stealing our credit.
“We go out there and put our lives on the line, risk it all, pay filmers to film us…then when I go home to edit my video, there’s already 10 raw session videos out there with the same clips.
“Respect the surfers. Respect the lineups. Respect the locals.”
Shots fired.
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