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The music gives me the chills. The surfing looks pretty standard in the death defying sense. What you need to know here is that these three brainiacs thought it would be smart to film their documentary in Ireland in the dead of Winter…

Power of Three chronicles the quest of pro-surfer Tom Lowe and his buddies Fergal Smith and Mickey Smith to surf some unchartered waves. These days, apparently that means going to the frigid coastal waters of the Emerald Isle, for waves that are moving so fast you have to get pulled into them by a Jet Ski (read: no hand paddling, brah).

via The Telegraph

St Ives-based pro-surfer Tom Lowe and friends Fergal Smith and Mickey Smith have spent the past few months squaring up to vicious conditions on Ireland’s wild west coast, filming a stunning new surf movie. They were injured, almost drowned and encountered the kind of bitter weather that Lowe describes as “just stupid”.

In one heart-stopping moment Lowe was forced to dive and release a trapped surfer roped to a crushed board. In another, he suffered the unimaginable pain of a dislocated shoulder when an immense, 15ft tower of curling water collapsed on top of him. All this, during an almost transcendental quest to surf where others simply do not go.

To achieve this, Lowe and his friends took the unusual step of using a power ski to catch waves moving too fast for hand-paddle methods. Under motorised tow, they could match the speeding water – or suffer the consequences for bad timing.

I feel like these guys were offended, if not repulsed, by Step Into Liquid.


Power of Three is being released by Relentless Energy Drink and Carve Magazine on May 6.