Presenting: Peter Devries... and Winter

Peter Devries ABSOLUTELY KILLS IT in this reel featuring British Columbia's coldest classics! This is not just a great surfer-profile film section- having won its way into Taylor Steele's most recent master piece, 'Innersection' as voted by you, 'the people', it is also raising the bar when it comes to documenting high performance surfing in challenging conditions. Something us northern Europeans have to deal with on a regular basis.
I can only speak for myself when I say, I am thoroughly tired of seeing the same old footage of pros in warm watered, electrical blue, pristine, barrelling-top to bottom, Indo perfection!
Why, I hear you ask... because I surf in the North East of England where the water is SHIT BROWN in colour AND consistency! There can't be too many places in the world where you leave the session a few skin tones darker than when you entered... and it aint due to the sunshine! There is NO sunshine in Yorkshire, it's part of what makes us Yorkshire folk so 'ard. Granted, we don't have to contend with sharks, swarms of jellyfish or black bears as t'old Peter here does, but we do occasionally have to deal with the odd nob head chav raining the lineup with hard sharp objects- bottles, stones, debris and the like. True story, it happened. I did see a porpoise in Whitby once, it had a tampon stuck in its blowhole. Poor fella.
Anyway, to get back on track, it's good to see such sick surfing by Mr Devries in such challenging conditions. It must be hard sticking on your 5 mil and boosting such phatty airs and maneuvers, that neoprene weighs a tone! I like watching this kind of stuff because, I suppose, it just seems a bit more real, which in turn illustrates that the kind of high performance surfing we all dream about can actually be done in our own waters, despite the cold, wind and rain. Something backed up by the success of our very own homegrown Reubyn Ash- making the grade with his entry into the next Innersection movie. I can't wait to see the British boy boosting with the big boys, YEEEWWWW!