The concept. The ask. The planning, the waiting, the fear… all leading up to one of surfing’s gnarliest and newest events.
Watch the Crew Season 3 – Episode 4 for free below; and if you want more the first 3 eps of each season are currently free for everyone on Garage here:
http://www.garage.com.au/tv/surf-skate/the-crew-season-3/
‘Welcome to red bull cape fear, technically this is the last day of the waiting period would you believe’ began the broadcast of the inaugural event in 2014…
Several years in the planning, Red Bull Cape Fear was conceived by Mark Mathews :
‘What we do is we have like two battles and we put them in the water at the same time and that way like the two different battles that are going on are overlapping and it’s a priority system so at the time when Jamie and Ryan were surfing, like they had priority and then Shane and myself would paddle out and we would be able to surf under priority and take off on any waves that they weren’t catching. And the whole idea about that is to sort of maximize as many waves that are coming through and have there be as much action for viewers to watch as possible’.
