VBS’s School Of Surf: Red Bull Rider’s Cup
September 14, 2008 – 5:00 pm PT by MeTags: Red Bull Riders Cup, VBS.TV —
The VBS people just came out with another pretty extreme series called “School Of Surf”. At first I thought it was going to be something like that movie “Surf School” starring one of my favorite singers/actors Sisqo (Thong Song). But to my dismay it’s actually about The Red Bull Rider’s Cup, which is a surf contest like no other. It takes on the team format for high school students to compete against other schools. This is a bit of what Jake Burghart, the producer of this series had to say about the Red Bull Rider’s Cup.
When we first heard of this contest we were like, whatever—not interested. Surf contests are boring. Then we got a call from Brad Gerlach, big-wave surfer and one of my childhood heroes. That kinda changed things. We went out to visit Brad in California, and over a few beers he explained his longtime absence from surf contests, saying that he just wasn’t having fun anymore and he wanted to get back to “the essence of surfing.”
