How Can 1 Human Surf and Skate This Well?

Rage just dropped Shane’s first video part with the brand. “Shane Day” is essentially a welcome-to-the-team clip. It doesn’t focus on his skating (click here to watch him pop off concrete). Instead, he romps around several delightful Indonesian peaks with easy style and pizazz. Carve-to-tube combos, blowtails and clean straight airs that would make Noa Deane whistle, it’s all here. 

The crescendo comes at the end of the video, where Shane pops, spins and lands one of the bigger and cleaner backside air reverses we’ve seen in a long time. It’s a no-hands rotation that will make you sit up straight. "Maybe the best backside air reverse I've ever seen," Creed told Jed Smith on Aint That Swell. "It's huge. We almost chucked it in there three times, because it's so f--d up, this air."

There's so much content flying across the web these days, but when the best freesurfers in the world call attention to something, it's worth setting time aside. Scroll through the comments on Shane's Instagram and you’ll see a who's who of modern high-performance surfing giving props. Noa Deane: "F--d up man." Chippa Wilson: "F--n hell lad!" Eithan Osbnorn: “Absolutely huge.” Julian Wilson: “Off its head.” Taj Burrow called it “f–ing outrageous.”

High-level skaters are known for being hyper-aware of their body positioning. Spatial awareness is how one survives flying through the air. But make no mistake: Shane will get low and bury a rail. Until the next ramp comes, that is.