From Taxi Driver through to The Wolf of Wall Street via The King of Comedy and Goodfellas, his cinema specialises in antihero figures as hard to love as they are to look away from. The Raging Bull is back.But it’s not so in every case, and few film-makers have dedicated themselves to testing the viewer’s sympathies as consistently as Martin Scorsese. As we saw from Occy at Bells, that’s all it takes to make the fire burn brighter than ever.

The Raging Bull makes your best surfing easy from home to hard core surf trips, and it’s an easy decision to make if you’re only going to have one go-to board with you. This is the key to more paddle power, gliding over flat sections, and to again quote Occ, “lets you leave it on rail forever.” Essentially, this refers to JS maintaining a strategically generous distribution of volume throughout the board that goes hand in hand with thicker stock dimensions. Then finally, there’s Occ’s favourite part – as he calls it, the “Raging Bull thickness”. Moderate single concave starts under front foot, moving to double just before the fins to provide lift and more intuitive rail-to-rail transitions. A fuller nose with the wide point and extra thickness pushed forward combine with a flatter entry rocker to make it paddle fast and get into waves early, and then while surfing, generate and hold all of that extra speed.Ī pulled-in tail gives you control for turns and barrels in more critical conditions, while a touch more curve in the exit rocker adds manoeuvrability and release out of the lip. Compared with our other models built for quality surf, there’s a lot of differences here. User-friendly, but with the ability to handle heavier conditions and powerful surfers.

It has all of the elements Occ wanted to make performance surfing easy. The Raging Bull is an incredibly forgiving, versatile travel board that will be your go-to for better days at home and any time you’re lucky enough to be away chasing proper waves.

He’s in the water more, working on boards constantly with JS, and revisiting all of his old favourites to combine the best of the last decade with our next golden era… Right now. Over the last year, Occy’s fallen back in love with surfing all over again.

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