TESORO ENTERRADO

If you’re as handy as I am with Google translate, you’ll know that ‘TESORO ENTERRADO’ stands for ‘BURIED TREASURE’. If you’ve failed to finish ‘Spanish with Michel Thomas–Complete Course 8 CD Set’ as many times as I have (six), then you will have also felt the shame that I did, that you even had to use Google Translate to translate this title. Repeatedly not finishing stuff makes you feel like one pathetic loser. Not that Torren Martyn and wetsuit company Needessentials know anything about that though, they made a film! It’s called ‘TESORO ENTERRADO’ which stands for ‘BURIED TREASURE’. And let me just say mi amigos, mi gusta mucho (I’m basically fluent when it comes to that first CD). Here’s the trailer:

https://vimeo.com/348832896

Check back here for the full length that drops 9am Tuesday the 23rd. Until then here’s a little something that Torren had to say about the project:

“The little mission down south to warm water came around as a bit of a surprise to me too, I’d originally planned to just spend a week or two with my girlfriend Aiyana in California and pictured surfing knee to waist high Malibu at best.
One idea led to another as most good times do and before we really knew it Aiyana and I were rolling south of where we were currently camped out driving in awe through these beautiful snow capped mountains in the Eastern Sierras on a pretty straight mission south to a serious contrast of scenes, we were pretty excited!

A good mate Perry Gershkow was able to juggle a few commitments around up in his neck of the woods of SF and before we really had too much time to think we kind of just woke up the next day deep in central America, it was a classic little scenario.

I was travelling with two boards, a 7’2 and a 6’10. It’s so rare that I break a board, maybe one or two a year? anyhow I managed to break them both in the first couple of days.I guess I was rattled and disheartened when the first broke and then when the second went, I was kind of just baffled like haha really? luckily the local guys there have probably stitched together more boards than anyone anywhere else in the world so it was a pretty efficient little turn around, I was so grateful for that. Thankfully my mate Luke lent me his little 5’7 and a 4’11 for a little wiggle in between.

The waves we had down there were absolutely incredible, sort of mind boggling at times. It’s humbling the energy in the ocean and the way the sand and currents dictated where and what waves we surfed. They were there one day and gone the next. I think that was the beauty of it too, we didn’t really have any expectations or too much of a plan, things just fell in to place and I wouldn’t change a thing.

For me it was one of those spontaneous experiences made up of the combination of good people, the land, weather and a little luck on our side that are a friendly little reminder of just how lucky we all are to have this to share.

Happy days!”