Clay Marzo: Just Add Water

Let’s put aside the fact that Quicksilver’s newest DVD release, Clay Marzo: Just Add Water, transcends in many ways the standard surf video genre in both form and function.

Seriously, let’s forget that this film bravely delves into the personal challenges of not just an aspiring pro talent but also a young man recently diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome(a form of Autism).

And while we’re at it, let’s block out that this film interviews Marzo’s friends, family, and physicians who explain how Asperger Syndrome affects Marzo’s daily social interactions and helps viewers understand the challenges and gifts involved in this condition.

Go ahead, just close your ears to the heart-felt words of Marzo’s mother and illuminating information from his doctors that will surely give hope to anyone diagnosed with the same syndrome and help dispel ignorance surrounding Asperger Syndrome.

Okay, if you block all that stuff out, what you have left is a veritable shred fest of space age surfing. Lightning quick, rubbery, and artistic; teenager Clay Marzo attacks surf like a young Occy, leaving surf mates (like Dane Reynolds and Kelly Slater) looking just a bit slow.

Marzo’s low center of gravity, wide stance, and rubber yoga-lastic knees and spine allow him to put the pedal to the metal to stick even the most heinous of hacks and improbable punts.

All in all, Clay Marzo: Just Add Water rises with the incoming new wave of surf films striving to create something that lasts (surf flicks with extended shelf life you might say). In the same spirit of films like Busting down the Door, Just Add Water is human and emotional and honest. This film will teach and move viewers as well as entertain them with some great modern surfing from around the globe.