Mark is a Big Wave Surfer. He dreams of being the best.

Richie, Mark’s best mate shares his love of Big Wave Surfing but has his own ambitions.

A carpet layer by day, Richie dreams of becoming a MMA Cage-Fighting Champion.
Both are fearless, living life on the edge, daring each other to surf bigger waves, party harder, take greater risks.

But when their adrenalin-seeking antics & hardened partying turns sour, it sets in motion a dramatic and life-changing series of events that threatens to derail everything they have worked so hard for.

In an instant, Mark’s Big Wave surfing career is in tatters & Richie is facing a jail term.
But for these two friends, giving up is not an option.

It’s not the mistakes you make but how you overcome them.

Their unwavering friendship gives them the courage to battle their demons, rise up from their troubled past & conquer their fears.

One good friend can change your life.

This feature-length docu-drama, told through the eyes of the two friends, Pro-surfer Mark Mathews and MMA fighter Richie Vaculik and filmed over three years, provides a unique and candid insight into the tumultuous life of two world-class athletes facing against-all-odds personal challenges. This is the second feature film by exciting new Australian talent, Macario De Souza, co-director of BRA BOYS, the highest grossing Australian documentary (non-imax) of all time. Aged just 27, Macario not only wrote, directed, edited, shot and produced FIGHTING FEAR but as Kid Mac wrote and performed five songs on the soundtrack.

With a rip-roaring soundtrack and featuring entertaining & insightful interviews from some of the world’s most influential action sports athletes, including ten-time World Surfing Champion Kelly Slater, two- time World Surfing Champion Mick Fanning, Big Wave Surfer Bruce Irons, three-time Women’s World Surfing Champion Steph Gilmore & two-time UFC World Champion BJ Penn, FIGHTING FEAR is a jaw-dropping action-packed documentary that is surprisingly emotional, powerfully uplifting & utterly compelling.
FIGHTING FEAR is inspirational, heart-stopping entertainment.

“FIGHTING FEAR” One Good Friend Can Change Your Life! …

Become a friend of www.facebook.com/fightingfear <http://www.facebook.com/fightingfear> & check the first teaser of an excerpt from the upcoming film “Fighting Fear”.

Starring Mark Mathews & Richie Vaculik who along with some friends surfed one of the world’s heaviest waves “Ours” (Sydney, Australia) from midnight till sunrise the next morning.

“Fighting Fear” follows the lives of these 2 best friends through their ups and down in pursuit of their dreams and the story of their friendship.
Directed by Macario De Souza (Co-Director of the highest grossing documentary in Australian history, “Bra Boys”).

More info about the Global release of the movie will be available soon

www.fightingfearthefilm.com <http://www.fightingfearthefilm.com>

A free Gooru Jacket, valued at R899

Its that time of the year again. The land breezes are just about to start puffing in the morning, the temperature are dropping slightly, and the windchill factor is starting to become a part of our surfing world.

O’Neill South Africa, and more specifically the O’Neill Concept Store in Gateway, Durban, have come up with a radical solution for the winter chills.

It’s pretty simple really. The day is divided into two main parts when you go surfing. The cold morning session, and then the much warmer later session when the sun is streaming down and the land breeze has backed off.

For the cold morning session you need the Gooru Shortsleeve Fullsuit. This suit is only R1999, but if you buy one during the month of April from the O’Neill Concept Store in Gateway you score a FREE GOORU JACKET valued at R899. That’s a pretty darn good deal, even if we say so ourselves.

The technical features of the Gooru Shortsleeve Full Wetsuit.

Jordy in Hawaii 2010/2011 season ©Kolesky/Nikon/RedBull

Don’t forget the Jordy Smith Psycho Surf Day presented by O’Neill. It is a free surfing session for the groms to come and surf with Jordy Smith, and will take place at North Beach in Durban at 9Am on Saturday the 12 February. After the surf, Jordy is going to pick out the grom who in his opinion surfed the best, and present him with a prize of a new board, signed by him, as well as a new O’Neill Psycho 2 full wetsuit. The presentation will happen at 11 am up at Durban Surf.

O’Neill have also invited the Umthombo kids down and will be presenting one of them with a Jordy Smith bursary, which will be an O’Neill wetsuit and clothing sponsorship, as well as a surfboard sponsorship for Gee Force for 2011.

The Jordy Smith bursary will go to the surfer who has surfed the best and has excelled the most last year in learning basic life skills. Jordy and O’Neill ill also be contributing financially to the program to help the Umthombo kids with learning basic life skills. O’Neill will be purchasing a video camera and a compute to enable the kids to start learning and editing their own clips.

Finally, O’Neill will also be running 6 training camps for the Umthombo kids during 2011 to help them with their surfing progress.

For more information on Umthombo check out the website http://www.umthombo.org

Check out the Umhtombo children out the Transworld Sports youtube video.

Jordy jamming © Kolesky/Nikon/RedBull

A cool clip of Jordy surfing in Hawaii. All footage by Craig Kolesky.

Jordy and friends in Hawaii from craig jarvis on Vimeo.