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LOCAL surf company Need Essentials has released its newest film, documenting world class free surfer Torren Martyn’s connection with a long-lost surfboard.

Rediscovering an Old Friend was all shot locally at Bells Beach across two major surfing swells in September.

The film centralises around Martyn’s visit to a friend’s house, where he unearthed an original 7’9″ channel bottom twin fin surfboard, tucked beneath a house for several years.

Rediscovering this old friend, the board was soon cleaned up, slipped into a board bag, and headed south to meet a Southern Ocean swell making its way toward the Victorian coast.

Martyn speeding down the line of a wave at Bells Beach. Photos: NEED ESSENTIALS/HARRY DOTT

True to its original intention, the surfboard came alive qu

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