Searching for Dillion Perillo is Worth Your Time

Surfing doesn’t just reward talent, to make it you need style and flair combined with a willingness to graft and grind the social grist machine. Sometimes it doesn’t pay to be too full of smarts or think too much about your alternative economic potential. Does surfing pay? Not for most, but it sure is fun.

“Dillon’s one of my favourite surfers of all time, but he wouldn’t believe me if I told him that.” Says Dane Reynolds if this edit. “We travelled together extensively filming for various projects right up to when his sponsors pulled the pin. I was kind of a jerk, when he asked me if Former would sponsor him I said we could use an accountant as a joke.

“The truth was we were just in no position to sponsor someone as a barely fledging business. Dillon flipped the script and went back to school to study economics. I didn’t see much of him for a few years and when we did see each other I’d make frat boy jokes and I still don’t know if he hated my guts but he says he never hated me when I ask.

“Hunter and I have been talking about making a ‘Searching for Dillon Perillo’ film for a few years cause he vanished suddenly from the spotlight, and obviously, it’s a parody of one of my favourite films ‘Searching for Tom Curren’ but we’re both huge fans of his surfing and wanted to do a Chapter 11 vid on him to update the surf world.

“Then he came on this trip with us, and here we are. I didn’t see Dillon on many waves in person on this trip, I cut my dome during the best part of the swell, and I rarely saw his waves from the front when we did surf together. When I saw the footage I was blown away, not many people surf like this. His style and technical ability are an insane combination. I’m stoked to showcase his surfing and tell his story, hope you enjoy!”