In The Wind Tee - Inspired by TSOL and The Surfing Movie by Jack McCoy

The name “In The Wind” comes from one of my all-time favorite surf films, created by legendary filmmaker Jack McCoy for Billabong. At the time, Bob Hurley and Paul Gomez were running Billabong USA, and the film captured that incredible era of surf culture when the imagery, surfing and music all came together in a really unique way.

One of the standout sections of the movie features Chris Brown and Peter King surfing in Cabo San Lucas, backed by the song “In The Wind” by TSOL, with Joe Wood on vocals. The song and the surfing fit together perfectly and became one of those combinations that stayed with me over the years. Jack McCoy had a real talent for finding great music to complement his surf films, and his soundtracks were often just as memorable as the surfing itself. That combination of music, film, travel and surf culture is what inspired the name “In The Wind” for this Sea Of Seven design.

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The graphic is a drawing based on one of my photographs of Brody McLaughlin racing his 1979 Yamaha YZ250 at Lake Perris. There was something about the moment—the bike, the speed, the dust, and Brody out there riding—that captured that unmistakable feeling of being In The Wind.