Dave Ogle

If you’re wondering why I haven’t posted any videos lately, I’ve been a little busy I will hopefully get back to my regular postings soon 🙏

After releasing ‘Puerto Underground 2’ in 1996 and before the release of ‘Puerto Underground 3’ in 2004, I created Reflection in 2002. Reflection is a travel-based surf film that showcases some of the best longboarders in the world surfing some of the most iconic waves across the 🌎 Throughout the mid-‘90s and into the 2000s, I traveled extensively with the ASP World Tour of Surfing as the water cameraman for their events, and this was before jet skis were part of the scene so I did a lot of swimming. They would fly me from Puerto Escondido through Mexico City to their contest locations all over the world. During that time, I did a lot of shooting on my own and since I’ve always been really into longboarding and have so many friends in that world, I wanted to document that incredible side of surfing. This is a short trailer of my third surf film Reflection 🤙 If anybody is interested in purchasing any of my surf DVDs, please send me a text 310.701.1996 *I can only ship within the United States #reflectionsurfmovie #puertoundergroundmovies #surfingpuertoescondido #puertoescondidomexico #malibubeach #surfrider #longboarding #puertoundergroundarchives #shotinoglevision

Puerto Underground 4 ‘Alma y Corazon’ was the last of the surf movies in the Puerto Underground series that I made. I released Puerto Underground 4 in 2006. In this final episode, I wanted to highlight how much the local surfers had progressed through the years, and of course there is all the same carnage and eye candy as the previous three. Through the years, I was very fortunate to be one of the only video cameras capturing all of these incredible memories with very few other people documenting things other than a few still photographers. I spent 15 years living in that paradise, surfing and documenting some of the best times of my life! I still have DVDs of all 4 of the Puerto Underground movies if anybody is interested in picking up a DVD, please reach out. (I can only ship within the United States) Text me for orders Dave 310.701.1996 #puertounderground #puertoundergroundmovies #puertoundergroundsurfmovies #surfingpuertoescondido #puertoescondidomexico #puertoescondidooaxaca #puertoescondido #puertoundergroundarchives #shotinoglevision

I didn’t release my 3rd installment of the Puerto Underground series titled Puerto Underground 3 - ‘Con Huevos’ until 2004. Right around the year 2000, computer editing started becoming available to the non professional public and that changed my world dramatically and the early versions of Final Cut Pro became my best friend. All of a sudden I was able to do my edits on a computer instead of a giant 1” linear based system. I wanted to throw a big shout out to Scotty Carter @scottycarterart , who let me live in his garage editing studio for 3 months while editing Puerto Underground 2. Scotty made bodyboarding videos so I would trade him my best bodyboarding footage for time in his editing bay. I would literally wake up every morning and edit for the entire day living on a diet of pizza and Jack Daniels. This is a short clip of some of the highlights of Puerto Underground 3 ‘Con Huevos’ I still have DVDs of all 4 movies available if anybody is interested, please reach out via text 310.701.1996 🤙 #puertounderground #puertoundergroundmovies #surfingpuertoescondido #puertoundergroundsurfmovies #puertoescondidomexico #puertoescondidooaxaca #puertoescondido #puertoundergroundarchives #shotinoglevision

Making the first Puerto Underground movie in the early 90s was quite a learning experience for me and definitely not an easy task before video editing became more mainstream with the use of computers. By the mid 90s I was getting the surf movie making process pretty dialed in. I hired a full-time cameraman to help with the shooting (also to allow me to surf more and work less😜) I did all of the editing and arranged all of the music with the band managers and the labels for the soundtracks. In 1996 I released Puerto Underground 2 and in that same year my movie won the ‘Best Tube of the Year’ award at the Surfer Magazine Poll Awards for Todd Morcom‘s tube ride. I never set out to make money on any of these movies. It was a labor of passion as well as a way of entertaining all of my friends. I just wanted to make enough money to cover all of my costs (which I barely accomplished). This is a short edit of some of the highlights of my second surf movie, Puerto Underground 2. I still have DVDs of all four movies if anybody is interested, please send me a message 🤙 #puertounderground #puertoundergroundmovies #puertoundergroundsurfmovies #surfingpuertoescondido #puertoescondidomexico #puertoescondido #puertoundergroundarchives #shotinoglevision

When I originally moved to Puerto Escondido in the early 90s, my goal was not to make surf videos. I planned on spending a year there teaching English and, more importantly, surfing heavy beach break barrels in warm water. While there, as a budding filmmaker with a small video camera, I started documenting all the amazing things that made up this incredible coastline to show my family and friends. I ended up living there for almost 15 years and in that time I made 4 internationally selling surf videos, the Puerto Underground Series. This edit is a short excerpt from my very first surf movie, Puerto Underground #1 I still have DVDs of all four movies if anybody is interested. They are $20 each (but I can only ship within the United States) #puertounderground #puertoundergroundmovies #puertoundergroundsurfmovies #surfingpuertoescondido #puertoescondidomexico #puertoescondidooaxaca #puertoundergroundarchives #shotinoglevision

In the early 90s (and probably well before) the Californian Casey Higdon had the Puerto Escondido beach break dialed in! Casey was always an enigma to me. I didn’t see him around town much and rarely saw him paddling out to his favorite part of the beach just south of the main break called Far Bar, but there he would appear, most of the time by himself, in waves that would scare the crap out of the average surfer. While filming on the larger days, I would look over and see this incredibly stylish gringo goofyfooter picking off some of the heaviest Far Bar lefts he could find. I never got to know him very well, but I enjoyed watching and filming him until one day he just disappeared, and I never saw or heard of him again. Hopefully he is well and has a chance to see some of these incredible memories 🫡 #puertounderground #puertoundergroundmovies #puertoundergroundsurfmovies #surfingpuertoescondido #puertoescondidomexico #puertoescondidooaxaca #puertoundergroundarchives #shotinoglevision

I met some very funny and hard-charging characters from Australia throughout the 90s in Puerto Escondido and Gavin Coleman was definitely one of them. Gavin was not only a hard-charging surfer, but he’s also an incredible kneeboarder who won the kneeboard world championship title in 2007! While visiting Puerto, in his quest to stay fit for the larger swells, he would go out on smaller days in blue jeans and pull into closeouts just for the exercise! Imagine swimming against the rip currents in the turbulent Puerto Escondido beach break wearing heavy blue jeans🤔 #puertounderground #puertoundergroundmovies #puertoundergroundsurfmovies #surfingpuertoescondido #puertoescondidomexico #puertoescondidooaxaca #puertoundergroundarchives #shotinoglevision

This is a short excerpt from my Puerto Underground 3 ‘Con Huevos’ video. Miguel Ramirez was one of the nicest, most humble, hard-working guys I had met in Puerto Escondido in the early 90s He had the best business ever, he fixed broken surfboards at the Zicatela Beach. On a good swell, you would easily see 10 or 15 broken boards per day. Miguel was so good, you could give him your broken board after your morning session and usually he would have it back, repaired perfectly, the same day or the next day at the latest. Miguel was also super fun to work with and he loved it when I came up with my silly video skits. I figure I shot that video interview around the early 2000s and at that point, he estimated he’d fixed over 30,000 broken boards. I can’t imagine what the number would be today 🤔 I still have DVDs of all four of my Puerto Underground movies if anybody is interested 🤙 #puertounderground #puertoundergroundmovies #surfingpuertoescondido #puertoundergroundsurfmovies #puertoescondidomexico #puertoescondidooaxaca #puertoundergroundarchives #shotinoglevision

By 1993 I had lived in Puerto Escondido for a couple of years and while exploring the coastline, I figured out that there was a lot of quality waves around the Puerto Escondido area that very few people knew about. As a side venture I would take visiting surfers to these incredible waves, not only to surf them myself, but to film them surf and make a little money on the side 🤑 Comedy is hard to pull off in a surf movie but I thought I would give it a go. This is one of the early skits that I dreamed up for my first surf movie Puerto Underground #1. The white ford van in the skit was the car I drove down there originally in 1990. That van saw a lot of hard miles and explored a lot of what what was at the time, a very virgin coastline. #puertounderground #puertoundergroundmovies #surfingpuertoescondido #puertoescondidomexico #puertoescondidooaxaca #puertoescondido #puertoundergroundarchives #shotinoglevision

If you came down to Puerto Escondido to surf in the early 2000s and met me, you will probably remember my cameraman George Blair. George was the third (and final) full-time cameraman I hired while living there from the early 90s through the first decade of the 00s Of all 3, George was the most reliable and dedicated cameraman I’ve had the pleasure of working with. I used to laugh and call him George of Jungle because we were always in hot, sweaty jungles. George was also a very good friend and we had some great adventures exploring and documenting a (still at the time) unspoiled paradise. Thanks for all your hard work over the years George 🤙 #puertounderground #puertoundergroundmovies #surfingpuertoescondido #puertoescondidomexico #puertoundergroundarchives #shotinoglevision

Anybody that knows me, knows that I love fishing a lot and the sport fishing in and around Puerto Escondido is about as good as it gets! So naturally, when I arrived in the early 90s, the first thing I did was find a good captain and Rodolfo fit that bill perfectly. He was always laughing and playing practical jokes and would roll up these giant joints of Mexican weed and literally light joint after joint all the way out to the fishing grounds. The yellowfin tuna and the sailfish were super plentiful, and Rodolfo always freaked out when I jumped in the ocean with my waterhousing saying I was a ‘loco gringo’. In one shot you can actually see me grab the tail of the sailfish and then it just went ballistic. In this segment from my first Puerto Underground movie, Nathan Knowlton and I went out for a little deep sea fishing on one of the down surf days. I still have lots of DVDs of all 4 of my Puerto Underground surf movies. If anybody’s interested, message me 🤙 #puertounderground #puertoundergroundmovies #fishingpuertoescondido #puertoescondidomexico #puertoescondidooaxaca #puertoescondido #puertoundergroundarchives #shotinoglevision