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A full winch part, filmed across the UK.
Winching is wakeboarding with everything stripped back. No cable park, no boat. Just a winch, a rope, a homemade kicker and whatever stretch of water Brandon could find. Canals, rivers, rails and weirs, in towns and cities that were never built for it.
In the UK, hardly anyone does it. You'll see the odd clip online, but a full part is rare. That's exactly why Brandon wanted to make one.
“The idea for this video came about at the start of 2025. You don't really see many winching clips in the UK, especially a full part, so I knew it was something I wanted to do.”
Brandon Trumbull
That idea turned into a few years of spot hunting, early starts and sessions squeezed in around everything else, all of it filmed for one edit.
Out of Context drops Thursday 19th November, 7pm.
Towpaths, city canals, underpasses and a floating rail.
The build:
Every spot starts the same way. Carry the winch in, set the line, build or bring something worth hitting, and work out how the rider gets back out of the water.
Then you get a handful of goes before the light, the weather or somebody's patience runs out.
The van, the winch and everything else that has to get to the spot.
Out of context.
A wakeboarder getting pulled down a canal in the middle of town doesn't make much sense if you don't know what's going on. Which is pretty much what the name says.
Most of the time, people just stop and watch. You'd expect to get moved on from a lot of spots, but it hardly happened.
“We didn't really get into as much bother as expected with getting thrown out. The majority of people are just trying to understand what's going on.”
Brandon Trumbull
Mostly.
“Except when 2 fire trucks, 2 police cars and 1 ambulance showed up in Durham, haha.”
Brandon Trumbull
Through all of it, Brandon rode in the Nord Windbreaker and the Ride Top, in grey and black. Cold mornings, wet rails and walking back up the bank between every hit.
It takes a crew.
A lot of people help out with filming. Not always the people you would expect.
“We was at a spot in Sheffield, just 2 of us, so we set the camera on the other side of the canal and was using a remote to record. That was the plan, but it wasn't working as well as we hoped. There was a couple of druggos on the other side where the camera was, so I ended up asking them if they could help film me. I put a lot of faith into them hoping they wouldn't run off with my camera, but they didn't, so I ended up giving them a 20 to say thanks!”
Brandon Trumbull
The slams.
“I had a couple of slams, getting caught up in a shopping trolley and nearly getting dragged away down a river, but the worst one has to be the incline rail slam, taking it to the face but somehow walking away with all my teeth!”
Brandon Trumbull
Not every session goes to plan.
Nine hours for one hit.
One trick had been on Brandon's list for over a year before he finally gave it a go.
“The first time round it didn't exactly go to plan. We ended up walking away with a clip I wasn't too happy with, as it wasn't what I had visioned, but we couldn't continue due to the kicker breaking. So 2 weeks later, with the kicker repaired, we went back after it. After about 5 hours I was ready to call it quits, but everyone there wouldn't let me. So another 4 hours later, with pretty much both sets of batteries dead, I finally got the hit I was after. Big thanks to everyone involved!”
Brandon Trumbull
Watch the edit, then shop what he wore.
Worn in the edit
