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Race Against the Tide S03E01
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00:00 [MUSIC]
00:04 This is the Bay of Fundy in New Brunswick,
00:06 home to the highest tides in the world,
00:08 and where an all new rougher, tougher beach battle is kicking on.
00:13 Oh.
00:13 Tournament style.
00:14 You are going down.
00:16 Women kick some asses.
00:17 Twelve top sand sculpting teams will be divided into two groups of six.
00:21 The other teams should be afraid of us.
00:23 I think they'll start wetting their pants.
00:25 I look very sweet,
00:26 but there's a layer underneath.
00:27 To dig, pound, carve, and sculpt their way through four qualifying heats.
00:32 Oh, oh, oh, it's coming.
00:33 No.
00:34 We see a whole lot of losers.
00:36 Only the top two teams from each group will make it to the semifinals.
00:40 Who knows who we're going to have to knock down next.
00:42 You got a machete in your hand?
00:43 Yeah.
00:44 These mind-blowing sculptures can take days to create,
00:47 but here they have just six hours.
00:49 Go, go, go, go.
00:51 The unstoppable tide is their living, breathing stopwatch.
00:54 It's coming fast.
00:55 And when it comes crashing in, tide's in, time's up.
00:59 It'll rip everything back out to sea.
01:01 Five-time world champion Karen Frehlich and master sculptor Rusty Cross
01:06 will decide which teams live to carve another day.
01:09 Fuck.
01:10 You cannot play it safe.
01:11 I want risk.
01:13 And which teams leave the beach?
01:15 Go high or go home.
01:17 In the end, only one team will take home the grand prize of $10,000.
01:22 I love the taste of winning.
01:23 Woo!
01:24 We are the best, Carlos.
01:26 I'm maestro Fresh West.
01:28 Watch as we race against the tide.
01:30 We're both artists, and we've been working together for over 25 years.
01:40 And we're married.
01:41 We fell in love with sand because of its closeness to nature.
01:45 In our work, we do a lot of flora and fauna.
01:48 Brian and I are really competitive.
01:50 We're going to risk everything to win.
01:53 We've been working together for six years in ice and snow.
01:57 We feel really confident about sand sculpting, too.
02:00 Ice, you're working with gravity.
02:02 Sand, you're working against gravity.
02:05 Young ladies, believe in yourself.
02:07 Make it happen.
02:08 Rise up, sister.
02:09 Rise up.
02:11 Let's kill it.
02:12 We are very excited to be back.
02:14 Crazy artist specialty.
02:16 Last time, we went home one challenge before the finals.
02:19 Carlos and Francisco.
02:21 We are ready to work and rock it.
02:24 I'm carving sand since 15 years ago.
02:27 Showing my culture in my sculpting needs to be present.
02:31 This time, we need to show the judges that we are serious.
02:35 We are here for revenge.
02:36 Sculptors!
02:40 You've made it all the way to New Brunswick.
02:46 And this time, we're going to make it tougher than ever.
02:49 The six of you were battled out through four qualifying heats.
02:54 Less teams means your chances of going home are much higher.
02:58 Only the top two teams will make it to the semifinal,
03:02 where you're going to meet the top two
03:03 teams from the other group.
03:05 You heard it.
03:06 There's another group of sand sculptors coming for the title.
03:10 Yeah.
03:11 So let's get to it, then.
03:12 To create a masterpiece in sand, you
03:14 must combine technical skill with artistic creativity.
03:19 So for your first challenge, show us your signature style.
03:23 What sets you apart from the rest?
03:26 Make it count, because at the end of the challenge,
03:29 one team will be leaving the beach.
03:32 So let the race begin.
03:34 [CHEERING]
03:37 All right, it's on.
03:38 Warming up with this pack up?
03:42 With the tournament being only six teams,
03:44 the competition is stiff.
03:45 We're going to have to bring our total A game.
03:47 Small layer of water.
03:49 Then pump, pump, pump, pump, pump.
03:52 Today we are making the way we met together,
03:54 and we just merged.
03:55 I really like to do animals, and I like to do humans.
03:59 So we are going to do an animal and a woman
04:01 connecting between a wall.
04:03 People might underestimate our talent,
04:05 because we work as ice carvers.
04:08 But we're confident.
04:09 Attention, everybody!
04:12 You are going down!
04:13 I think you're wrong!
04:16 Hey, we're digging a hole for you over here, buddy.
04:19 Carlos and Francisco are back here again,
04:22 and I'm back here again.
04:23 It's an honor, actually.
04:25 Peter's my mentor.
04:26 He's taught me everything I know.
04:27 And yeah, you like hearing that, don't you?
04:30 Peter and I went home a little too early.
04:32 Yep.
04:34 Bye bye, mom.
04:35 This time around, I've got the new team.
04:37 Thomas is my secret weapon.
04:39 Yeah.
04:39 Kind of scared of how competitive I am.
04:41 Today's challenge is showing them our style, what we got.
04:44 One side is our two faces combined,
04:46 and then the other side is a wolf.
04:48 It's our collaborative spirit with our--
04:50 Competitive nature.
04:52 Yeah.
04:53 To win this competition, the teams
04:55 must meet today's judging criteria--
04:57 clarity of concept, originality, and wow factor.
05:02 Karen and Rusty, we're back on the beach.
05:04 Yes, we are.
05:06 We started with 12 teams, divided them
05:08 into two groups of six.
05:09 The top two teams from the first group
05:11 and the top two teams from the second group
05:13 will battle it out in the semifinal.
05:15 In group one, we have some amazing teams,
05:18 Mary Lynn and Isabel, very accomplished ice carvers.
05:22 But they have got the chops to take on this competition.
05:25 Who let Francisco back on the beach?
05:28 They're back for redemption.
05:30 Also, Alex is back.
05:32 And now he's out on his own with his teammate Thomas.
05:34 You think that gives him an advantage?
05:36 Not in this competition.
05:37 The tide changes, the sand changes, the weather changes.
05:40 I mean, look at the wind today.
05:42 We have another all-woman team.
05:44 Ludo is a surrealist sculptor.
05:46 And Aness is great at figurative sculpture.
05:49 They are by far one of the top teams on this beach.
05:52 We are like artists, not artists, but artists.
05:55 We can put some feelings and emotions in a work.
05:58 I'm sculpting 15 years.
06:00 For me, it's super important to make a nice composition
06:04 and make sweet stuff.
06:05 People see my work, they say, hey, that's Ludo.
06:08 I do it full time.
06:09 I love it.
06:11 OK, send.
06:12 We're making a big heart with feelings.
06:15 A real heart with flowers.
06:17 Like big shape, high risk.
06:20 Like boom, boom, boom, boom.
06:22 This is a gnome cornhole.
06:24 Cornhole is a toss game played with beanbags.
06:26 But we thought it'd be fun to do it with gnomes.
06:29 The gnome's going to be sliding and jumping,
06:30 and this is going to be the actual cornhole
06:33 that he's going to be landing on.
06:34 Well, in originality, we should do really well.
06:36 We always try to approach from a whimsical point.
06:40 Something fun that has a wow factor.
06:42 I've always worked with my hands.
06:43 I love creating stuff.
06:45 How far can we push it?
06:46 That's what wins the contest.
06:48 You know, we can compete with the best of them.
06:51 If you don't pack it right, when you take the forms off,
06:53 it collapses.
06:54 After I got married, my wife explained to me
06:55 that you don't always want to be really quick.
06:59 Sometimes you want to take your time and do it right.
07:03 On the top, we're adding a little bit of extra sand
07:06 because we want to have some leaves pop out over the top.
07:10 We have a wild apple tree, and then we
07:12 have a rabbit and a fox being chased around.
07:16 Our relationship with nature will
07:18 help us detail the design.
07:20 Give it a bit more height for that wow factor.
07:25 It's not important in this challenge the high level.
07:28 Because it's going to be like a huge animal going like this,
07:31 like with a lot of movement.
07:33 We are doing big, but around the plot.
07:36 We are here for win every challenge.
07:38 This is the head, and this is going to be
07:40 the torso going like this.
07:42 We are doing an alebrije.
07:45 It's an animal made of several animals.
07:48 It's our identity, funny, crazy, and Mexican culture.
07:53 Carlos and Francisco, back again.
07:56 Holy.
07:57 Well, you're back with matching shirts, and you grew a beard.
07:59 This is the new Francisco.
08:01 What did you learn from last time?
08:03 Last time, we didn't win any challenge.
08:06 But this time, we came for all of them.
08:09 This is the redemption.
08:11 I love it.
08:11 Anything can happen in this beach.
08:13 We don't know.
08:14 We have to be prepared for everything.
08:15 We are going to give more than the last time.
08:18 OK.
08:19 I promise you, maestro.
08:21 I promise you.
08:23 Two hours in, and the competition
08:25 is really picking up.
08:27 So is the wind.
08:28 Oh, there goes my hat.
08:29 Oh, oh, sorry.
08:32 The wind makes the sand really dry,
08:34 and then it can crumble.
08:37 That wind, yeah, the Bay of No Fundy.
08:40 It's kind of tricky because it gets dry
08:42 and blown away so quick.
08:44 You see this?
08:45 It's just drying right out.
08:47 Oh.
08:48 Here at New River Beach, six sand sculpting teams
08:55 are facing off in their first qualifying
08:57 round of this epic tournament.
08:59 We are ready to kick some asses.
09:02 Oh, right in the eyes.
09:03 The wind makes the sand really dry.
09:05 In the end, only one team will take
09:08 home the grand prize of $10,000.
09:12 Karen, we are back on the beach for our race
09:14 against the tide tournament with our teams
09:16 from our first group.
09:18 There is some energy out there, even a little bit
09:20 of trash talking.
09:21 As if this competition wasn't hard enough,
09:23 now they have to deal with wind.
09:25 Their sculptures are drying out.
09:26 It's hard to concentrate.
09:28 No one likes to get pelted in the face with sand all day.
09:31 We've asked the teams to show us their signature style.
09:34 I want to see some really cool original ideas
09:36 with some really well thought out designs.
09:38 As usual, I'll be looking for technical precision.
09:41 You have to be that good.
09:43 Row one, big shape.
09:45 This is hand stacking, so it's a little bit higher
09:48 than three forms.
09:50 It's even more risk that it will fall down.
09:53 We're making some cutouts because we want to win,
09:56 and this is how you take some risks.
09:59 Yes, that's what we are called, the risky wild child.
10:02 Alex, good to see you again.
10:07 Likewise.
10:08 You're out on your own after eight years of apprenticeship.
10:11 Feels great.
10:12 Thomas is a fantastic carver.
10:14 What are you making today?
10:15 We're making a wolf.
10:17 He's going to have one of these in his mouth
10:19 to indicate our dominance on the beach.
10:22 I'm loving that confidence.
10:23 Looking forward to pushing it further.
10:25 You bring it or you go home.
10:27 Oh, yeah.
10:29 I'm so happy that Alex is here because we can
10:31 get till the end together.
10:33 Then he will leave.
10:34 [LAUGHS]
10:36 [MUSIC PLAYING]
10:39 Oh, sculptors!
10:41 What?
10:42 The tide has reached its farthest point.
10:44 All right, we got to hurry it up.
10:46 Ay, ay, ay.
10:46 This is your yellow flag warning.
10:49 Not at this time, maestro!
10:51 We can make it happen.
10:52 Let's go.
10:53 We're starting to reveal some apples and some leaves,
10:56 and we have a cut through.
10:58 So we're hoping that that makes us a good wow factor.
11:00 We challenged ourselves with a really tall and large sculpture.
11:04 Pretty ambitious to try to carve that much.
11:07 Everyone's got their second one off.
11:08 OK, let's go.
11:10 I'm working now on the veins of the heart.
11:13 It's important to feel it.
11:15 I want people looking on my piece and think about our concept.
11:20 A lot of concentration.
11:22 The best way to work is to attack with our strengths.
11:26 Sometimes I improvise, but I don't know it
11:29 until I'm actually doing it.
11:30 Then I get that feeling inside.
11:32 It's coming through.
11:33 It's coming through.
11:35 It's going to be cut throughs all over.
11:37 We are going to have at least 20.
11:39 Carving sand is the connection with nature,
11:42 working the different techniques.
11:45 You need to have the perfect amount of water and sand.
11:47 Not too much wet, not too much dry.
11:49 It will create an effect of three dimensions.
11:52 I call it spread butter on my toast.
11:55 This is one of my specialty.
11:57 Ah.
11:58 Mwah.
11:59 What should the other teams know about Mike and Shannon?
12:04 Well, whenever we talk to them, we
12:06 see a lot of fear in their eyes.
12:07 [LAUGHTER]
12:08 Ooh.
12:09 See?
12:09 She's shaking.
12:10 She's like--
12:11 They're shaking.
12:13 What's this creation?
12:14 I don't know if you've ever played cornhole.
12:15 Nah.
12:16 Really?
12:17 Usually you do it with beanbags.
12:18 And this is gnome cornhole.
12:20 Try to make it kind of fun.
12:21 Whimsical.
12:22 OK, OK.
12:23 How are you feeling about time?
12:25 Maybe run a little bit behind.
12:26 The thing is, is when you carve, you always start at the top.
12:29 You carve to the bottom.
12:30 The finer points of your creation really take time.
12:34 Either way, the tide is coming.
12:35 There is so much to do.
12:39 Clean surface is the most difficult part for us.
12:42 In order to achieve that, we have to hurry up
12:45 more than anything.
12:46 We are just about to take off our bottom form.
12:49 And this is, like, scary.
12:51 We could have a collapse.
12:53 Doesn't matter.
12:54 We have to get the next one off.
12:55 We need to pull the base.
12:57 The tide's coming in.
12:58 There's no second chance.
13:01 All right, here, let's bring this one back.
13:03 Uh-oh.
13:04 Yeah, we're fucked.
13:05 With under an hour left in the competition,
13:12 one team faces a big sand setback.
13:15 That part right there just shifted.
13:17 Time for plan B.
13:18 Put sand in that bucket.
13:20 Kind of goose a little bit, and then you patch this up.
13:23 The big concern is getting everything done in the time
13:25 it needs to be done.
13:26 Got a long way to go and a short time to get there.
13:28 Mary Lynn and Isabel, I see some amazing texture
13:35 on this chimpanzee.
13:36 Smooth texture on him.
13:37 Bam!
13:38 Get that contrast.
13:40 Exactly.
13:40 So you guys are known for ice and snow.
13:43 Yep.
13:44 But I'm pretty impressed with what you can do with sand, too.
13:47 You've made three cut-throughs on here,
13:49 which is always a risk.
13:50 You know, the ice is with shensa,
13:52 and we have to be really gentle with the sand.
13:54 So it's different, but we can sculpt anything.
13:57 All that confidence.
13:58 Yeah.
13:59 It is indeed.
14:00 I'm nervous.
14:03 We did the three forms separate in order to do a big animal.
14:07 This is the tail.
14:08 We need to be better to win this competition.
14:10 The danger now is the tide, because the tide is on my back.
14:15 [MUSIC PLAYING]
14:17 We don't have that much time left.
14:19 What do you see out there?
14:20 There are a few teams I'm a little worried about.
14:23 Mike and Shannon pulled their bottom form,
14:25 and part of the sand fell out.
14:26 They've been spending a lot of time trying to repair that,
14:28 which isn't a good thing.
14:30 Carlos and Francisco went huge.
14:32 Classic.
14:33 But they still have a whole pound up to carve.
14:36 I just hope they have enough time
14:37 to finish as clean as possible.
14:39 Don and Brian have the biggest and tallest
14:42 sculpture on the beach, but they still
14:44 have the whole bottom to do.
14:45 If they don't finish that, it'll be a real heartbreaker.
14:48 Hey, that tide's a heartbreaker.
14:51 Right here?
14:52 This is the rabbit. OK, I'm not touching.
14:53 No, it's not the rabbit.
14:54 We still have to carve a rabbit and a fox being chased
14:58 around this wild apple tree.
15:00 You have to go to another spot, because I got to do this.
15:03 For right now, we're kind of chasing our own tails.
15:05 And I need a brush.
15:05 [MUSIC PLAYING]
15:07 Do you think enough flowers?
15:09 There may be some small ones there.
15:11 Detailing.
15:12 And the only important thing now--
15:14 Yeah, nice details.
15:15 Nice details.
15:16 [MUSIC PLAYING]
15:18 Attention, sculptors!
15:21 This is your red flag warning.
15:23 Oh my god.
15:24 Open fire.
15:25 Yeah.
15:26 You have 10 minutes before the tide hits the markers.
15:28 We got our whole red flag warning!
15:30 Woo!
15:32 I got to work on your face some more.
15:33 I've been working on it for years.
15:35 No time. Let's go, let's go, let's go.
15:37 I just got to clean this one little part up.
15:38 Oh my god.
15:39 OK, Brian, fast, fast, fast.
15:41 This is the end.
15:44 Tides in, time's up.
15:46 Woo!
15:46 Good job, Don.
15:48 The wow factor, I think we hit that really well.
15:51 We feel really confident about the sculpture.
15:54 I feel relieved.
15:56 Everybody here is so good.
15:59 And it really just depends on kind of what
16:01 the judges are looking at.
16:02 Going home is not a possibility in my mind.
16:05 Because we are the best, Carlos!
16:08 Now it's up to the judges.
16:10 They'll be looking for clarity of concept,
16:13 originality, and wow factor.
16:16 Karen and Rusty, this was a very windy day.
16:18 But these sculptures are blowing me away.
16:21 First up, Maddie, Lynn, and Isabel.
16:23 I love this piece.
16:25 Super original.
16:26 They have the animal on one side, the human on the other.
16:29 They're both thinking, contemplating, and touching
16:31 through the whole.
16:32 Like, are we connected through art?
16:34 I love the expressions on the faces of both
16:37 the chimp and the human.
16:39 A lot of texture, a lot of technique.
16:41 They took a really big technical risk
16:43 doing three cutouts.
16:45 A little bit of a proportion issue with that arm.
16:48 I like a girl with big hands.
16:51 Brian and Dawn.
16:53 Brian and Dawn did the tallest, biggest sculpture on the beach.
16:57 That shows a lot of skill and technical ability.
16:59 It's almost like a still life.
17:01 We've got the fruit on top, a little scene out of the garden,
17:03 the fox chasing the rabbit.
17:05 I can see they're really into nature.
17:06 They have a cut through that's quite risky on the top.
17:09 Very original piece.
17:11 But they still have that whole bottom form to carve
17:13 with not very much time left.
17:14 You can kind of tell.
17:16 Mike and Shannon and their gnome cornhole game.
17:20 Gnome hole.
17:22 Yeah, talk about putting your personality into a piece.
17:25 Very whimsical, very funny.
17:27 And original.
17:28 For "Wild Factor," though, this is probably the smallest
17:31 sculpture on the beach.
17:32 They spent a lot of time on top getting that gnome just
17:36 right up there that by the time they pulled their base form,
17:38 they had a dish out and they had to fix it.
17:40 And that really, really, I think,
17:42 affected the finish and the quality of their piece.
17:45 Carlos and Francisco.
17:47 It's not very tall, but it's really big.
17:50 This thing takes up their entire plot.
17:52 This is definitely Carlos and Francisco's signature style.
17:56 Full of character, full of texture,
17:58 quite risky on the cut throughs all the way down there.
18:01 The more delicate the little features are,
18:02 the quicker they dry up and blow away.
18:04 I would have liked to have seen a little crisper lines
18:07 and maybe some deeper shadows.
18:09 These guys always come with big energy and big sculptures.
18:12 I just hope they learn to finish them strong.
18:15 Alex and Thomas and the big bad wolf ain't playing.
18:18 Wow, Alex and Thomas are sending us a crystal clear message
18:22 on who they are as a team.
18:25 The wolf with the margin trowel in his mouth,
18:27 it's telling everybody that they are ferocious
18:29 and they're here to win.
18:30 There's so much texture and shape going on,
18:32 and there's two more faces on the back.
18:34 They did a really big piece, very ambitious,
18:37 but because of that, maybe they didn't quite get
18:39 the finish they wanted on there.
18:41 But Alex is back with his own teammate, Thomas,
18:44 and they created an awesome sculpture today.
18:46 And finally, Ludo and Ines.
18:50 This one gets me right in the heart.
18:52 This thing is beautiful.
18:54 You can feel the heart.
18:55 Even though this is an anatomical heart,
18:57 they put a very original spin on it by adding the flowers.
19:01 They have a nice little pop to it.
19:02 I'd like to see a little bit more depth inside there,
19:04 maybe one of the chambers of the heart.
19:06 The feeling that the heart is beating.
19:08 All I know is that, Tide, is giving me a heart attack.
19:11 Me too.
19:12 (laughing)
19:14 You made it through your first challenge.
19:18 How's everybody feeling?
19:19 (cheering)
19:21 Today, you're asked to show off your signature style.
19:25 All of you displayed artistic flair and technique.
19:30 But one team should register their trademark.
19:33 Today's sand champs are...
19:36 Mary Lynn and Isabel.
19:46 (cheering)
19:48 Let's beast the next challenge, girl.
19:57 Yeah.
19:58 Mary Lynn and Isabel are very accomplished
20:01 ice and snow carvers.
20:03 And it's clear, they're also amazing with sand.
20:06 The piece is dynamic, a lot of good texture and technique.
20:09 There was two hands touching inside one of the cut-throughs,
20:12 which was both cool and risky at the same time.
20:15 We were looking for originality, and they delivered.
20:18 Congratulations, you're one step closer to the final.
20:22 But for one of you,
20:24 the tide has turned.
20:27 (dramatic music)
20:30 Mike and Shannon.
20:35 Please pack your tools and leave the beach.
20:41 I'm a little bummed.
20:42 Yeah, time really did get away from us.
20:44 The tide came in a little too fast.
20:47 But a bad day at the beach is still better
20:48 than a good day at work.
20:50 (dramatic music)
20:53 (water splashing)
20:56 Congratulations, sculptors.
21:00 You've lived to carve another day.
21:02 Yes.
21:03 A race against the tide.
21:04 (cheering)
21:07 We'll meet our second group of sand sculptors
21:13 in the tournament as they face their first qualifying heat.
21:16 The gloves are coming off.
21:17 One of the other teams is gonna have a tragic accident.
21:20 We're not worried.
21:21 is going to be cut through.