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Slow Dance is a wrap and it has a new trailer Collected Thoughts 044

Dane Reynolds and Craig Anderson recently bolted on a surf trip after handing over the hard drive of Craig’s new surf film Slow Dance. They released a new trailer, which you can see here, and a page of wild imagery and vids here which should keep you occupied until the film premieres in Huntington Beach…

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Warren Smith describes what happens when Dion Agius is the boss Collected Thoughts 043

Dion Agius is a boss. Like really, he’s our boss. Like a really sexy, handsome boss. And bosses can really fuck shit up sometimes. He’s been punching his keyboard faster than Goro from Mortal Combat, planning every twist and turn of this trip for nine people, from villas and flights to dinners and motorbikes. But…

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Mitch Coleborn A conversation with a man in transition

Mitch Coleborn walked into our headquarters with a deep red beard and a visible glow about him. He is one of the founding fathers of fuck-you freesurfing in the modern generation and we wanted to hear how he’s transitioning into a maturing surfer, climbing the ranks of the world qualifying tour and why he feels…

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Dear Youth A psychedelic trip in Bali

There is some trippy shit going on in Bali right now. We were going to edit this dispatch from Dion down, combine it with some information about the trip and why it’s going down, pull quotes out, etc, but this note we got from Dion last night does a way better job of relaying what…

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Straight Forward: Jack Freestone Episode 002

This is simple: Jack Freestone is quickly becoming one of our favorite surfers.

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Prologue to What Youth Issue 4 A message pulled from the pages of What Youth Issue 4

Hunter S. Thompson once wrote about jackrabbits that would jump in front of cars at the last second for kicks. Now, this resulted in a lot of dead, thrill-seeking rabbits, but it also resulted in a really powerful adrenaline rush for the ones that made it. Hunter said that he’d observed enough jackrabbit behavior to…

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4:45 At Arto’s An afternoon at Arto Saari’s backyard pool

It’s afternoons like this that make you happy to live and exist in this particular moment.

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Inquire Within The beautiful pictures come to life

Hit play on this daydream now.

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Shane O’Neill at Arto Saari’s house Collected Thoughts 042

Shane O’Neill has been on a surf trip before…sorta. “I went to Malaysia with Julian Wilson once,” he told us...
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Straight Forward: Dillon Perillo Episode 001

Sometimes it's nice to just watch someone with a good style go surfing. That's what this is.
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Notes From the Underground 2 A curated playlist by Damon Way for What Youth Issue 4

Along side being a DC co-founder and building the Incase brand, Damon Way, for the past couple of decades, has...
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Afternoon Interview: Mark Oblow Episode 004

He's shot campaigns for the surf world's biggest brands including Quiksilver and Analog. He's since successfully made the leap into...
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The Devil’s Teeth A What Youth short by Riley Blakeway

Sometimes things don’t go as planned. Sometimes the water turns brown and it rains all day and dead cows wash...
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What Youth Issue 4 Video Watch it move

Our fourth issue is now available in the What Youth store, as well as in fine retailers across the globe....
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End of the River Nate Tyler surfing at home

The End of the River is our first experiment in a new series called The Auteurs. The goal is to...
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What Youth Issue 4 On Sale Now

Our fourth installment of the What Youth book is a reminder. A reminder of why we surf. A reminder that...
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The Final surf for Slow Dance Craig Anderson let us come along on the final day of filming for Slow Dance

It’s pretty hard to find moments like this. The last day of school maybe? First day of a long vacation?...
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Fairly Normal: Dillon Perillo Episode 006

"Waiting in line at an amusement park is like going through the airport TSA line 20 times to go on...
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Dear Youth Every wall a door and don’t say shark

I have a friend who lives in South Africa. He ends all his e-mails with the statement: Every wall a...
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Anything Sing The Soundtrack

A lot of you have been asking about the soundtrack for Anything Sing. Our boy Victor Pakpour did an amazing...
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What Youth Recommends 002 Another few hours of inspiration brought to you by What Youth

This life is short. This life is long. The vast and deep sea that is the Internet greatly increases both...
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Craig Anderson and Occy, filming for Slow Dance, South Coast Collected Thoughts 041

“Those boys have some epic tales…” said Craig of his recent trip to the South Coast of Australia with Occy...
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Anything Sing Zine giveaway WE’VE GOT 50 LIMITED EDITION ZINES THAT INCLUDE A DVD COPY OF ANYTHING SING SIGNED BY LUKE DAVIS, WANT ONE?

We made a pretty gritty little 46 page zine that holds the Anything Sing DVD. Luke Davis and his purple...
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Anything Sing Deleted Scenes / Hawaii

We’re only one day away from the premiere of Anything Sing, which you’ll be able to watch tomorrow, right here,...
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Anything Sing The full-length Film from What Youth X Reef

We chased swells. Ran through terminals. Got dirty. Got loose. Made flights. Missed a few. Had a close call in...
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Anything Sing Deleted Scenes / Australia

Australia went a bit brown on us this year during filming for Anything Sing, but it didn’t stop the waves....

What Youth Recommends 001 Some inspiration found while making What Youth Issue 4

"You can double the length of your iPhone battery easily — just put the fucking thing down."
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This Is Us: Australia Part 4

A What Youth original series.
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What Youth Issue 4 Is currently being finished Collected Thoughts 040

PHOTO: Sam Nolan During our stay in Australia this year, we linked up with photographer Sam Nolan from Byron Bay...
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This Is Us: Australia Part 3

We're all different. We're all the same. It's all fucking good.
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Dear Youth We talked to our good friend Jake Burghart about filming for the new HBO/VICE show

That’s him, in a photo taken by a hidden camera, wearing a What Youth shirt, in Pakistan, about to interview...
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Brendon Gibbens and Nate Tyler about to join a cauldron of ramps and sharks Collected Thoughts 039

PHOTO: Lawrence You don’t expect to feel like there’s a chance Jeremy Wade the River Monster fisherman will pop up...

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