NXT 
“I think Dane was in Santa Cruz for the Cold Water Classic this year. The weather was warm and the waves were nonstop that year. I remember being so excited because Dane Reynolds was coming to my home town. I got to show him a few spots around town and a few times my friends would call me up and ask if I just drove by with Dane Reynolds in my car. Just full grom behavior. So good.” —Nate Lawrence
Dane Reynolds in Santa Cruz Collected Thoughts 082
Related
Watch: “Not Today” Dane ponders what’s next.
Watch: “Happy Talk” A film by Eithan Osborne and Andrew Schoener
Watch: “Pentacoastal” A film by Wade Goodall
Watch: Chapter 11 TV Surfing’s contradiction: Dane Reynolds
Left or right? Is COVID-19 tearing apart surfing?
Photo Credit: Nate Lawrence Matt Meola’s timeless bash
Opinion Who killed surfing?
Newsstand: “City Surf” A book by Nate Lawrence and Leo Maxam
FORMER HITS BALI
A Journey Through the Emerald Isle Ian Crane and Soli Bailey for Issue 20
4 Cities: Cole Sandman Episode 6: Venturing Around Santa Cruz Presented by Volcom
Governed By Lines A new film starring Ian Crane, and Soli Bailey in Ireland presented by O’Neill
Just Add Wind A Keramas Freesurf Gallery
Austyn Gillette’s FORMER Part Is Top Shelf PLUS A DARKLY CANDID CHAT W/ DANE ABOUT LOVE, LOSS, + DYLAN
WASTED TALENT PRESENTS THROUGH THE PINES A SHORT FILM BY GUILLEM CRUELLS
Volcom’s Road Rager at What Youth With Ryan Burch, Ozzie Wright, live performance by Manipulator and so many of you eating tacos and drinking beer
Volcom Road Rager at our place! Ryan Burch, Ozzie Wright and the whole band of Volcom pranksters are coming over Friday, March 9th from 3-7pm
Watch Creed McTaggart’s “Bong Edit” Plus, everything else he just dumped out of his iMovie archives
Watch “Downhill From Here” Creed, Beau, Ellis and friends…no irony.
A quick ode to Uncle Gav Please buy this legend a cold beer. He is a surfing treasure.
“Lucky Enough to be in the right place at the right time.” Collected Thoughts 099
If Nate Lawrence’s lens could talk…..Indonesia.
Be Like Mason Ho Collected Thoughts 098
“Why can’t everyone just be a little bit more like Mason Ho?” —Nate Lawrence
Raph Bruhwiler, Canada 2011 Collected Thoughts 097
“Raph is amazing. Canada is amazing. This wave is amazing. And drinking Iceburgs at Shelter is amazing” —Nate Lawrence
Mikey Wright, Pipeline 2014 Collected Thoughts 096
“In 2014 I only knew Mikey Wright as Owen’s little brother. Even though he was doing stuff like you see in this photo pretty consistently. Now Mikey is his own brand. He’s not Owen’s little brother anymore. The surfing he is doing is unique. It’s fresh. And pretty soon we could be referring to Owen…
Jordy Smith, Indonesia, 2013 Collected Thoughts 095
“Jordy Smith, Indonesia 2013. Everything about this photo makes me want to pack up a bag and get back to this wave. I just hope there’s still no one out.” —Nate Lawrence
Kai Neville, Indonesia Collected Thoughts 094
“Kai Neville, Indonesia. The winds are light. The swell is picking up. The tank is full. It’s looking like a good time to be in Indonesia.” —Nate Lawrence
Kelia Moniz, Laura Enever and Monyca Eleogram Collected Thoughts 093
“Kelia Moniz, Laura Enever and Monyca Eleogram. Sunset Elementary. I shot this photo on the basketball courts on the North Shore of Hawaii back in 2012. Each has a different style on land and in the water. But all of the them seem to have fun no matter what they are doing.” —Nate Lawrence
Craig Anderson: “Cameo Mod” in Uluwatu April 2010 Collected Thoughts 092
“April, 2010. Craig had just debuted to the world for the first time in Modern Collective. He blew minds with his backside rotations in shark waters as the “Cameo Mod.” But we still had no idea who Craig was. Chas Smith and I hung with Craig for 2 weeks in Oz a few months after the…
Earth to Jordy…We want more of this. Collected Thoughts 091
Jordy, where’d you go? We wanna see more of this this year. Find good waves. Book those last minute flights. Get back at it. With the boys. Love, What Youth
Santa Cruz, localism, kooks and me. Collected Thoughts 090
I recently made a mistake. I took a photo at a spot in Santa Cruz and posted it on our WY Instagram account. I didn’t name the spot, but I did say it was a wave that rarely breaks in Santa Cruz. And the photo tells exactly where the wave is. Then came the comments……
Taj Burrow always rules Collected Thoughts 089
Taj just released a rad little video online. It has waves in it that remind me of why I fell in love with Taj’s surfing. I can remember being a teenager and watching Sabotaj on VHS with my buddies. None of us had ever been to Australia. We had never even left Santa Cruz really….
Flash with Nate Tyler in Santa Cruz Collected Thoughts 088
With all the gimmicks and stunts that have gone down this year it makes me think back to the early 2000’s in Santa Cruz. It was the epicenter of smoke and mirror surfing. We’d either go pull into closeout barrels or use jet skis to whip into 2 foot waves with many of the guys…
