A while back Brendon Gibbens came through What Youth and sat on our couch. He was tagging along with Dion Agius and Craig Anderson. He was very polite and friendly. Everyone was skating around the warehouse talking shit and hanging out. We had no idea Brendon even surfed.
Cut to a few months later in France: Passing through on his way to Iceland Brendon came and hung out with us for a few days and we got a chance to sit down and officially meet the real man. Turns out he can surf. Really damn well. He has a charming South African accent, unassuming demeanor and one of the wildest alley-oop stomps we’ve seen. And underground appeal that we love. Remember that spelling.
Meet Brendon Gibbens A polite young man with a fucked up alley oop
Office Space: Ben Hatchell When the world’s best rip our office mini presented by Monster
Ben Hatchell looks nice enough. He’s polite, well-mannered and friendly. And then he starts skating and all hell breaks loose. We’re now aware of what may or not be capable of on our office mini and hallway run, because Ben did both. And pulled it all. Ben showed up for a roll around, and in…
Watch “Shitkicker” A new film starring Beau Foster, Ellis Ericson, Creed McTaggart, Droid and more
Yesterday was a day filled with glory and triumph and testosterone. Today is all about having fun and smashing it with your friends. And Beau Foster’s been tripping the planet with his friends and made this jazzy film for you and we’re getting to show it to you first. It’s called Shitkicker and it’s really…
Office Space: Sebo Walker An Oregonian did this on our ramp
Sebo Walker is originally from Oregon. And he’s a bit of a jock. Did all the sports growing up including soccer, scootering, baseball — and lucky for us, skateboarding was the one that stuck. He moved to California to pursue skateboarding and we were lucky enough to have him come by and skate our new mini. In this…
Office Space: Sal Barbier Skate royalty on our mini ramp
Sal Barbier came by to skate other day. You’ll remember Sal from being the dude with the best selling skate shoe ever. Or maybe for the day he took us and his jump ramp to the streets of Santa Monica. He’s truly an all-around skateboarding legend and someone we like having around. Not to mention the way…
Watch Taj Burrow in Indo A What Youth Original presented by VonZipper
Taj Burrow recently had his first child, a baby girl named Arabella Rose. She’s perfect just like her mommy and daddy. But this piece features the new dad doing what he’s done better than anyone we’ve ever had the pleasure of watching for over two decades: having fun surfing. No one has shown this and…
Flamingo Inn A new film starring Dillon Perillo and Brendon Gibbens presented by Rip Curl
Right points make a quirky canvas for these two. Sprinkle in some Central American flavor and consider yourself checked into the Flamingo Inn.
Postcard Oregon A film by Quiksilver and What Youth starring Mikey Wright, Bryan Fox and Javier Mendizabal
Maybe it was an experiment, or maybe it just happened. But whatever the case may be: we ended up in Oregon, on a big hill, blitzing down it — and at another point we were were surfing in front of a forest, and then we were in a city. We were a lot of things,…
Office Space: Curren Caples We got a new ramp and Curren rolled on it Presented by Monster
We got a new ramp: The Hager Brothers Cody and Jared came in one day, saw our tiny mini ramp, tore it out and upgraded our office in a big way. A few days later, it’s live. And to get a handle on what’s possible on it, we invited Curren Caples over for a quick…
Far Gone Out Panama and the pleasurable experience that it is with Jack Freestone, Creed McTaggart and Ian Gentil
Panama and the pleasurable experience that it is with Jack Freestone, Creed McTaggart and Ian Gentil
Beauty Pockets II Epokhe Eyewear’s new Short
Epokhe team hits the South Coast in this new Short Film by Kai Neville
Home Ave: Austin Calvello A roll in the park
Physical education at Diamond park with Austin Calvello.
2014 Memoirs A year in review
That was a blast. Let’s do it again this year.