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Watch Good Luck Kanoa Igarashi He may have an American flag next to his name, but he’s got all of Japan behind him

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Sure, it’s a bit weird. Kanoa Igarashi was born in Los Angeles and grew up in Huntington Beach but has the backing of all of Japan, and they often claim him as their own. Both of his parents are from Japan, and have storied and very extended roots there and from an early age instilled a very strong sense of the Japanese culture in him. And it’d be easy to think that was all for show, until you go to Japan with Kanoa.

Kanoa maintains a deep connection to the place and the traditions. He has a firm and fluent grasp on the language, the customs and his extended family is practically royalty throughout Japan. When he walks out of Haneda Airport in Tokyo, Kanoa is a Japanese man.

We spent a few days with Kanoa in a variety of settings, including the Interstyle trade show where he was mobbed more than Machado. To the streets of Tokyo, where mothers and kids alike would stop him in the crowded streets for photographs. Kanoa is the real deal in Japan. And until you see the way he operates there, it’d be easy to cast him off as an American sellout. This is very much not the case.

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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.

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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…

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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

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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.

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2014 Memoirs A year in review

That was a blast. Let’s do it again this year.

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