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Watch “RVCAloha Surf 2017” Footage of RVCA’s team in Hawaii the past few months

Footage of RVCA’s team in Hawaii the past few months. Featuring Ford Archbold, Shane Borland, Colin Moran, Tyler Netwon, Danny...
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Watch The Road to Spannabis Hop in with Bruce Irons, Asher Pacey and Balaram Stack as they road trip through Portugal, Spain and France en route to Spannabis. Presented by Weed Maps

Jump in the Weed Maps van for a tour of the Old World with Bruce Irons (always a good time),...

Jump on the ROAD TO SPANNABIS Bruce Irons, Balaram Stack and Asher Pacey join pro skaters on a European Road Trip

Editor’s Note: Weed Maps is a relatively new thing. But the way they’re supporting surfing and skating is pretty refreshing....
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Watch “Snapt 3: Reloaded” Full-length movie starring Bruce Irons, Mason Ho, Parker Coffin, Bobby Martinez, Jack Robinson and more

A full-length surf movie is a dying breed. Especially a beautiful throwback style one like this. We all remember the epic parts...
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Bruce Irons and Nathan Fletcher Back Den 126: France in 2001

“bruce irons & nathan fletcher in france. we were there to film for nathan’s movie but got skunked on waves. with the...
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Watch “Mason’s First Cup” Mason Ho’s point of view from the 2016 Rip Curl Padang Cup

One of the best characters we have in surfing. Mason shares it like it truly is. Last year we got...
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The Padang Cup kicks off waiting period And there’s a crazy swell for it

The Padang Cup is one of those contests we can kinda get behind. Reason being: the waves are usually really...
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Snapt 3 is Coming soon Behind the scenes in Indo with Mason Ho, Bruce Irons, Asher Pacey, Ian Crane, Betet and more

We’re in the armpit of Indonesia waiting to board a Wings Air flight back to Bali. Logan Dulien, better known...
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Watch the trailer for Snapt 3 I hope it comes out on VHS!

I’m getting nostalgic. This is how ’90s surf art looked: a blown out Black Sabbath song, crazy surfing, lots of...
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What Youth Issue 17 is out! On Sale Now: Featuring: Craig Anderson, Andrew Allen, Chippa Wilson, Allah-Las, Yago Dora, Kelly Slater, Ty Segall and way more

The other day a friend of mine said to me that if shit hit the fan and he lost his...
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RVCA and the first signs of summer It may be cold now, but this is a positive sign

Unless you were on a trip or in Australia, the last time you surfed trunks were probably the last thing...
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Surfing out front with your friends Final installment of the RVCALOHA Series from the North Shore

There’s nothing in the world quite like running out in front of the house for a surf. In trunks. In...
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A North Shore gathering for Dylan RVCA and Mark Oblow create a Hawaiian night that can only happen on the North Shore

Things happen on the North Shore that don’t and can’t happen anywhere else. I’m now thoroughly convinced of that. The...
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Andy: The Untold Story of Andy Irons Watch the very powerful trailer and see how you can contribute to make the film happen

No shortage of emotion running through the halls this week. And we hope if nothing else we’re all reminded at just...

Padang Cup Through Mason’s Eyes Couldn’t think of a better tour guide

The Padang Cup just ended and the win went to Indonesian surfer Mega Semadhi. But just in case you’re missing all those...
DC Shoes, Stella Artois, Beer

DC Shoes sent us a bunch of beer Like a lot of it. And released this vid.

We had to use a dolly to get it in the door. Nearly 100 green bottles of Stella. With a...
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Watch “RVCAloha Montage” With Bruce Irons, Danny Fuller, Jay Davies, Makua Rothman, and More

The North Shore’s El Niño season is coming to a close and here’s what you’re left with: a packed montage of...
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The What Youth Top 34 This is who’s coming on the very unprofessional What Youth World Tour 2016

So what’s the criteria? Well, it’s a perfectly inexact science that sees the surfers who represent themselves the most authentically...
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We are all Bruce Our talk with a revitalized Bruce Irons from What Youth Issue 13

Bruce Irons has been emulated by every single one of us at some point in our lives. That’s a fact...
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Nathan Fletcher, Sonny Miller and Bruce Irons, San Sebastian, 2001 Back Den 075

“nathan fletcher, sonny miller, and bruce irons. san sebastian, september, 2001. nathan, sonny and i were there for the filming...
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Now that’s how you do it Volcom reminds us how to present competitive surfing the right way

You know if the entire What Youth HQ drops what they’re doing to put the finals a surf contest on the screen...
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Told You So Watch the highlights from Day 2 at the Volcom Pipe Pro, they’re fucking sick (and include this Bruce Irons buzzer beater)

Hate to say it, but, yeah, we called it. The Volcom Pipe Pro continues to produce competition that makes you...
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Watch RVCAloha Featuring Bruce Irons, Danny Fuller, Jay Davies, Makua Rothman, Tyler Newton, Kalani David and more

RVCA doing it right. This is a pretty sick Hawaii part in a sea of Hawaii parts. RVCA has assembled a...
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What Youth Issue 13 On Sale Now

Every once in a while the flurry of dust and mud and granite and soot and ash that make up the...

We Are All Bruce Irons Our case for the feel good hit of the winter

[UPDATE: November 23, 2015]: Kieren Perrow and the WSL have officially awarded Bruce Irons the Wildcard for The Billabong Pipeline...
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Afternoon Interview: Bruce Irons (Pt. 2) Episode 30: On Andy, Gerry, Kelly, age and being excited again

Earnest. Open. Raw. And discussing what’s exciting him now, at 35, going into winter. A nice place for him to...
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Afternoon Interview: Bruce Irons (Pt. 1) Episode 30: On professional surfing’s ups and downs and a life lived on the fulcrum of it all

There aren’t that many surfers who can say he didn’t have an impact on them. His style, flare, attitude, movie...
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WY Documentary: RT and Veeco Part 2: “A psychedelic trip through the textures of nature”

Getting inside the mind of an artist is really hard to do. While brilliant, they usually can’t articulate the trippy...
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WY Documentary: Veeco Productions In part 1 RT takes us behind the curtain of Volcom’s most creative films

They’re somewhere between comedic genius and surreal, feverish nightmares. Raw. Authentic. Fun. But always creative — with a smiley, fucked up...
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Dear Youth: See Ya Hawaii 12 Photos from the North Shore

Nate Lawrence photos from the North Shore.
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Dear Youth 15 Photos from the North Shore: Nate Lawrence

Photographing the North Shore is an interesting skill if you wanna do it right. Nate Lawrence has been on the...
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Rewind Me: 5’5″ x 19 1/4″ With Matt Biolos and Mike Reola

The importance of the "little fish film."

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