Right, so the WSL starts again next week And hello, yes, we have some questions and concerns. Five exactly.
It is 6:30 am, picture the scene. It is 6:30 am and the crack of dawn in San Diego and...
A quick ode to Uncle Gav Please buy this legend a cold beer. He is a surfing treasure.
Yesterday you heard we went to Samoa and got hit by a cyclone before finding blue tubes and cold beers...
Youth against the machine I’m so proud of you
Editor’s Note: Last Friday night I got emotional. I was watching recaps of what happened in the world that week and...
Outside the Comfort Zone San Francisco to Florida to the North Shore to “The Other Guys.”
It’s been one of those days. Weeks. Years. Hell, six years. I haven’t used my own soap in three weeks....
Media Model Subsidy Line Noise Ordinances and surf video making with Mitch Coleborn, Harry Bryant, Nate Tyler, Colin Moran and more
This morning we received a note on our front door reminding us that this town operates under a noise ordinance and that...
Well, you’re hired We reached out to you and you delivered. Now it’s time to go
Holy shit, it worked! The idea hatched over a pitcher of margaritas the other night is a reality. And it’s...
David Bowie Has A Book Club Maybe 2018 won’t be terrible after all
When history looks back at our bizarre little era, it will agree on one thing: Everything went to shit real...
Quiksilver has acquired rival Billabong In the least shocking headline you’ll read today
I know this headline isn’t as good as: “Iguanas are freezing and falling from trees.” Or “It’s so cold that...
2018: Fitter, Happier…still on antibiotics Here we go again
To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves...
Save What Youth Dot Com And the rest of our little digital realm for that matter
I have loads of nasty habits. I drink six cups of coffee every morning, I let my wetsuit ferment in the...
RIP Bruce Brown The man responsible for surfing’s greatest celluloid achievement is gone, but there’s no chance we’ll ever forget him
I was 12 years old and I remember leaving baseball practice of all things to go see the world premiere...
Forced Creativity In a Musty Place Or, the art of throwing empty pint glasses at a laptop and expecting results
“Writing is the flip side of sex — it’s only good when it’s over.” —Hunter S. Thompson Editor’s note: Here’s something(one)...
Do surfing a favor today Let’s all subscribe to the Encyclopedia of Surfing. What’s that? Well, let me tell you
Matt Warshaw writes really long, really well-researched books and articles about surfing and its history. He’s quite maniacal about it...
Would you rather: Lowers or a Pool? The WSL released its 2018 schedule of events and it’s missing Fiji and Lowers but has a pool
There are 840 miles of coastline in California. And while there will be one stop on the 2018 WSL World Tour...
We’re giving Issue 19 Away Our next Issue is out next Tuesday and here’s how we’re gonna make sure you get it…for free
We lost another classic print publication last week (the regionally great ESM has halted its print edition). We also heard...
Globe’s Cult of Freedom is ready Joe G and his all-star cast of Noa, Creed, Dion, Taj, Nate, BG and EG are back with a new vid
We call our intern “neck tan Nick.” He’s the office shred turkey. And yesterday between watering the plants and taking...
Costumes from Growlers 6 Scott Chenoweth put these ghouls on film. Enjoy the costumes of this past weekend’s festivities
The annual Growler’s 6 festival is one of the best places to spend Halloween weekend. Music, freaks, geeks, costumes, surrealism...
Afternoon Interview: Cole Barash Episode 060: Catching up with Cape Cod based photographer and artist
Cole Barash lives in the What Youth family tree. Originally a snowboard photographer, Cole’s work has since evolved way beyond...
The Growlers Six Our wild weekend at the LA Waterfront with The Growlers, Modest Mouse, Juvenile, The Paranoyds, Bad Brains, Tinariwen and many more
What a weekend for some surrealism brought to you by The Growlers. We spent the last two days running through the...
Love Taj as much as we do? Then you’ll need this new photography book: “Taj. By Respondek”
Taj Burrow and photographer John Respondek have been working together to shoot photos for over 16 years. And to celebrate...
Southern comfort We’re in deep South Carolina with Cam Richards getting some culture shock
We are deep. Motorcycles. Fishing. Bowling. Shooting. Beer drinking. And Boating. Facing and immersing in a unique brand of culture...
Today (and always) we think of Dylan One year on
It’s been one year since we lost Dylan Rieder. But there hasn’t been a single minute in a single day...
How’d this happen? Issue 0019 is somehow a thing coming soon and we really need to surf again
Every single issue of What Youth comes with it’s own insane personality disorder. It walks and talks and fucks with...
Watch Beau Foster slide New Alkali fins designed by Beau and some creative surfing to go with it
Beau Foster has been shaping his own boards and he’s now working on some modern fins to go along with...
Let’s be together When all goes numb, the numb need to get together
I spent the end of last week careening through the perfectly lit and temperate streets of early autumn New York....
We have Cluster Nostalgia Mitch Coleborn came over and fired us up for more of this
It’s no big secret that there’s still a scythe-toting grim reaper hovering over the formerly fun and care-free surfing industry. And...
I’ll never surf the wave pool Even if Kelly Slater invites me, no strings attached, I will very politely decline. Here’s why:
I have the worst taste in music because of surfing. And yeah, I suppose music is entirely subjective, but I...
Country Club Surf Culture Why I want nothing to do with the WSL and Kelly Slater Wave Co.
All day today there’s been a lot of hype, speculation and excitement around the WSL’s specialty event at Kelly Slater’s wave pool....
Fan the flames of Discontent The Dream Tour is changing and it’s starting at a wave pool
I’ve made it more than apparent that I hate the word content. I hate all of it’s definitions. Content. Content....
When you’re in the radar of Irma I’ve learned a lot about hurricane culture today
In Florida, everywhere you look there is a television screen bigger than the previous “biggest TV screen you’ve ever seen”...
Thomas Campbell’s Fever Dreams In a world of gimmicks, it’s nice to know there’s a new Thomas Campbell film in the works
“This isn’t going to be like any of my other films.” That was the first thing Thomas Campbell told me...
The guys still going in the US Open Stories behind Kanoa Igarashi, Tanner Gudauskas and Soli Bailey
The early days of the US Open are interesting. It’s a mixed plate of up and comers, some familiar faces and a...
