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UNUSED FACILITY Starring Ford Archbold, Colin Moran and Gavin Beschen

Are surf trips dead? Are there anymore free surfers left on the planet? The powers that be would like you...

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...
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“Where ya been?” A little update on our recent movements

Don’t you just love when people ask you that? Well, we do. And people been asking us – especially our mailman,...
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Some Good news: The Volcom Pipe Pro Still one of the only contests we can watch in its entirety

The Volcom Pipe Pro is a 3-star $75,000 WQS at Pipeline. And the reason it’s so watchable is the variety of...
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A good looking cutting room floor Issue 17 is ready for ink, here’s a peek

Full disclosure: We didn’t plan it like this. But as we’ve learned along the way, that’s so very OK. Hell,...
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4 Cities: Gavin Beschen Episode 3: On The North Shore of Oahu I Presented by Volcom

Gavin Beschen is a giver. Aside from giving us all a few decades of that one of a kind mantis-like...
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A Day With Uncle Gavin Beschen On location in Hawaii for a new episode of “4 Cities”

We met up with Gavin Beschen at Sunset Beach. He was checking the surf in his truck and we had...
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The First Pipe Swell of the year Starring Mason, Michael and Derek Ho, Gavin Beschen and Kalani Chapman

Early season Pipe is usually a tricky affair. Sand and rock aren’t where they should be, it’s pretty irregular and...
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Watch Welcome to Water Episode 2 Proving Grounds Maui Edition

The Volcom crew must’ve been frothing over the waves in Maui. Honolua Bay looked unreal in this latest episode of...
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Watch Welcome to Water Volcom is still ground zero on the North Shore

Volcom has put their stamp on the North Shore. Plain and simple, there’s no denying that. Each winter numerous amounts of...
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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...

Watch Huli Huli With John John Florence, Dusty Payne, Mason Ho, Jamie O’Brien and More

The Hawaii clips keep coming in. And for all intents and purposes because if the waves are there so are...
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Gavin Beschen backside Collected Thoughts 080

Yep that’s a DVS sticker on Gavin’s board. This photo was shot almost 9 years ago, and not much has...
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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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Gavin Beschen: A stylish gentelman We sat down with the style icon for What Youth Issue 3

We’ve always been fans of Gavin Beschen. His demeanor, personality, and career path: all really inspiring — and he did...

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