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Take Five: EP 30 Kanoa Igarashi just destroyed all preconceived notions

Quite a few people didn’t like a young, brash boxer by the name of Cassius Clay. Continuing along a pugilistic...

Watch: “Small Boards on Small Waves” A North Shore teaser by Parallel Sea

For most visiting surfers, these small surf days in-between legit North Shore winter swell action are mostly met with some...

Watch: “31 Days” A film from Barron Mamiya

Barron Mamiya has been on many surf media radars for a few years now. Deservedly. His latest endeavor being a...

Watch: Ho/Pringle Productions Mason surfing Pipe

It’s been a few months now since we decamped So Cal for the North Shore. The idea being to embed...

Watch: “This is Livin” Backdoor Shootout Opening Ceremony

In this episode on Koa Rothman’s “This is Livin” we get an inside look at the very underground but super...

Watch “Frisbee Shmizbee” The latest from Cola Bros

So, where do we start? Within our office, the Cola Bros vlog is right up there in watchability. Every episode...

WY Recommends: Celestial Foods A Haleiwa Monument

While Foodland may be the meeting place for many a visiting surfer on Hawaii’s North Shore, Celestial is surely the...

Watch: Ho/Pringle Productions Mase and Parker in the mud

As you may have heard, a few days ago the entire state of Hawaii was dealt some very extreme rainfall....

WY Recommends: Foodland One of the centers of Surfing’s Universe

Foodland. Many surf towns have iconic meeting points. Places like the Torquay Pub, Single Fin, El Camino market, and many...

Watch: “Maps of Home” Featuring John Florence

We’ve been waiting to see more of that epic outer reef session in Hawaii that went down a few months...

Watch: “Zeke Unleashed” EP 08 First swell of the year

If you’ve even been fortunate enough to be in Hawaii when that first fall pulse swings through, then you’ve felt...

Watch: “Beyond the Tour” Featuring Jordy Smith

As has been well documented, Jordy Smith is spending some extra time in Hawaii these days. Owning a home on...

North Shore Diary A portfolio by Pedro Gomes

We were recently connected to photographer Pedro Gomes through the unmistakable and far-reaching power of the Internet. Um yep, he...

What Youth Does: Kaden Russi A Q&A

A chat with Kaden Russi. What Youth has always been about capturing the ins and outs of young and interesting...

Newsstand: Justin Jay’s HI 1K A North Shore Study

A few years back photographer Justin Jay touched down in Honolulu intent on capturing the eclectic North Shore surf scene....

Watch: O’Neill’s “Hawaii Live”- Episode #1 Jordy, Eli, Ian, and the boys get into it

Team O’Neill is on the North Shore this winter to grab a few bombs, slide into a few barrels, make...

Watch “The Backyard” by Volcom Gerry’s Pad

As we know, Volcom has had the beachhead at Pipe on lock for quite some time. With their purchase years...

Conversation With: Kai Borg The Interview

Kai Garcia embodies respect. A respect well earned and honored. But much has changed for Mr. Garcia in recent years...

NEW YEARS DAY PIPELINE HANGOVER Belligerently Ripping

It’s oh so refreshing to see these adolescents keeping the underground lit. In episode five of Raw Cut, Barron, Noah,...

The Moniz Family Family, Respect, & Aloha

Big things often have humble beginnings. You could say the Moniz family truly fits this bill Beginning many years ago...
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Watch Pt. Two Of The YWT In Hawaii Two weeks on the North Shore with the Coffin brothers

A bit of the Coffin brothers’ razzle dazzle filmed during their latest Hawaii jaunt. Even when the North Shore doesn’t...
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Watch Yago Dora In Hawaii Late fall sessions with one of our favorite Brazilians

Yago shook out his hard drive and gave us this neat Allah-Las-soundtracked bit of tropical shred. All taken from a November...
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One Roll 022: From Gerry’s Place Nate Leal shoots the faces who pass through the Volcom House on the North Shore

I was recently walking along the houses on the North Shore, each with it’s own hum of humans drinking and...
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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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Watch RVCAloha: “Alex And Ellis” Alex Knost and Ellis Ericson and some jazz poetry at V Land

Regardless of where you sit on spectrum of surfing hipsterism and nostalgia, you’d be hard pressed to not be at...

One Roll 019: Tom Carey One unedited roll of film shot behind the scenes on the North Shore

The North Shore is a bizarre and beautiful place. On the surface it can look like a surf mecca with...
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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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What Youth on the North Shore “We are not Subway”

We land in Honolulu before midnight and immediately make our way to the Thrifty Car Rental place to grab our car. Everything was...
License to Chill Episode 5: Rock Lobsters.

“License to Chill” Starring Mason Ho Mason dances with rocks again in Episode 5 “Rock Lobsters”

This might be the most dangerous surfing ever done. I mean, seriously right? I don’t know even know if it’s...
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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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Watch Julian Wilson in Hawaii The nicest way to start the year

You’re back. In the saddle, at school, on the road…but before you warp your fragile, Making of a Murderer binge-watching...

Watch John John at Log Cabins Just for fun

John makes a tricky wave look bashful.

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