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Opinion Who killed surfing?

Well, of course, surfing isn’t dead but actually very much alive and chugging along nicely, thank you, oblivious to most...

WASTED TALENT PRESENTS THROUGH THE PINES A SHORT FILM BY GUILLEM CRUELLS

    Our friends over at Wasted Talent produced this beautiful feature on three things we love: Brendon Gibbens, Chippa...

Volcom’s Road Rager at What Youth With Ryan Burch, Ozzie Wright, live performance by Manipulator and so many of you eating tacos and drinking beer

This is seriously what makes us tick. Days and nights like this. At or place. After spending the morning and early...
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Volcom Road Rager at our place! Ryan Burch, Ozzie Wright and the whole band of Volcom pranksters are coming over Friday, March 9th from 3-7pm

Ryan Burch, Ozzie Wright and the Volcom band of Merry Pranksters have been Road Raging and zig-zagging their way across...
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Watch Creed McTaggart’s “Bong Edit” Plus, everything else he just dumped out of his iMovie archives

Creed is just being the kindest by giving us all these goods over the past 24-hours. First there was his...
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Watch “Downhill From Here” Creed, Beau, Ellis and friends…no irony.

How lucky is Billabong to have Creed? This little vid chronicles the Wash boys from their Oz practice space…to the...

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...

Let’s help Brayden Belden Laguna grom had a near fatal snowboarding accident and needs our help

It’s a scary reality of all the stuff we do: getting really hurt. And Laguna ripper Brayden Belden recently had...

The Ryan Burch Experiment Go surfing and shaping with Ryan, and see exactly what a clothing capsule of his looks like

Ryan Burch’s meteoric rise to attention is one of our favorite success stories in recent memory. He’s a funny kid who...
Tom Lowe, British Surfer, Nate Lawrence

Who’s that British madman? Collected Thoughts 135: The first time Nate Lawrence saw Tom Lowe paddle past him

Editor’s Note: You know we’re up to something when a dude like Tom Lowe’s name starts coming up. The British...
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Watch “Stranger Waves” Puerto Rico wedges with Dylan Graves

I thought when you did a hard drive dump you were supposed to be getting rid of all your bad,...
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Watch Yago Dora in “Floripa” This is one dude who still manages to stop us in our tracks to watch

If you wanna see some small wave ripping by one of our favorites, go watch this new vid from Yago...
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Torren Martyn Gliding Around Indonesia Sure to be some of the smoothest backhand surfing you’ve seen in some time

I watched this right before I went to sleep last night and spent the whole night dreaming about sliding around...
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Watch Tom Curren On The Occ-Cast Enough talking, let’s blade

Here’s a little change of pace if you, like me, have grown tired of rewatching Brendon Gibbens’ “Listen Now, Misty...
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Stream “Listen Now, Misty Dawn” Hopefully you’ve seen it live, downloaded and now you can stream it

I used to watch surf videos over and over and over again, until they crackled in the VCR, or the...
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Watch “Quivered” Rasta shows off what he’s got underneath his feet these days

A brief chat with Dave Rastovich about what he’s putting under his feet. It’s a neat lesson about what helps one...
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What A Weird Feeling Or, how I learned to stop complaining and love the Volcom Pipe Pro

Alright, I’d hate to chew your patience away with some 3000-word contest breakdown here. Besides, there’s no need for that. That’s...
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The Volcom Pipe Pro Wasn’t Terrible Yesterday And that’s coming from us.

You ever fallen out of bed, kicked the bed post, spilt the toothpaste on your work shirt, then died in...
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Watch “An Ode To The Queen” Another day at Rincon with Luke Davis, Yadin Nicol, Curren Caples, and more

Just another day at the Queen of The Coast. Rincon with Luke Davis, Yadin Nicol, Curren Caples, Griffin Colapinto, and more....

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....
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Watch “Eel Boy” Mason Ho doing Mason Ho things

Look, I love Mason Ho. You love Mason Ho. We all love Mason Ho. No one seems to have any gripes...
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Watch “Always More” “Just For Kicks” B-Sides with Noah Wegrich, Mitch Coleborn, and Nate Tyler

Remember Noah Wegrich’s “Just For Kicks” that came out on the start of January? No worries if you don’t because that...

Our night out in Florida We partied with Vissla and Jacuzzi Boys while world premiering the new Cam Richards part in Florida

No one does it quite like Florida. And we had that reiterated Friday night when we rallied up all our...
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Watch Cam Richards new part “22” This is why we partied with Cam and the Vissla crew Friday night

After we went and hung with Cam in South Carolina — fishing and riding motorcycles and catching sharks and the like...
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Watch “Rusty So Fresh” Team Rusty plays the hits

Would you look at that it’s another 2017 compilation video being shared in, well… late January 2018. But this is a...
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Watch “Happy Droid” Take a little trip south with Andrew Doheny and his forehand ditch

Go on a little jaunt with Droid and some of his hand shapes. There’s some Central America and some Baja...
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Watch “The Queen Awakens” Rincon with Dane Reynolds, Parker Coffin, the Guduaskas’, and more

The first real swell of the year is always a strange time. First people will say everything’s overhyped. Then the same...
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Watch Matt Meola in “Maui” It’s as if they’ve invented a sick new style of surfing

The things that Matt Meola and Albee Layer and their crew get up to in Maui is pretty damn sick. From...
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Watch the trailer for “22” The new part from Cam Richards and come to the world premiere in Florida Friday night

Remember when we went to the south and shot guns and rode motorcycles and caught sharks and followed Cam Richards...
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Watch Jack Freestone’s Atlantic Trip Portugal, France, and Africa with surfing’s newest cool dad

Jack Freestone surfing around Portugal, France, Africa, and other bits of the Atlantic. Safe to say Jack is one of the...
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Watch “Møments — MMXVII” An Australian road trip with Kolohe Andino, Jack Freestone, Mikey Wright, and more.

So you’ve probably heard we’re on a road trip right now. And I know we’re not ones to gloat, but aren’t...

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