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A new Morning, Changing Weather So I guess I’m going to start doing this every day

Yep. Since I can’t quite spread my wings enough on social media and still relay all the rad shit we’re...
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Lizards of Summer Episode 015: Gerr, Taj, Dinky, Japan, Panama, Vancouver, Metallica and many other international terminals and street corners

Well, the Eddie is off today. But all is definitely not lost. Because we’re back with an all-new Lizards of...
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Watch Balaram Stack in Panama New York’s greatest export samples the Caribbean

Balaram Stack is our East Coast informant. New York Hip Hop a season early. NorthEast storm tracker, Yankee ticket supplier,...
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Watch Clay Marzo in West Oz So happy he’s still putting these out

Clay Marzo continues to call West Oz (second) home, and you can see why here. Clay continues to live the...
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Watch TGIF with Dane Reynolds, Yadin Nicol, Dillon Perillo

We don’t normally encourage this type of release to recommend, and the quality is a little suss, but we do love...
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For The Love: Andy Davis Episode 021: Playful, psychedelic and light presented by Vissla

You know Andy Davis’ art. Even if you don’t know it yet. It’s fun and colorful and somehow skirts around the...
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Adolescents: Kyuss King Episode 009: The groms are back. And this time they’re punks. Presented by Gorilla

Groms get us hyped. Their neck tanlines. Their day-glo wetsuits and how they insist on surfing all damn day on...
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The What Youth Caption Contest Photo captions are dead. Let’s reinvent them.

Photo captions suck because they’re easy to write instead of great to read.
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Watch Ford and Matt Archbold See, style still rules when you’re Ford and Archy

It’s really nice to watch these two surf together. Ford forged his own path and is currently touring around the world with his...
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Watch “The Chain” Starring Seth Moniz and a Fleetwood Mac track

After watching 20-year-old Makai McNamara nearly take down two surfing legends (Kelly and Bruce) and one of Pipeline’s princes (JOB) at...
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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...

The WY Guide: Portugal Champagne tastes for Coors Light Income in the Old World

Portugal is so vogue right now. Ignore the questionable calls of the WSL and think Kate Moss late ’90s. Think...
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Watch the Volcom Pipe Pro Right Now A surf contest we honestly and highly recommend

We’ve become somewhat notorious for being against most formal surf competitions, but we usually like to give credit where credit is...
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Watch Through the Trees Starring Kolohe Andino, Ian Crane, Yadin Nicol, Tanner Gudauskas and Dane Gudauskas

The title says it all. Pretty creepy video, but the boys are making the most of it with the wind and...
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Watch Mick Fanning at Snapper Oh yeah, it’s Summer in Australia…

While we’re still hanging up our 4/3’s in the shade here in California, Mick Fanning and the boys at Snapper...
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Watch Greetings From Jonas With Balaram Stack, Joe Perrino, James Theobald, Pat Schmidt, Mike Gleason and Friends

Apparently the blizzard is still on. People keep pumping out video after video of Jonas. This latest clip has an old school...
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Watch Cold Outside With Shane Burn, Dylan Kowalski, Evan Barton

Hearing Ludacris over a surf edit was definitely a first. Kinda sounds like a ghetto Christmas song. Maybe, throw another...
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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...

Winter Storm Jonas Balaram Stack, Pat Schmidt, Corey Frank, and Thomas Ihnken surf frozen New York

Jonas was supposed to keep the East Coast cooped up in their houses, but Balaram and his friends know that when...
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Watch The Dill and Beeg Project The boys just absolutely nailed it

Friday night in Venice, California I sat and watched this movie at the premiere that Dillon Perillo and Brendon Gibbens...

Seaweed Salad Starring Ian Crane, Brett Barley, Torrey Meister, Jake Kelley, Kei Kobayashi, Colt Ward

North Shore in November and December is a shit show. Everyone is there and there’s good reason to be. O’Neill’s...
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Watch Banjo Strings A delight from Jack Coleman featuring Ryan Burch, Tom Curren and Rob Machado

Do we need to give a reason why? The audio won’t necessarily pump you up, but respect the art behind...

Watch Land of the Left Featuring Jonathan Gubbins, Pato Texiera, Magoo De La Rosa

Attention all goofy footers, book your next flight to Peru. We don’t care if you have or haven’t heard of these...
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This is Yago Dora We couldn’t love him more, and you will too

We met Yago Dora on this trip. The ever-smiling “Yogs.” Without much formality, we Instagram-directed him an invitation to come...
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Watch Mikey Wright in “Rage” ’90s adrenaline, Mikey Wright vibe and ripping in the name of

Mikey Wright just dropped the most high octane, fuck it-filled Hawaii edit we’ve seen in years. With the perfect juxtaposition...
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Earth to Jordy…We want more of this. Collected Thoughts 091

Jordy, where’d you go? We wanna see more of this this year. Find good waves. Book those last minute flights....
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Watch “Welcome Elsewhere” A clip by Kai Neville starring Craig Anderson

Craig Anderson demonstrates the proper way to disappear and then reappear with one of the strongest video releases we’ve seen in...
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Craig Anderson in “Welcome Elsewhere” Craig walks us through his new video

Any minute now Craig Anderson will drop his new video “Welcome Elsewhere.” You’ll be able to watch it right here at...

Watch Oliver Kurtz Hammer the Globe Hard to call him underground anymore

It’s weird to call Oliver underrated or underground because we’ve known him since he was young, but I think when...
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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...
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The What Youth 2015 Memoirs This is what a year of good living looks like

Instead of fill this page with even more statements about good living, we think this video does all the work itself. Also,...
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Santa Cruz, localism, kooks and me. Collected Thoughts 090

I recently made a mistake. I took a photo at a spot in Santa Cruz and posted it on our...

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