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Watch: Summer Street” Noa Mizuno in Morocco

We were sure we’d seen some footage of Noa at Morocco before and sure enough, the Internet delivered. A short...

Watch: “Late Dust Bowls” Tube-hound Jonathan Gubbins scores again

As we’ve mentioned, if there is a heaving left doing its thing there’s a good chance Mr. Gubbins will be...

Watch: “Insomnia” Featuring Jonathan Gubbins

As we know, the Indonesian archipelago has been on a bit of a run lately and clips have been dropping...

Watch: “Down From Waterloo” Featuring Jordy Lawler

The list of ripper goofyfooters from Sydney’s Northern Beaches, is ridiculously long. World champs and shit. Jordy is right up...

Watch: “Hey Joni” December in Peru with Jonathan Gubbins

Our pal Jonathan is back at it. Mr. Gubbins has been logging some quality barrel time in his native Peru...

Watch: “Motherland” A flick with Jordy Lawler

Australian Jordy Lawler has been on a tear of late. With a nice win at the CT in Manly last...

Watch: “Joyride” Starring Noa Mizuno

Well, the Melba Moore soundtrack had to tell you something was up. 70’s soul/disco isn’t really the genre of choice...

WY Fall Wish List Goodies for Autumn

Here’s the What Youth Fall Wishlist for all to enjoy! There are a plethora of goodies to grab online these...

What Youth x Highway 1 At the Boathouse Collective

In true What Youth form, we had some fun last Thursday evening. We brought surf, skate, music, and art together...

7 Seas Wetsuit by Vissla Featuring Gunner Day

Take the 7 Seas suit and you’ll see how far the tube goes. A comedic homage to the Matrix with...

HEATWAVE EVENT This Thursday Night at The Boathouse Collective in Costa Mesa

What are you doing this Thursday? If you have some free time head down to the Boathouse Collective in Costa...

Watch “Bocas Del Scoro” Down South

Simon Hetrick, Sam Neiger, and Matt McQueeney sought tubes on the Panamanian Islands of Bocas Del Toro and they found...

WATCH HOMEBODY Brendon Gibbens Scores Portugal, Australia and Beyond

South African, Brendon Gibbens, is the type of surfer you won’t here from for awhile. You sit back and wonder...

WATCH THE HUNT FOR THE 7 SEAS WETSUIT Vissla Loses Their Minds in the Desert

As fall approaches here in the Northern Hemi, Vissla just dropped it’s new Season 7 wetsuit trailer. We’d never blindly...

Watch “Exposed” Who the Hell Is Simon Hetrick?

We recently had the pleasure of hanging with Maryland native, Simon Hetrick. He’s another underground ripper from the East Coast...

Watch Toloka Vissla Is on the Run Again

From LA to Sumbawa the Vissla team gets around. Surfing has never looked so fun. Catch Eric Geiselman, Derrick Disney,...

Vissla: Summer Wetsuits Rubber Time Machine

    An homage to déjà vu. Back to the basics. The sunscreen. The feel. This salted nostalgia is making...

10 Reasons to Go to the Cosmic Creek surf festival HAVE YOU EVER BEEN EXPERIENCED?

The Cosmic Creek is a retro-style surf experience paying homage to an earlier era. If you want a taste of...

Eric Geiselman in Lark A video essay of Indonesian Wave Desecration

Spend a few months in Indo and you’re bound to get some good waves and clips. Lark managed to dodge...

The Thomas Campbell Collection by Vissla

Board-building, art and apparel? That’s what iconic artist Thomas Campbell is doing with Vissla, a brand that promotes creative freedom,...

Watch “Pedro’s Bay B-Sides” Return to that tropical blue wedge with Eric Geiselman, Brendon Gibbens, Bryce Young, and Cam Richards

Vissla released Pedro’s Bay sometime around July last year. It’s one of those films about a band of hopeless romantics searching...
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Watch “Small Talks” with Jason Woodside Meet the man behind the art on Vissla’s new collection

“You know you’ve made it, or you’re doing OK, when you can start saying no to things” Jason Woodside told us. And...

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 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...
what youth recommends holiday gift guide 2017

The What Youth Wish List Here are all the things we want this holiday season, which is probably stuff you or the youth on the run in your life will want

Being a youth on the run requires a significant amount of equipment. And I don’t mean useless consumer goods (well,...
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Fairly Normal: Cam Richards Episode 025: A trip into the deep south for a story that was far from ending @sealtooth

We shot guns. Caught a shark. Rode motorcycles. Drank light beer. Ate fried food. And immersed in deep southern culture with...
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Artisanal Surfboard Making Watch Vissla’s new series on making a surfboard from start to finish with Travis Reynolds (PT. 1)

In What Youth Issue 9 we addressed the rapid extinction of artisans. And it was an unlikely conversation with a...

Watch Field Trip | Chile Vissla heads to the land of lefts and fine red wine

Chile is a wonderful place. The water is thawed-ice-water cool. The lefts run for miles and miles. Swell is non-stop....
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Watch the new film: Pedro’s Bay The romantics at Vissla do it again: This time in their new film with Eric Geiselman, Brendon Gibbens, Bryce Young, Cam Richards and more

Vissla is a brand full of hopeless romantics. And we love that about them. Their new film has us scouring...
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Vissla’s “Pedro’s Bay” Trailer A new film is coming. Starring Brendon Gibbens, Eric Geiselman, Cam Richards and more

Vissla continues to create and innovate and it sounds like are releasing a new film this summer called “Pedro’s Bay”...
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Let’s talk about trunks (briefly) We built this industry on them, so why are so few pairs worthy of your thighs?

Today marks the release of Former’s “Control” boardshort. So yes, full disclosure, we back them, and what they’re doing, so...

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