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2022 Men's Biggest Paddle In Winner: Billy Kemper At Jaws

2022 Men's Biggest Paddle In Billy Kemper at Jaws on November 2, 2021. Video from Marco Arellano.

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2022 Men's Ride Of The Year Winner: Francisco Porcella At Jaws

Men's Ride Of The Year Francisco Porcella at Jaws on November 2, 2021. Video from Jace Panebianco.

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2022 Women's Biggest Tow In Winner: Justine Dupont at Nazare

2022 BWA Women's Biggest Tow In Nominee: Justine Dupont at Nazare Video by Thomas Slavik.

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2022 Women's Ride Of The Year Winner: Justine Dupont At Teahupoo

2022 Women's Ride Of The Year Justine Dupont At Teahupoo on August 13, 2021. Video from Manea Fabish.

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Meet One Of The Pioneers Of Street Skateboarding Mike Vallely | SKATE TALES S2 Ep 6

In truth, we probably haven’t got enough bandwidth to do the twists and turns of Mike Vallely’s skateboarding life story justice- so let us perhaps instead consider some of the many roles he has played in order to provide some context as to what makes him such an enduring enigma.

There are worse places to start charting his cultural ascent within skateboarding than his breakout section from Powell Peralta’s game-changing 1988 video release Public Domain. Skateboarding was changing daily at that point with the genesis of street skating and Mike V’s East Coast aesthetic and floppy- wristed silhouette caught the attention of an entire skateboarding world that had realised that there was more to this culture than hero-worshipping the MTV- generation of sleeveless T-shirted Californian vert professionals who were appearing more dated and anachronistic by the day.

His double-kick Barnyard board for World Industries effectively signalled a new era in skateboarding trick development which Salman Agah would later pioneer and effectively treble the skateboarding trick lexicon by adding nollie and switchstance possibilities to every trick hitherto utilising the ollie alone.

Despite being on a tangent to what the skateboarding mainstream was doing, Vallely was still an enticing prospect to sponsors precisely because he has always had his own constituency within skateboarding: 120,000 Mexicans turned out to watch him put on a one-man skate demo in 2008.

Accordingly, he would ride for brands like Powell, Black Label and Element Skateboards when each of those brands were at the peak of their powers before finally starting his own Street Plant label in 2015 while somehow finding time along the way to front the re-formed punk band Black Flag and have stints in both semi- professional wrestling and ice hockey.

Now settled with his family in Des Moines, Iowa he has enjoyed a 35-year pro skating career on his own terms. There are no other Mike Vallely’s.

Madars Apse hits the streets with a true original to learn about Street Plant, punk rock and the journey of a street scoundrel from New Jersey.

Punta Roca: The Newest Addition to the WSL World Tour

El Salvador is the latest country to join the WSL Championship Tour with fabled Punta Roca a welcome addition to this year’s roster. For those unfamiliar, Punta Roca is a world class, cobblestone-lined point break that has surfers flocking from all corners of the globe to sink their teeth into its long, running rights. The bath-water-warm waves serve up everything from tubes to long walls and punchy air sections; providing tour surfers with everything they could desire in a competition venue. Ace lensman Scotty Hammonds was in town to capture all of the freesurfing that happened before, after and in and around the contest as the world’s best surfers rolled into tropical Central America and lit up Punta Roca like never before.

In our edit above point break specialist Jordy Smith kicks things off in the heat with some trademark flare before Kanoa Igarashi and Ethan Ewing join the party. Wildcard Josh Burke, rookie sensation Callum Robson and resurgent South African Matty McGillivray find the conditions to their liking, before Carissa Moore plays a starring role and Gabriela Bryan comes out swinging.

Surprise packet Jackson Baker enters the fray, then Jack Robinson makes a surprise entrance at the 2:20 mark which nobody saw coming. Brisa Hennessy flies the flag for the home team, and Caroline Marks makes a very welcome return to the Championship Tour fold as the waves continue to pump. Speaking of returns, Yago Dora is back to remind us all of his much-missed style and grace. Griffin Colapinto stands up and throws down, showing the form that eventually led him to the top of the podium, Italo Ferreira reminds us he has world title to his name in waves similar to his Brazilian hometown,

Punta Roca was a fun new location, and this is the best of the action. Grab your popcorn and settle in for five minutes of El Salvadorian shredding… enjoy.

The City Surf Project | In Plain Sight

Within the San Francisco city limits, the beach is never more than 7 miles away. But still, more than 80% of the local youth population has never been in the ocean. The City Surf Project aims to change that, and for the last decade they've made it their mission to introduce surfing to a new generation of wave riders all over the Bay Area.

To read more on the City Surf Project and to support the organization directly, check out an interview with student turned alumni instructor Josh Salmon: https://www.redbull.com/us-en/city-surf-project

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The Story Of Double-Amputee Pro Skater Felipe Nunes | SKATE TALES S2 Ep 4

Felipe Nunes is a 22-year old skater from Curitiba in Brazil. Aged just six, he lost both legs while playing on train tracks.

After five years in a wheelchair, he was given a longboard to get around on. That longboard would become a skateboard- and the rest is history. In a short space of time he was competing in and winning contests against all-comers within his native Brazil.

People began to notice just how talented he really was. Aged eighteen, Felipe felt ready to make it beyond Brazil and started a social media fund to enter Tampa Am. Tony Hawk championed his cause, and Felipe was headed to Florida.

Incredibly, he made the Semi’s, and finished 21st overall as the only adaptive skater in the contest! Felipe had the skateboarding world’s attention, and soon joined Tony’s brand Birdhouse Skateboards.
In 2019, he scored the cover of Thrasher magazine and did The Loop, second go.

Now pro for Birdhouse Skateboards, his career has gone from strength to strength.

Skate Tales is all about the skateboarding stories you don’t hear- as the man himself says: no excuses!

Kai Lenny is put to The Test at Pe'ahi | Life of Kai Season 2 Finale

It’s Super Swell Saturday at Jaws and Kai aims to turn in the year’s best performance at his home break. But a series of tests, both physical and mental, take him to the brink of what he thinks is possible.

In the fifth and final installment of Life of Kai, Season 2, we jump in the passenger seat as Kai tackles super swells and continues to explore his cross training regiment. Dive in now as Kai pushes himself and the sport to new heights

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