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Archive for the 'Appearances' Category

Vote for Nat on Innersection.tv

Friday, March 12th, 2010

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Taylor Steele, the man behind most some of the most innovative and high performance surfing videos, has come up with fresh concept for his latest project. Welcome to innersection.tv, where the world’s top surfers can upload their own video sections to be voted and critiqued for the chance to be included in the final Innersection DVD. Only 20 sections will make the cut, and from these 20 the top 5 qualifiers will be chosen and you will be able to vote to decide which section deserves the grand prize of $100,000. So let’s get our boy Nat Young some votes! His section is rad, even if you don’t like the song you got to admit the surfing is top notch, so check it out and let Innersection know what you think!
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Babes and Waves

Friday, February 19th, 2010

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Our favorite issue of Surfing Magazine just showed up. The 2010 Swimsuit Issue! Don’t get over excited, we aren’t going to spill all the beans here, you’re going to have to pick up a copy for yourself to peep out all the babes. You’re for sure going to want to check out the smoking babe on page 38 rocking the Hammerhead Chrono XL, and yes she’s literally smoking. So as much as we like bikini models, we like bikini surfers even better. After all, Freestyle is all about performance, so here’s a video courtesy of our friends at O’Neill of real surfer babe Sage Erickson shredding the waves!
Babes and Waves, Babes and Waves!


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We don’t call him Shreddy for nothing

Friday, February 12th, 2010

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Big congrats to our loyal surf ambassador Teddy Navarro for scoring the cover of Surfshot’s Spring 2010 issue. Here’s Teddy chucking his patented frontside Shark Fin grab air reverse. With all the waves we’ve been having Teddy’s shredding has been in overdrive which means you’ll be seeing a lot more coverage of Teddy in the near future.
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Close only counts in horse shoes and hand grenades

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

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Big ups to our boy Anthony Walsh for busting through a field of the world best surfers to claim 2nd place in the 2010 Volcom Pipeline Pro. As they say, 2nd place is the first loser, but when you come 2nd to Jamie O’Brien, arguably the best Pipe surfer in the world, you could still call it a victory!
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While Walshy made the most of his opportunities, often times surfing pipe comes down to a game of inches. Inches from making it or inches from getting slaughtered. Of the many insane rides that went down during the contest, this backdoor ride from Cory Lopez is the one that got away. So close, yet so far away. If he makes it he lives to surf another heat, unfortunately for Cory he got clipped and was sent home early. Probably still playing this ride in his mind. One thing for sure, Cory will be back!

Rail Park Stylee

Monday, January 18th, 2010



Peep this clip of our favorite female wake shredder Melissa Marquardt from the CWC rail park in the Philippines. Is it an illusion, or does that look like a ton of fun? Not an illusion, it’s a ton of fun and especially so if you can do it with as much style and ease as Melissa.

Speaking of style, here’s Melissa rocking the new Speed Dial.

And jumping for joy in the new Summer.