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Conversation With: Zion Wright Rolling Through the Playground

Zion Wright knows what’s up. The 20-year-old is no stranger to traveling abroad and searching for spots to stack some clips, especially around Los Angeles’ diverse terrain. Between skitching cars, getting slingshotted into traffic and doing back threes up and down Melrose, Zion, and Alex Midler, hooked up with some friends from the night before…

Watch “Best January Waves” A French Chat with Jeremy Flores

If you speak french, you’ll love this! If not, open the Youtube settings and get it translated into subtitles. In this short interview by our friends at Ripitup, our favorite French legend serves up some interesting comments on a variety of subjects. Many of which are completely butchered in the translation. No, we don’t parlez-vous…

What Youth Does: Kaden Russi A Q&A

A chat with Kaden Russi. What Youth has always been about capturing the ins and outs of young and interesting personalities. Keeping an eye out for those earliest of flare-ups from a hot young grom being one of the more rewarding tasks we are assigned with. Watching a kid push his way to the top…

Opinion Can we all just get along?

Yesterday we posted on our Instagram account what we thought was a simple recognition of a young woman who we admire for her courage and determination in bringing light to a subject that apparently she feels is important. Really, more about a young person inspiring her generation than any specific position on climate change. We…

Watch “Surf Hossegor” Jeremy, Marc, and the crew in France.

Unless you’ve been there in person, its hard to really get a grasp of the place. Hossegor, La Graviere, Les Culs Nus, etc. All epic on their day, but oh so elusive. First, the tide swings in this part of the world are massive so the deal changes moment by moment. Second, you can be…

Na-Kel Smith and Adidas Drop Rivalry HI Fresh Kicks

Well, here they go again. Adidas skateboarding just dropped Na-Kel’s new shoe. It’s another unique take on an old classic, all wrapped up in the man’s very personal style. Ironically, his first pair was a gift from Adidas that according to Na-Kel, “I wore it so much they asked me to release it.” Well, we…

Read: An open letter to Erik Logan We aren’t asking much

As was reported a few days ago, Sophie Goldschmidt, the current CEO of the World Surfing League, will be stepping down and will be replaced by the current WSL VP of Content, Media, and Studios, Erik Logan. That change taking place sometime next week. That in mind, we thought it might be a good time…

Watch “How to Learn How to Surf” A film by Tom Sachs

Wait, what? Who’s Tom Sachs and why is he teaching surf lessons? Here’s the deal, Tom Sachs is a very accomplished sculptor/artist dude from NY who coincidently has been also trying to learn to surf for like the last 20 years. And no, he isn’t teaching anyone to surf. How to Learn How to Surf…