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...

Newsstand: Chippa. by Respondek A Series

As you may have seen, legendary photographer John Repondek has been churning out a book series featuring some of surfing’s...

Conversation With: Mollie Moore Drawing New Lines of Inspiration

Mollie Moore is passionate about her work. While the mediums may change from graphing to garments, her approach continues to expand...

Newsstand: Justin Jay’s HI 1K A North Shore Study

A few years back photographer Justin Jay touched down in Honolulu intent on capturing the eclectic North Shore surf scene....

Fairly Normal: William Aliotti Episode 027: On the Road

Episode 027: One of the good things that has come from the Internet is the instant access, 24/7 coverage of...

WHAT YOUTH DRINKS: Sazerac An Evening Delight

Here’s a drink to reach for, the official cocktail from New Orleans: the Sazerac. With its ample bitters and sepia...

Conversation With: Josh Harmony A Peek Into His Mind

Josh Harmony is softspoken and shares kindness wherever he may roam. He’s a skateboarder, musician, artist, Dad, and a spiritual human...

Photo Credit: Nick Green Portfolio 041: From Tasmania with Love

Hailing from Tasmania but now truly a citizen of the road, Nick Green has travelled the map capturing the familiar...

Fairly Normal: Beatrice Domond Episode 26: Beatrice Domond Wants Her Wikipedia Taken Down

She thinks her Wikipedia is sketchy. A humble and talented skater originally hailing from South Florida, Beatrice has been on...

WY Wears: “Portraits of Autumn” Imagery 003: Shots by Ashton Herman

It’s fall here in California so we had a few of our good friends come through the office and hang...

Watch “Portraits of Autumn” Office Play

Autumn is here; that’s why we thought it would be interesting to make some stuff with our friends. Regardless of season,...

Conversation With: The Chats Into the World of These Lads

The Chats are an Australian band of quick wit who know how to leave an impression and start a pit....

What Youth Wears: Grace and Reese 002: A Day in August

As we are known to do, we recently connected with some friends of What Youth, Grace Dobie and Reese Turigliatto....

Photo Credit: Chris Peel Portfolio 040: Three Phones, One Camera

Although Chris Peel has been around for a while, more and more of his stuff was beginning to find it’s...

Photo Credit: Sarah Kinsella Portoflio 039: A Natural Eye

Sarah “Louise” Kinsella is a photographer based in Sydney with an eye for life. She picked up photography from her Dad...

Girl We Adore: Sophie Lynn Time Travel, Ice Cream and Netflix

What Youth: What’s your full name? Sophie: Sophie Flores Do you have any nicknames? Auntie Pee Pee What music have...

Photo Credit: Ashton Herman Portfolio 038: Gone with the Lens

Ashton Herman gets shit done. Young Ashton came to us via a persistent badgering to be a WY intern. We kinda...

What Youth Wears: Jaydah Robinett 001: Hello Spring

Spring is here in Southern California. So we strolled with our friend Jaydah in a new bucket hat and other WY...

Conversation With: Launder Dog Walks, Breakfast Tacos and Freeing From Distraction

John Cudlip is the mind, and voice of Launder. When we arrived at his house in Silverlake, we were greeted by...

Photo Credit: Dylan Gordon Portfolio 037: Some Eyes May Wander

Another day, another inbox full of tidbits from far and wide. Today, however, we stumbled across a truly creative lensman...

Listen: Sonic Youth Surfing’s most important band?

Whether you’ve ever liked them or not isn’t really the question. No, it’s way more about a broader cultural influence...

Dirty ‘ol Wedge Grab your speedos and fins, it’s May 1!

As we sometimes do, we ended up at our favorite Mexican joint on yet another Friday afternoon. And, as we...

Watch: “Maps of Home” Featuring John Florence

We’ve been waiting to see more of that epic outer reef session in Hawaii that went down a few months...

Watch: “Ofélia” A groovy film by Joao Carmo

As we often mention, quite a few submissions arrive here at What Youth on a regular basis. It can be...

Watch: “Rock” Mikey Wright in Hawaii through the lens of Wade Carroll

Every few years or so a new talent comes up through the ranks, maybe wins a few junior events on...

Watch: Von Froth “My Worst Wipeouts”

If you play in Nic’s playground you’re going to cop a beating once in a while. It’s just a percentage...

Watch: “One Day” Featuring William Aliotti

Like many of Europe’s better surf talent these days, William Aliotti is a hard-working man. A pros pro you might...

What Youth Drinks: Tequila Our little friend from south of the border

Oh yes, Tequila, our little friend from south of the border.  Tequila has built itself quite a reputation over the...

Watch: “Sonic Souvenirs” Featuring Mikey February

We’ve been kicking around this concept for a while now of how surfing and music were once so very much...

Watch: Chapter 11 “Emo Micky”

After watching the comp in Newy last week and then this cool little clip right after, it was hard not...

TAKE FIVE: EP 16 ‘Rona be damned, the WSL is going to Rio

While the WSL had our attention watching the comp in Newcastle last week (Congrats to Italo and Carissa by the...

Watch: Snapt4 Clay’s B Rolls

Come on, this is just getting ridiculous at this point. As the “world’s best” grovel in some Newcastle fuzz, Logan...

Watch: “Von Froth” EP 25 The Cave

As we’ve come to expect from Von Froth, slabbing pits with a high danger factor are just how he rolls....

Watch: “Mason at the Wedge” A masterstroke of good times

Although it all looks like fun and games, we promise you that even at 3-4 feet there were some serious...

Photo Credit: Dan Woodward

During a clean little run of swell down under a few days ago, photographer Dan Woodward bagged a few beauties....

Take Five: EP 15 Noa Deane’s transcendent moment

Hard to believe it’s been seven-plus years already since Noa Deane’s uncomfortable to some moment at the Surfer Poll Awards....

Watch: “Days at Bowl” Featuring Josh Burke

It’s kinda cool watching surfers grown into their own. The rail gets a little wetter, the bashes get slightly more...

Watch: “The Greatest Winter Ever to Hit France” Part Deux

All the hyperbole aside, the Hossegor region of France was off the chain this past winter. As we’ve mentioned previously,...

Watch: “Welcome Home” Featuring Chris Zaffis

If we’ve said it once, we’ve said it a thousand times: There’s a boatload of underground talent out there. That...

Watch: Snapt4 “Grovel Camp” Featuring Jack Robbo

Either this is the greatest video release marketing campaign ever or Logan Dulien has pulled off a scam for the...