Kyle Thiermann talks about his go-to cold water surf trip essentials.
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Layne Stratton compiled his collection of tube attempts gone wrong at some of the gnarliest barrels around the world: Panama’s elusive Silverbacks, the heaving ledges of Teahupoo and even Pipeline.
Watch Landon McNamara, Mason Ho, Luke Davis, Brett Barley, Eli Olson, Ian Crane, Jack Robinson, Bruno Santos and more get tossed by some heavies.
“Anything is possible.” That’s what Cliff Kapono learned from Larry Bertlemann when Kapono was growing up on the Big Island of Hawaii, discovering his influences and laying the groundwork for his own approach in the water.
For Kapono, Bertlemann was style incarnate, but just as important as his approach to surfing was, the fact that he was a Hawaiian defining radical surfing at the time was of equal importance. While most surfers Kapono’s age looked to modern reference points like Kelly Slater and the Momentum Generation, Kapono found a deeper inspiration in the history of Hawaiian surfing, and in characters like Bertlemann, who showed him that there was truly no limit to what he could do in the water.
Kapono has applied Bertlemann’s “Anything is possible” philosophy to more than just surfing, seeking excellence not only in the lineup, but in higher education, which lead to Kapono attaining a PhD in chemistry from the University of California, San Diego, earlier this year.
Albee Layer pulled off what looked like an original move on a surfboard. Soon after, the royalty of surfing, skateboarding and snowboarding began a debate about what to call it.
It was mid-May when Albee Layer soared off a wave in Maui and did something exceptional, if not unprecedented, on a surfboard. He sped along the wave and then launched into the air, taking off facing away from the beach and turning back toward where he came from — known as an alley oop — rotating a little more than 360 degrees. He landed backward on the wave and then slid another 180 degrees to ride in facing forward.
Days later, video of the move went viral, and soon the surfing, skateboarding and snowboarding worlds were colorfully debating what it should be called … More