“Here & Home” is a new series focusing on the individual lives of our surfers. The piece takes an in-depth look at how they spend their time at home and on the road. Here, we feature Torrey Meister. Torrey owes everything to the Big Island of Hawaii, surfing variable conditions over shallow, sharp reefs. It developed his surfing into what we see today.
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The weather opened up, the action kicked off. Superpark 20 is officially underway at Mammoth Mountain, presented by Nexen Tire USA in conjunction with Oakley. On the second day, the crew of 400+ snowboarders started tackling the behemoth snow creations built by Bear Mountain, Seven Springs, Boreal, and Mammoth Unbound, but while the above video showcases some of the first hits in the SP20 park, there’s no warm ups here. Jaeger Bailey, Dylan Alito, Nik Baden, Shaun Murphy, Zach Normandin, Judd Henkes, Chas Guldemond, Brandon Davis, Chris Corning, Kyle Mack, Danimals, Erik Leon, Harrison Gordon and his dad, David Gordon, Lucas Magoon, Gabe Ferguson, Sebbe De Buck, and Halldor Helgason were throwing down.
Is the acceleration of women’s performances in big wave surfing a new phenomenon? Are we really witnessing the beginning of the fairer sex becoming a force in waves traditionally dominated by men?
The conversation certainly picked up a bit more volume this winter, with the 2016 WSL XXL Big Wave Awards serving as a bit of a closing statement when Keala Kennelly bagged the Pure Scot Barrel Award. It signals more than a dramatic shift in surfing history. It’s a move to … More