Vail and Keystone
Riders: Dillon Wilson, Asher Humphreys, Xander Raith, Ben Elliott, Thomas Heckler and Sy Moran

Vail and Keystone
Riders: Dillon Wilson, Asher Humphreys, Xander Raith, Ben Elliott, Thomas Heckler and Sy Moran
At north Wales’s Surf Snowdonia, the world’s first Wavegarden, Red Bull delivered a whole new format for competitive surfing: 30 minute heats, best of 5 waves, and one of the most consistent breaks on a planet (well, duh, it’s a wave pool). After four rounds of knockout, Hawaii’s Albee Layer defeated New Zealand’s Billy Stairmand 3–1, and was crowned the kind of the lagoon.
Congratulations to Jesse Richman, who is the 2016 AWSI Kiteboarder of the Year.