Fire Threat

On a day when the fires hadn’t yet become a threat and most Southern California surfers jockeyed for position on their favorite peak, a select number of surfers enjoyed the best conditions we’d seen in months in relative solitude, picking off wave after wave nearly uncontested… at a contest nonetheless. Who wouldn’t want to surf a contest heat in perfect conditions with only a few guys out? You gotta be freakin’ kidding me. The first etnies GvR of Surf, a unique, team-based competition pitting regular footers against goofy footers, went absolutely nuts. An open, more progressive judging criteria had surfers going for it; Tim Curran almost pulled two flips, Ratboy got his tube on all day, and countless others were killing it. Hands down, one of the best contests I’ve ever seen first hand or otherwise and a pleasure to shoot. If you missed it, you were probably down the beach gettin’ sick tubes.