Surf Trips

Well... Conner left to Indo last friday and being an only child sucks! So I decided to call a couple friends and get together a surf trip. Off to mexico to get tubed with Dusty Payne, Matt Wilkinson, photographer Damea Dorsey, Dusty's filmer Jason Hatch, and of course Ryan Perry. Hopefully we get super barreled for the next week. Channel Islands once again hooked up the quiver of a lifetime! Here's a photo of what I'm bringing on my trip:

left to right: 6'10'' proton step up, 6'6'' proton step up, 5'9'' semi pro, 6'4'' mbm step up, 6'6'' mbm step up, and a 5'8'' cheestick.

Conner Coffin... in WASTED!

Riley Blakeway.... hmmm well he's good. He's really damn good. He was on a trip last summer with Conner in indonesia for about two weeks. On that two week boat trip, Conner was shredding. So, filmers and shredding means a rad video part. Here is Conner's "rad" video part. Good song, good shredding, good video part!!

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FRED RUBBLE

Fred Rubble is out now! Go order yours!

First day of the contest!

Peru Dia Uno

Today is actually the 4th day we have spent in Peru, but it was day one of the competition and definitely the most exciting day thus far. 7 of our team member surfed today in the under 18 and 16 divisions. Our stats were really good with 6 of the 7 kids (including parker and I) winning our heats and one getting a 2nd place. The highlight for me was watching Kanoa drop his wallet three times on a nugget and get a 6.83. Parker's heat was right before mine at the opposite area so I didn't get to watch him, but he blew up on the right and bagged a 8.33 and a 6.50. I surfed on the left and started the heat with an 8.17 before it went pretty flat. I rode an inside wave for a 4.33 right before the end of the heat and then stammered over the urchin covered rocks unscathed. All in all the waves were really fun and everyone got the job done. We're waiting to find out the schedule for tomorrow, but everyone is pumped to be down here representing the USA surf team!!! Check out the webcast at www.isawjsc.com and cheer on the team! Follow our twitter (youngwisetails) for updates on the team as well.

Parker VQS

Hey guys... Conner and I just got home from the VQS champs down in Newport Beach. It is probably one of my favorite contests of the year because the vibe is always so funny and mellow. Perry and Conner came down to hangout and cheer me on and it totally worked! I got second behind my good friend Ian Crane. Besides myself, I wouldn't have had any other person than Ian win. Ian is classic and being the good friend he is, he bought me a sushi dinner with his 7 grand that he won! I ended up getting 3 grand and some cool prizes. Thanks to Oda for letting me stay at his house, the Volcom boys for the wildcard into the contest, Perry for filming and editing, and Conner for being my cheerleader. yew!

New Port

Parker is in the finals of the VQS. He's gonna win! I'm board caddying and perry is filming. It's sunny. There's girls on the beach in bikinis. Life is Good. 

Fred Rubble

Web world, shredders, surf junkies, meet Fred. Fred has been a creation with the boys at Channel Islands surfbords and myself. We came up with the name Fred Rubble for a few different reasons. Mainly it is due to the fact that the board is kind of a mix of a bunch of different stuff. It isn't particularly like any other model in CI's line. It all spawned with my inability to ride a proton when the waves were junky and crappy and/or mushy and gutless. Protons are awesome and are my favorite in waves, but when your a heavy footed turd, they can be pretty hard to grovel on. So, we designed Fred. Fred is wider through the outline and in the tail, has a low entry rocker, fuller rails, and has a double concave to v through the back half. With these features I have found Fred to be the perfect all around short board for California. It has become my go-to board for contests and free surfing in any waves head high and under. It's still a work in progress but it is well under way, and man have I sure had a few really good ones. It loves to go fast and is still nice and loose while excelling when put on rail. Even I have managed to get in the air a few times on it, and that's saying something! The second reason we named it Fred Ruble, is because of my feet. I have THE widest feet ever. I have always joked around and said that I have Fred Flinstone feet. Well, it's true. Plus, I even look kind of like the guy....  Anyways, Fred is well underway, and in June it should be making an official release into the world of surfboards and ready for all of you to shred on.
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Show Them To Me

Country music. What a great musical outlet when used in the right context. A wise man once said the world would be a more peaceful place if everyone listened to country music. After seeing this video we don't think we could agree more. Maybe we need to ditch the Danzig concerts and start attending more country concerts?? Lets go about making the country a more peaceful place. HAH.

The Film That Never Was

Last summer, Dang that sounds like a long time ago... Well, last summer I went on a Stab trip with Jack Robo, Ian Gentil, and Caio Ibelli. We went to the telos islands and got a few super fun days of waves. Riley Blakeway was the man  behind the lens on this trip and between sessions he kept me laughing my ass off. Riley has a unique style of editing and I was looking forward to see what he came up with from our trip. Here's the trailer for the film he compiled... Wasted.

WASTED! from Riley Blakeway on Vimeo.

Spring Time Menagerie

Spring time typically consists of lots of wind, cold water, and fun wind swell. This spring has been mostly typical with the exception of some pretty good waves. We've been trying to compile footage for a transworld movie, but at the same time not lose surfing from YWT. It's been a harder balance than we thought. This video is comprised of a menagerie of clips from the last few months that just didn't really fit into anything else that we have done. Enough explaining...

Youngwsietails.com Shoes!!

Our Friday so far is AMAZING. Breakfast with the family, awesome food, some schoolwork, and now our newly designed YOUNGWISETAILS SHOES! This was a collaboration between YWT and Reef and we are pumped on the way they came out! The first two pairs that were made showed up at our house today and did not disappoint.  I mean, who has TITS on the in-sole of their shoes?? Pretty hard to go wrong in our eyes. These are the samples and the real deal should be in stores soon! We'll keep you posted on the progress and keep an eye out for them in stores! He's a few photos of them... enjoy.

Coolest Thing EVER

Blair is the man. He is a very, very good man. We see eye to eye on pretty much everything. Today he sent me an email, just like most days. Except this one was special. It included the link to an amazing website showcasing girls in yoga pants. Being a 17 year old kid I have thought that yoga pants (the nice tight stretchy ones that tend to really highlight contours) are an awesome invention. On any given morning you are guaranteed to find coffee shops bustling with women in stretchy yoga pants. It's a special site and I feel blessed to have grown up in this generation of stretchy yoga pants. Here are a few highlights from the site. Please, do yourself a favor and check it out. Here is the link. http://girlsinyogapants.com/

Lowers Porta-potty Missions

Last week we hung out down in Encinitas for a few days getting ready for the Rob Machado Junior event. We took one afternoon to head up to lowers and get some waves. It was super fun. Oh, and we were shooting follow cam with that dude, not burning him on every wave!!

West OZ

A little while ago I was invited on a Volcom marketing trip to Western Australia with the team. Along for the trip was Dusty Payne, Mitch Coleborn, Nate Tyler, Ozzie Wright, Andrew Doheny, Alex Gray, and the one and only Matt Bemrose. With our massive surf group, we also had Jack Morrissey, Matt Shuster, Brian Bielman, Andrew Christie, and for a little of the trip Tom Carey documenting our every move. This was the most all time crew you could have on a trip. Constantly laughing, we did a lot of different activities. We surfed, chased kangaroos, ate a lot of food, randomly discovered an Ostrich egg in a supermarket, drove past Emus, the whole shibang. We did it all. I ended up perforating my eardrum about four days into the trip and didn't surf for about five days. However, I managed to stuff some ear plugs in and surf some of the most amazing waves of my life. We met up with a good man named Courtney Brown, who showed us around where he lives. Courtney is one of the most mellow cats you'll ever meet and is very hospitable. Thanks to Courtney we scored waves and got tubed all day. Below are some random Iphone photos I got from the trip. I wish I had some more photos, but I don't.

Driving with the boys 12 hours to Courtney's hometown

Some local talent

Droid... The man the myth and the legend

Andrew Christie, aka Crispy, aka The Bird

Alex Gray zoolander