SUPERGIRL: The World Surf League Women’s Qualifying Series Paul Mitchell Neon Supergirl Pro QS6,000 caped Courtney Conlogue it’s 2017 winner after a marathon finals day at Oceanside Pier. This marks Conlogue’s first-ever Supergirl Pro QS victory after a hard-fought battle with fellow Championship Tour

SUPERGIRL: An incredible day of surfing kicked off the World Surf League (WSL) Women’s Qualifying Series (QS) Paul Mitchell Neon Supergirl Pro QS6,000. Oceanside Pier delivered consistent two-to-three foot, occasional plus, swell for opening day as Rounds One, Two and Heats 1 through 6 of Round Three were com

WSL CT: Filipe Toledo has won the Corona Open J-Bay today after besting 2017 CT Rookie Frederico Morais in the Final. Stop No. 6 of 11 on the 2017 Championship Tour was graced with flawless conditions, resulting in barrier-breaking performances by the world’s best surfers, eight perfect 10-point rides and no shortage of drama.

CREATORS: Patrick Trefz is a surfer and photographer from Santa Cruz who has built a solid portfolio of images from his global travels. As comfortable in the wilds of Alaska as he is in the sidewalk sophistication of a Biarritz cafe, Patrick’s work is born out of travelling. He’s taken his visual sensibility and branched into film with projects like “Thread” and “Idiosyncracies”. With his latest project “Surfer’s Blood” his technical chops had to increase tenfold in the editing bay to attain the vision he had in mind. The new film is launching this month.

16 June, 2017 - FILM-PROXIMITY: We recently spoke with the man who stamped the blue print for the modern surf video. Taylor Steele, the creator responsible for the decades-long genre of quick edit surfstar- focused shot-from-the-beach videos set to third-wave punk rock and interspersed with tepid comedy sketches, has moved on. He moved past this a while back with “Sippping Jetstreams,” “Castles in the Sky” and Rob Machado’s existential angst bio “The Drifter.”