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For those of you who don't go to Vice Tv to check out the latest and greatest segments, you should! vbs.tv has a bunch of different channels with tons of really cool crap that will keep you entertained for hours on end and it's actually really informative.
This is a piece they did on Alex Knost, there are 3 different parts and this is the first, I thought it turned out really good.

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Steve Sherman is officially unofficial, which means he won't be working at Surfing mag full time as staff photo editor and he will be working full time on the road with his camera in hand and the wind at his back. I'm looking forward to seeing all the great stuff he's going to get and I think Surfing will be as well.






The first WQS (5*@ Sebastion Inlet FLA) went down this past week and Daniel Jones got equal 17, which is a really good way to start out the year. Daniel was stoked and he's decided he'll continue to grow his hawaiian mullet.





Evan Slater is an official honorary RVCA team rider. He's a bad-ass big wave charger, just made the finals of the Mavericks contest last weekend, and every time I see him he is sporting RVCA shirt. Here is some proof I found at the Surf Expo trade show, he's being interviewed about the new T2 surftech designs.






I didn't know there were Kangaroos in Florida. My hotel roommate and regional team rider Trevor Mathewson fell deeply in love with this cuddly buddy.

NEW AD CAMPAIGN

Check it out!!! This is how our new ads are going to look, pretty fresh huh..

Christian sighting in Bali

I got an email from our RVCA Bali correspondent Thai Little, apparently Christian has been running around with his son Greyson skating and surfing up a storm. Christian has fit into the Bali mix perfectly, everyone is always stoked to have him around and he's been adopted as one of the boys. If you can't tell by Rob Machado's face, he was really surprised to see him down there and Taylor Steele is even considering him for the final section of his next movie. Well, when I get more updates, I'll post some more photos.





Christian, Ratu, Rob Machado, Taylor Steele and Marlon Gerber.




Marlon Gerber and Rizal with the bali boys, Christian's head in the bottom.
On the far left you can see Thai Little's profile.

Go Seabiscuit!!!

Casey Brown is in Narabeen competing in the World Juniors, which started today. He made his first heat and moves on to the second round where he will do man on man competition. So check it out on ASP.com where you can link in to watch it live. Australia is 18 hours ahead, so it is in the future. It is 10:00am here but 5:00am there, so that means Casey will surf later today for tomorrows competition. GO CASEY GO!!!

Heat 10: Casey Brown (HAW) vs Kento Takahashi (JPN)

BIG WAVES ARE FOR RUSSELL SMITH

Russell Smith has been nominated for the biggest wave of the year award, which is pretty big... It all went down December 4th at Ghost Trees in Carmel, CA. The waves were around 50-60ft, as quoted by Russell, "It was pretty f*cking heavy. I surfed all day without eating anything, it was insane!" Stay tuned and check out the site below where you can see Russell's amazing wave.

http://www.billabongxxl.com/biggest_wave/index.html