Jared and Jonathan are twin brothers who have rediscovered instrumental jazz from the 60’s and mixed it with modern influences to earn a following from around the world. With a combination of looped guitar and drums, their simple, piercing music was the backbone of Thomas Campbell's "The Present" and...

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Carlos Santana is an unlikely young addition to the surf photographer scene. Growing up miles from the beach in a Mexican American enclave in Southern California near Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm, Carlos wasn't brought up at the beach. "I didn’t see the ocean till I was about 7 years old and the...

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Jeff Yokoyama is a twenty-five year veteran designer and creative entrepreneur who has spent his entire career dreaming up and creating youth-focused clothing brands. In 1980, he created Maui & Sons and began selling it directly to local surfers and kids on beaches and in schools, changing the rules of...

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Twenty-five year old Hawaiian local Teva Dexter shares his insights into growing up in one of the outer islands as well as what surfing has taught him about balancing his surfing dreams with life in general. As a young underground Hawaiian surfer, Teva has developed a raw, powerful style that compliments a...

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For those who know him, Bird Huffman has become synonymous with surf culture and the surfboard in San Diego. Growing up on the beaches of La Jolla, Pacific Beach, and Sunset Cliffs, Bird's knowledge and connections to the legends in the southern San Diego area like Skip Frye, Steve Lis, Bill Caster, and...

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This short by Korduroy contributor Michael Sander shows the winter surfing exploits of Mike Stanek, a stoked local surfer in New Hampshire who's been known to surf all day in the cold. Watch this episode of Innerviews to see Mike shredding along the overlooked points and reefs of Northeast in chilly...

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Johnny Abegg is a surfer who after chasing the dream for 3 years on the QS, has translated his dynamic surfing style into the realm of filmmaking. With quite a few projects under his belt including his films Untitled, Two Weeks and On Credit, Johnny’s emersed in the freelancer’s life- living on...

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A pro snowboarder living in Salt Lake City, Forrest is originally a surfer from Southern California whose proclivity towards exploring new frontiers has led him to embrace “splitboarding,” a type of snowboard that splits apart and allows for deep exploration into snowy terrain free of lifts and...

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Andrew Kidman is perhaps surfing's greatest Renaissance man. Wikipedia defines this as "a person whose expertise spans a significant number of different subject areas." With his skills in music, writing, painting, photography, surfboard shaping and filmmaking, Kidman is perhaps our greatest inspiration...

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Holly Beck began surfing at the age of 15 and never looked back. With an NSSA title under her belt and years of traveling on the WQS as one of the top surfers in the world, Holly has hung up the contest jersey for a more simple and purposeful life. Setting up shop in Central America on a remote piece of...

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Christian Beamish is a well-educated California waterman who's devoted himself to many of surfing's classical disciplines. While many of his Orange County contemporaries are in cubicles, Christian's taking his hand-built 18 footer for a sail or unearthing old templates and sculpting them into newly...

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Ryan Heywood grew up on Australia’s NSW Central Coast. It was in this historically rich surf environment where his infatuation with nature and the ocean spawned. His forays into photography were founded in high school where a natural ability to burn beautiful moments to film formed. At 20 he started...

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When the rare California summer swell roars across the pacific, there's only a handful of surfers who consistently charge the resulting waves of consequence. Jojo Roper is one of these surfers. Jojo's father, Joe Roper is a San Diego legend who spent decades dividing his time between fixing dings at his...

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Honing his chops on the long perfect points of Noosa Heads, Australia, Matt has become one of the world's best underground loggers. In this episode of Korduroy's InnerViews, we take a look at Matt's life down under.

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We stumbled upon Shane doing ding repair in Bylesy's used surfboard shop outside Byron Bay. After defeating Kelly Slater at the Coke Classic at Narrabeen in 1992, Shane Herring was proclaimed the greatest Australian surfer since Michael Peterson. But cover shots, a six-figure salary and endless parties...

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Experiencing the North Shore of Oahu for the first time was all Derek Dunfee needed to spur his quest for bigger waves. He has since committed himself by training hard, maintaining a positive attitude and putting himself on the line whenever the swell models blink brightest. Now Derek is a world-renowned...

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While her husband Wayne Lynch has traversed the decades creating art in a watery medium, Lindy has quietly beautified her surroundings as well with art made from found, man-made objects destined for a landfill. In this episode of InnerViews, we stroll through Lindy's home studios in the woody Victorian...

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This Santa Barbara up-and-comer's diverse wave riding skills are indicative of a new generation of well-rounded wave riders, comfortable expressing themselves artistically in a variety of mediums and surfing well on all kinds of boards. In this episode of InnerViews, Trevor shreds his favorite Fletcher...

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Puerto Escondido legend Carlos "Coco" Nogales shares his insights on the wave that has been a key component for his a career in professional surfing. After rising from being a street kid in Oaxaca into the forefront of Mexican surfing, Coco has found a way to give back by developing the Coco Nogales Surf...

Hawaiian surf star, Danny Fuller, sheds some light on his moon-scape photography and his upcoming photo show in Los Angeles. Learn new insight into Danny's vision and perspective, while hanging on the beach in Mexico with Derek Dunfee.

For show info and more of Danny Fuller's photography, visit: ...

Erik Hjermstad of Del Mar Water Housings, spends some time exploring his passion for sustainability, managing resources, and underwater surf photography, as well as building the most innovative water housings to capture the surf and other action sports.

For more info: delmarhousings.com

Grain Surfboards in Maine have helped well over a thousand people feel the satisfaction that comes with surfing a board built with your own two hands. Building boards of locally grown sustainable-yield, northern white cedar since 2005, Mike LaVecchia and Brad Anderson have used their skills from previous...

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At 24 years old, Ryan Lovelace has already carved a niche for himself in the world of experimental surf craft. Melding outlines and rocker profiles from bygone eras with new materials and foils, Ryan and his young crew of Santa Barbara locals are exploring subtler ways to ride their flawless waves.

Ryan's...

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We've always seen Christine out in the water logging some serious water time. Upon being invited to her place to film an All Yew we were immediately blown away by all of her other projects. Here's a sampling of some of Christine's work.. Look for her All Yew Paipo episode coming out soon too.

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Ty Williams is one of the top young artists out there with a diverse repertoire of art skills ranging from mixed media, collages, and silkscreening to photographs, illustatrations and painting. As a surfer growing up in the Northeast (Maine and now spending time in New York), the aquatic influence is...

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Snowboard legend Dave Downing grew up as a surfer in Manhattan Beach, CA. With aspirations to become a pro surfer, things changed with an introduction to snowboarding. After just two years of riding, he went pro and the legend began. 

Get your board tuned up for the winter by learning how to wax your...

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Co-founder of the infamous bi-monthly publication, The Surfer's Journal, Steve honed his water skills during the sixties as lifeguard, sailor, and surfboard builder in Orange County, CA. In 1967, Steve began freelance writing for surf magazines, before becoming associate editor at Petersen’s...

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At just 25 years old, Todd Glaser has already made a big name for himself in the world of surf photography by winning the 2008 Follow the Light Award and nailing a bunch of Surfer Magazine cover shots including last year's photo of the year from a trip he took with Greg and Rusty Long to a secret reef....

In the summer of 2010 these two Canadians rode their bikes 1200 miles from Vancouver Island in Canada to Tijuana, Mexico. They hauled trailers with surfboards, food and minimal camping gear as they searched for waves and good times. Check out this episode of InnerViews on Korduroy.tv for more... 

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Growing up in San Diego, Liz Clark learned a lot about the ocean through sailing and fishing trips with her family before catching her first wave at fifteen. After getting a degree in Environmental Studies at UC Santa Barbara and competing for her school’s surf team, She dreamed of taking her own...

Russell Crotty grew up surfing the frigid waters off Northern California and started sketching out his dream lines on the drawing paper his dad brought home. Some forty years later he's still obsessively drawing waves; his sparse strokes bypassing the typical florid hues and slicing straight into the...

Imagine being paid very well to surf flawless, cylindrical shaped waves and share your experiences via videos and photographs. For Rasta this dream gig is a reality and its afforded him the opportunity to experience and analyze the cause and effect of tuberiding more deeply than your average human. Join...

From being credited as the first to surf Pipeline in 1963, to one of the most extreme proponents of mind-altering substances in the psychedelic seventies, John Peck has always been exploring the boundaries of his existence. In this InnerView, Korduroy.tv takes a brief look at the life and cultivated wisdom...

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Almond Surfboards is gaining worldwide recognition for their crisply classic surfboards and clothing. In this episode of InnerViews, 24 year old Dave Allee shares with us his path to creating his brand and the teamwork that makes it all possible.

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No surfer/shaper has impacted modern surfing more than Simon Anderson. His thruster design has been the go to surf craft for pro competitive surfers for over three decades. From the Al Merrick "Dumpster Diver" in small surf to the fin setup of choice on big wave guns and they are arguably the most...

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Dick Van is a classic shaper and surfer from Australia's Gold Coast. He's been hunting dredging sand bottom tubes since the good old days and has never stop experimenting with surfboard shapes and designs. He's been working refining hollow carbon fiber boards and fin configurations with test pilot Dave...

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Few have contributed as much to the innovation and performance to modern surfing than Reno. Learning the art of shaping in his teens with Hawaiian legend Dick Brewer before working at Lightning Bolt surfboards, he applied his understanding of board design to the big and hollow waves of Oahu. Through the...

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J.P. St. Pierre is man deeply entrenched in the humble art of surfboard building. Learning to glass surfboards at an early age at his parent's factory, JP's taken the family business into new realms with surfysurfy.net and the new Surfy Surfy Surf Shop in Leucadia, CA. Get a glimpse into his life and...

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An anonymous interview with the creator... The Cardiff Kook was originally created in 2007 by Hemet, Calif. resident Matthew Antichevich. Since its erection, the bronzed, limp wristed edifice has been subversively celebrated with all kinds of creative costumes. From crucifixes to jack-o-lantern heads, we...

While most guys his age are either frothing on the cutting edge of thruster performance or groping at surfing's roots cross-steping in beavertails, Burch is taking his own middle path. He's teaching himself piece by piece how surfboards move through the water by shaping and mastering every kind of board...

While on a surf trip in Norway, Cyrus Sutton and Yazzy found a guy living in a bus in the middle of the tundra. They asked him a few questions. Why not?

Shot in the parking lot of Sacred Craft in Ventura, Gerry was just finishing a long weekend of book signing and hanging at the Patagonia booth. In this inner-view he shares some of his motivations for leaving perfect tropical surf and other wise thoughts bred from years of living in close contact with...

Despite only being in his mid twenties, Chris Burkard has already amassed an amazing portfolio of images. In this interview Chris talks art, business and localism. 

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Welcome to Inner Views, a new Korduroy.tv series about interesting people who surf. Mike Sheldrake is an eccentric genius from Orange County has developed a system for making surfboards out of cardboard boxes. He's currently working with Korduroy on a cardboard surf fin and collaborating with Cy on some...

Branden Aroyan is a stylish point surfer who has become well known for his unique water angles and intimate portraits of some of surfing's most elusive characters. This episode of Korduroy's InnerViews explores Branden's quest to inspire and uplift the surfing populace through beautiful images.

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