Clips of the Day: Toledo, Ho, and Kerr

In case you don't know who Felipe Toledo is, you'll know after watching this clip. He basically throws free surfs into his heats on the World Championship Tour. Once he starts figuring out heat strategy and puts some weight into his turns in real surf like Teahupoo, he could be the 1st Brazilian world champ- him or Gabriel Medina of course. Oh sure Adriano DeSouza is in 1st place in the ratings right now but Kelly, Parko, Mick, and heck- even Jordy finally- will catch him this year. So until then, enjoy this one wave, 10 point ride, during the Billabong Pro Rio from Felipe.

One of my all-time favorites here: Mason Ho. If you're a reader of the North County Surf blog, then you've run across various clips of Mason over the years (like this one that's not even a real wave but Mason somehow makes it look fun). Today's clip of Mason takes him all over the place- like Waimea shorebreak and a wave that I grew up on- the Wedge. Mason shows the kids that there's more to surfing that just air reverses in 2' slop- there's all kinds of interesting waves out there to get loopy on.

And small high performance shortboards have been all the rage the past couple years. Dane Reynolds of course helped bring them to the limelight with the Dumpster Diver and Neckbeard and most shapers now have a dumpy fat little shortboard in their range. Rusty's got the 'Neil' with a diamond tail (catchy, huh?) and local transplant Josh Kerr puts it through it's paces in some gutless tiny surf. Basically he makes it look like he's surfing 6' lowers on a normal 6'2" shortboard.