Sage Erickson

EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO ASK A SURFER!

The 2024 J-Bay Classic was a WSL event like no other. American charger Izzi Gomez and Kiwi freesurfer and funny man Mackenzie Bowden were deployed to South Africa to get up close and personal with the incredible field of talent hanging in the Red Bull Athlete Zone, and pepper everyone from 1999 and 2015 World Champions Mark Occhilupo and Adriano de Souza to superstar freesurfer Mikey February and eventual winner Frederico Morais with all the questions you’ve ever wanted answered, to find out just how much surfers actually know about surfing. The results? A whole lot of laughs.

Whether sharing their thoughts from a hot tub, mid-massage, or fresh out of the water, Steph Gilmore, Sage Erickson, Josh Kerr, Matt Wilkinson, Coco Ho and a fleet of South African talent spill the beans on their greatest surfing icks as well as plenty of crazy hypotheticals and surfing trivia, all sprinkled with a healthy dose of action from the event.

From which animal they think they are to their least favourite surfers and who they’d steal moves off, the difference between ’now’, ’now now’ and ‘just now’, when Kelly Slater is actually ever going to retire, and finding out who exactly J-Bay is named after, Izzi and Mackenzie capture surfing’s finest at their most candid. Don’t just take our word for it though, get comfortable and hit play now to soak up all of the action. Enjoy!

Learn Surf Lingo from the Pros // 2023 Nissan Super Girl Surf Pro powered by Celsius

A huge part of surf culture is the terminology that the athletes use. We ran through some of the most popular surf terms with pros like Sage Erickson, Caity Simmers and Zoe Benedetto at the 2023 Nissan Super Girl Surf Pro powered by Celsius in Oceanside, CA.

Pipeline is the top surfing proving ground, but are helmets now required? | NO CONTEST Hawai'i 2021

In Part 2 of our 2-part No Contest Hawai'i Special, you'll meet Pipeline's newest crop of (helmeted) chargers, pay tribute to the legendary Uncle Derek Ho, and watch the ladies — especially Tyler Wright and Carissa Moore — make history at Pipe.

Discover Life Inside The World Surfing Tour Bubble | NO CONTEST Hawai'i 2021

Watch Part 1 of our 2-part No Contest Hawai'i Special. You'll get a backstage pass to the strangest Hawai'ian winter in pro surfing history while spending a day with Volcom House legend Tai Van Dyke as he indulges his latest hobby to a lesson on localism with Jack Robinson.

Filipe Toledo Takes Out The GOAT Kelly Slater at His Own Pool! Rumble at the Ranch HEAT HIGHLIGHTS

Filipe Toledo & Coco Ho battle it out with Kelly Slater & Sage Erickson at the Rumble at the Ranch! Watch the full event replay - https://youtu.be/ATtb9BhBny

For More Check Out:
Kelly's Slater's BEST EVER WAVE at the Ranch?!! Rumble at the Ranch Quarterfinal HEAT HIGHLIGHTS - https://youtu.be/XEr3QTvQDGQ

THE BEST OF CARISSA MOORE!! This is Why She Won Four World Titles - WSL Highlights - https://youtu.be/v8_DSBu1geE

Take The First Look At Surfing's Return As Teams Prepare To Rumble!! w/ Kelly Slater, Kanoa Igarashi - https://youtu.be/wEF-rXU27e8

All the Best Surfing 2019 Freshwater Pro ft Gabriel Medina, Kelly Slater, Carissa Moore, Jordy Smith - https://youtu.be/-PayrdtHKf

THE BEST OF THE BEST IN SLATER'S POOL!!!! 2018 Surf Ranch Pro Highlights ft Medina, Toledo, Carissa - https://youtu.be/BPqzV6Ghmoo#WSL

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Kelly's Slater's BEST EVER WAVE at the Ranch?!! Rumble at the Ranch Quarterfinal HEAT HIGHLIGHTS

At 1:37 check what some are saying is Kelly Slater's best wave ever at the Surf Ranch. Watch the heat highlights from the quarterfinal matchup between Kelly Slater / Sage Erickson and Carissa Moore / Seth Moniz. Between these two teams, their are 15 World titles!!!! Watch the full event replay - https://youtu.be/ATtb9BhBny

For More Check Out:
THE BEST OF CARISSA MOORE!! This is Why She Won Four World Titles - WSL Highlights - https://youtu.be/v8_DSBu1geE

Take The First Look At Surfing's Return As Teams Prepare To Rumble!! w/ Kelly Slater, Kanoa Igarashi - https://youtu.be/wEF-rXU27e8

All the Best Surfing 2019 Freshwater Pro ft Gabriel Medina, Kelly Slater, Carissa Moore, Jordy Smith - https://youtu.be/-PayrdtHKf

THE BEST OF THE BEST IN SLATER'S POOL!!!! 2018 Surf Ranch Pro Highlights ft Medina, Toledo, Carissa - https://youtu.be/BPqzV6Ghmoo

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Take The First Look At Surfing's Return As Teams Prepare To Rumble!! w/ Kelly Slater, Kanoa Igarashi

Watch the practice session for the Michelob Ultra Pure Gold Rumble at the Ranch in this one of a kind night session. Featuring surfing from Kelly Slater, Sage Erickson, Carissa Moore, Seth Moniz, Filipe Toledo, Kolohe Andino, Kanoa Igarashi, Caroline Marks and Griffin Colapinto.

**Watch live on YouTube Aug 9 at 3pm ET / 12pm PT - https://youtu.be/ATtb9BhBnyY **

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What's It Really Like Behind The Scenes At The Surf Ranch? | People Watching

It's strange. It's polarizing. It's freshwater. But deep down inside, every surfer would love to have a crack at the green lines of Kelly Slater's Surf Ranch. But what do the pros think? Well, wonder no more — in this episode of People Watching, we step behind the lines with the World Tour elite during the Freshwater Pro. You don't want to miss this one.

CI Mid: Britt Merrick Breakdown

Over the past few months, the CI Mid has garnered more buzz than just about any other surfboard in 2020. Ok, maybe the FishBeard actually has, but this Mid is a close second! In this new video, we wanted to share a bit more info and visuals behind the inspiration for this egg-inspired model, as well as added insights on what you can expect from its ride.

"At Channel Islands, everything we do is performance oriented,” explains Lead Shaper and Designer Britt Merrick. "We’re not satisfied with just making boards that go straight and fast. We want speed, flow and glide in that feeling we’re all after—but you've got to be able to do the turns that you want to, and you've got to be able to do your best surfing. So that’s the philosophy that we took into our CI Mid project.”

“One of the cool things we have at CI, having been around for 50 years, is this incredible design library of templates and history, and rockers and all the things that go into making a board,” adds Britt. "In the ’70s, my dad had a board called the Huevo Caliente, which was this really beautiful looking midlength, egg sort of board. We'd been looking at pictures of that around the factory, and felt pretty inspired by that so we dipped back into the archives, and pulled out some of those old templates to accomplish those curves that created the CI Mid. We also updated the bottom so that it performs like a modern board but still has that classic feel and vibe that my dad created so long ago."

The CI Mid is a modern classic design resulting from a fun collaboration with Devon Howard, a southern California surfer that has spent the past two decades riding and refining egg-inspired designs that are in a category of boards many refer to as midlengths. "I wanted to work on a board that blended all of the different characteristics of these type of boards into one,” explains Howard. “Although the CI Mid was inspired by the clean, longer-railed lines drawn by traditional eggs and single-fins like Al’s mid-1970s Huevo Caliente, it offers an improved crispness, sensitivity, and freedom made possible by his modern rails, rocker and bottom contours that earned him a rep as one of the greatest shapers of all time. ”

Boasting a sleek, egg-like template with low entry rocker and foam a tad forward for ease of paddle and effortless trim speed, the CI Mid scoots, squirts and swivels thanks to contemporary features like double-barrel concave, gradually accelerated rocker, and hard, slightly tucked rails through and off the tail. Britt adds: "The CI Mid is a long-railed board that has all that speed and glide you need to draw those high lines and get that flying feeling you’re after, but you can still really turn down the face and up it, and surf the board well."

A reliable all-arounder that flies over the flatter, smaller stuff, the CI Mid shines best in shoulder-high to nearly double overhead point surf—where surfers are able to lay down flowy, arcing turns with total confidence, speed, and control.

The CI Mid’s minimalist logo is also out of the Channel Islands Archives—a lam Al put on his boards in the early ’70s—and all CI Mids are stocked with high quality, colorful resin craftsmanship (6-4oz. decks with 6oz. bottoms).

Fins can make or break any surfboard. For the CI Mid, we again worked closely Devon and our friends at True Ames Fins to custom build a 2 + 1 fin set that enhances our the board's high-performance characteristics, as well as helping it be versatile in a wide range of conditions with just a simple adjustment of the center fin.

The Tour Takes Over Lemoore And Kelly's Wave, Then Hit Trestles For Old Times' Sake | No Contest Ep8

Small town Lemoore, California is the least likely venue for a WSL Championship Tour event, but a handful of years ago the thought of a wave pool appearing in surfing’s major league wouldn’t have been considered likely either. Fast forward to today and sure enough Kelly Slater's Surf Ranch is hosting surfing’s elite. For the tub’s sophomore showing, Ashton and the No Contest crew headed inland to take the temperature of surfing’s wacky new world at the 2019 Freshwater Pro.