Jamie O'Brien Photo: gOnzo

Mikey Bruneau Photo: Brent Bielmann

Tiger Doerner, Pipeline Photo: Tai Van Dyke During one of the first major swells at Pipeline so far this season, young local charger Tiger Doerner threw all caution to the wind, pushing himself over the ledge on one of the nastiest Pipe beasts in recent memory.

Tanner Hendrickson Photo: Jason Shibata

Eithan Osbourne Photo: Mike Latronic

Imai Devault Photo: Mike Latronic

Mason Ho and Mikey O’Shaughnessy Photo: Keoki

Billy Kemper Photo:gOnzo

Kaito Kino Photo:gOnzo

Noa Deane Photo: Tai Vandyke

Jackson Bunch Lower Trestles, CA Photo: Andrew Oliver Maui’s Jackson Bunch began his recent trip to California with an afternoon excursion to Lower Trestles and it would be his only session away from the stress and demands of the ISA World Junior Championship in Huntington Beach. For this one afternoon, he was free to be a surf-stoked grom in some epic California surf. From that point, Bunch transformed into a competitive assassin steamrolling through eight days of one of the most gruelling events in all of surfing, to an eventual Gold Medal. This flawless extended front-side nosepick was a clear projection of what was in store, radical surfing done with speed and style rarely seen, the true ingredients of a World Champion.