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Kolohe Andino, backside nosepick, Oceanside

Kolohe Andino caused some damage to his ankle last week. He got excited by Dane Reynolds’ most recent clip on Marine Layer, paddled out at Riviera and went loony on his backhand. After landing in the flats on a full-rotation, he managed a high-ankle sprain and tore ligament in his foot. No bones were broken luckily, but he’s looking at some time outta the water.

Just before that happened, he was surfing Oceanside after returning home from Fiji. Jimmy Wilson was down there shooting and clicked this frame of a large backside nosepick. Jimmy also forecasted for us the coming state of injury in surfing and shared some thoughts on Kolohe’s rookie year: “It hasn’t been the 2012 I’m sure he imagined having so far, but hopefully he isn’t out for too long with the injury. These ankles on pro surfers are getting busted everywhere. It’s something that isn’t going to get less. It’s for sure going to increase with all the crazy airs going down.” Hopefully Jimmy’s wrong about the increase, but we tend to agree.

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Jimmy Wilson

Jimmy Wilson. Jimmicane. Jimbrodamus. Which blows your hair back? Take your pick and strap in, ’cause Jimmy rides bumpy. You want the truth? Jimmy will give you his truths in the blink of an eye and won’t apologise if it stings. Opinions are nothing on their own, so the 26-year-old certainly has the skills to back up. A good photo, for Jimmicane, is ineffable. “You know right when you lay your eyes on it,” he says. One such photo was the image of Kelly Slater’s full-rotation air-reverse during the Quiksilver Pro, New York against Taj Burrow. “It was rewarding to get such a special image with literally hundreds of other lenses shooting the same maneuver. Also the fact that I’m from the East Coast and that was an iconic event and iconic air by the greatest surfer of all time. I feel very fortunate.” And if you ask Jimmy where surf photography’s headed, it’s a simple answer: “iPhones”.

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