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Yadin Nicol, frontside spin, France

Ok, ok, this is it from France. But, if we didn’t run this kinda gear, it’d slip into the nether regions, locked away in email archives forever. Yadin Nicol, pictured here, is as exciting as ever to watch. He favours full-rotations (like this one) over air-reverses, which is admirable to begin with, and also has a try-to-stomp-everything attitude, which is very endearing, but also puts him in some situations that aren’t excellent (like when he busted his ankle in Japan, filming for Kai Neville’s Dear Suburbia). By now he’s burned across Europe and is asleep in bed, waiting for first light of the Rip Curl Pro, Portugal in a few hours time. But, before making the haul, he slipped in a last freesurf at La Graviere where he settled this full-rote for the lens of Ryan Miller (and for his own self satisfaction, of course).


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Ryan Miller

Ryan Miller, 33 years old, does not know how to write a bad email. Your pals at Stab have learnt to live vicariously through Miller’s red wine-fuelled letters from the road. His travels take him to some dreamy locales and, in those places, he scores all-time photos: “My favourite photo I’ve shot was of Benny Bourgeois in the Caribbean, with a fisheye. Often I just take photos, but rarely do I get to make one.” In an age of tail-highs and released fins, Ryan still most likes to shoot someone who can lay-down a big backside turn. Namely: Jordy Smith, Dane Reynolds, Gabe Kling, Kekoa Bacalso, Damien Hobgood and Peter Mendia. Like most photogs, Miller misses Scott Aichner’s work. But, as far as contemporary inspiration? “Trying to see things through my daughter’s eyes. It’s wild to think about someone experiencing something totally new on almost a daily basis when, as adults, we rarely get to experience something truly new.”

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