Sam Hammer, New Jersey Classic, USA

Who doesn’t love the classics? Like, Sam Hammer? A classic New Jersey surfer. And this setting? Classic New Jersey springtime surfing. “He’s a Jersey classic and gets every good wave, in every swell,” says photog Ryan Mack, who floated over the shoulder of this steamtrain, itchy fingered and water-housed camera in hand. “If there’s good waves, he’s on them. This day, he scored this backside bomb and got pretty damn pitted – you can see the size of the tube in the backdrop.”