Nate Florence, Backdoor drum machine, Hawaii

The Backdoor beat is still rolling. The unseasonal (but totally not unwelcome) swell that’s been hammering the North Shore has kept coming. Nathan Florence, pictured here, has been deep in the mix, jumping over his back fence and paddling out into trucks like this. “With his brother John-John down for the count (ankle injury!) and Ivan gone on an out of town adventure, it was up to middle bro Nasty Nate to hold down the fort at backdoor, which is just a stone’s-throw from his backyard tree fort,” says Laserwolf, the lensman who scooped this image. “The kid’s an animal. I surfed one of the outer reefs with him last week and now he’s back to this. No living in anyone else’s shadows in this family.”