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Taj Burrow

It’s the biggest surfing event mainland America’s got and with a US $100k purse, the US Open will always bring the names. With the event incorporating pro boy and girl divisions along with the men and women’s, it also a brings a clusterfuck to every beach SoCal over at this time of year. “The Sunday crowd at Lowers is just too much,” says photographer James ‘Jimmicane’ Wilson of the location for this shot. Taj, Bruce, Dusty, Seabass (Sebastian Zietz) the Coffin bros (Conner and Parker) and Yadin Nicol were just some of the pro crowd to take Exit 10 off CA – 73 and head south towards San Diego before turning off and heading for El Camino Real (roughly a 40 minute drive) to get to Lowers for this warm-up session.

full frame // Mar 8, 2016
Words by Jimmy Wilson
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It’s the biggest surfing event mainland America’s got and with a US $100k purse, the US Open will always bring the names. With the event incorporating pro boy and girl divisions along with the men and women’s, it also a brings a clusterfuck to every beach SoCal over at this time of year.

“The Sunday crowd at Lowers is just too much,” says photographer James ‘Jimmicane’ Wilson of the location for this shot.

Taj, Bruce, Dusty, Seabass (Sebastian Zietz) the Coffin bros (Conner and Parker) and Yadin Nicol were just some of the pro crowd to take Exit 10 off CA – 73 and head south towards San Diego before turning off and heading for El Camino Real (roughly a 40 minute drive) to get to Lowers for this warm-up session.

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