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).