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Time To Meet The 2017 Young Guns Finalists

From a thousand to eight.

news // Jul 12, 2017
Words by Rick Snowden
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Here’s a list of eight groms, forever in your debt. Thanks to your vote (and that of the celeb judge panel, Mikey Wright, Zeke Lau and Jeremy Flores), they just made it one step closer to taking out this year’s Quiksilver Young Guns and increasing their net worth by $10k.

Go ahead and send your congratulations to:

Dwight Pastrana
Kyuss King
Kade Matson
Sandon Wittaker
Kehu Butler
Justin Becret
Sammy Pupo
Kael Walsh

Our pals at Quik tell us they plan on shipping this hi-fi squad out into the Indonesian wilderness. When they’re not petting tigers, they’ll be popping, hacking and linking it up in the hopes of taking the loot. No doubt the competitive spirit will be fire – you know how hungry the younger gen can get in the water? Stab will be watching from the side lines, sharing what we can from a safe distance, for your entertainment. Keep the lines hot.

 

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