So Many Ways To Win $10k
Here are a few standout entries to Quik’s King of the Groms thus far.
As its name implies, Quiksilver’s King of the Groms is indeed a youth surf contest.
But it’s not that kind of youth surf contest.
There are no heats. No scores. No reason to try to cram four turns on a medium-sized runner then sprint paddle back out and spend the last six minutes hoping for a set. Sure, lycras can be worn — but only by discretion (we’d never judge someone for tucking some skin away from the Hawaiian sun).
This thing’s all about freesurfing, and the 20-odd entries thus far illustrate the benefits of such an unconstrained format. When you impose very few limitations, you end up sniffing quite the bouquet. Proof?
You can go at it via vortex, like Mananalu Chandler:
Or by flight, like Guilherme Lemos:
Or attack the lip eight times and hope for the best like Thiago Passeri:
All compelling strategies, though we’ll have to see what judges Griffin Colapinto and Kauli Vaast make of them. Curiously, two of the three entries above were filmed exactly where the final will go down. Come February, four kids will stay at the Quik house at Pipe and throw down for a week. Winner gets $10k, and the type of clout that no TikTok trend can bring you.
This year, the entry window is tight — Round 1 closes on January 23. See everything you need to know about entering here.
We’ve got a feeling there’s much more to come. Get busy, kids.
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