Is This the Best Lowers We’ll See All Week?

Click here to watch a raw warm-up session at Lowers, featuring Ethan Ewing, Griffin Colapinto, Caroline Marks, Italo Ferreira, and Molly Picklum.

There’s hardly any innocence in the timing of this new installment of the G Skate Demo Tapes.

As deeply rooted in surfing’s history and community Channel Islands is, there’s an underlying sense of quiet resistance against the watering down and department-store-ization of professional surfing in this edit.

The Gudauskas siblings — Dane, Pat, and Tanner — are joined by tour veteran Lakey Peterson and turn their skatey signature 2 + 1 model up to 11 at the bidirectional cobble-lined peak.

If the forecast didn’t look so dire, this could pose as a rousing teaser for the season finale of this year’s CT, which we heard might take place on September 6, the first day of the waiting period. Watch Stab‘s warm-up day raw session here.

As far as wave quality goes, the 10 men and women contending for a World Title would be so lucky to encounter surf like the Guds got while filming this episode of Demo Tapes — edited by Fun Boys Entertainment Systems, who previously worked on the Australian episode, and scored by Stab‘s preferred muso Rick Snowden, who’s been writing and performing the soundtrack for the entire series.