The 41st Annual Surfer Poll awards will take over the Turtle Bay Resort on the North Shore for the second year in a row on Dec. 6th, 2011. The prestigious awards will be judged by a panel comprised of SURFER staff and experts in the realm of surf filmmaking.

Here are the 2011 nominees. Who would you pick? Head to Surfer Magazine and let them know how you feel.

Best Barrel
John John Florence (Get-N-Classic)
Alex Gray (Teahupoo Uncut)
Josh Kerr (Kerrazy Kronicles)
Cory Lopez (Teahupoo Uncut)
Dean Morrison (A Dingo's Tale)


Worst Wipeout
Kohl Christensen (Surprise Excitement Party)
Evan Faulks (Surprise Excitement Party)
Nathan Fletcher (Teahupoo Uncut)
Mark Healey (Surprise Excitement Party)
Rodrigo Koxa (Teahupoo Uncut)


Best Digital Short
Africa
Another Day in the Life of Wayne Lynch
Lost Interest
Uncommon Ideals
Seven Ghosts: Tidal Fantasy
Andy's Swell


Heavy Water
Dean Morrison
Nathan Fletcher
Laurie Towner
Bruce Irons
Mark Healey


Best Cinematography
Come Hell or High Water
Float: Archipelago
Lost Atlas
Sight / Sound
Year Zero


Andy Irons Best Performance Award
John John Florence (Get-N-Classic)
CJ Hobgood (Year Zero)
Josh Kerr (Kerrazy Kronicles)
Carissa Moore (Leave A Message)
Dean Morrison (A Dingo's Tale)
Yadin Nicol (Year Zero)
Dusty Payne (Lost Atlas)



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Best Documentary
Splinters
Lost and Found
White Wash
Minds In The Water


Movie of the Year
Lost Atlas
Year Zero
Kerrazy Kronicles
Get-N-Classic
Come Hell or High Water


LOST ATLAS - TRAILER from Kai Neville Studio on Vimeo.

Check back for predictions from each category.

One wave, four covers, countless video views, and with the Billabong XXL awards upcoming, this beast might be the gift that keeps on giving for Nate Fletcher, and I'm not talking about the herp.

This Teahupoo monster, of all the mutated monsters that were attempted that day, was the gruesome prom queen.

A handful of Surfing's greatest rides have ended in torment, and this is one of them.

This wipeout ranks up among Jay Moriarity's iron cross, Flea's Waimea base jump, or Mark Mathews' Shipsterns aquatic avalanche. One could even argue that this wave stands alone at the top of the eating-shit podium.

Here Nathan sits down with Surfer Magazine to tell the tale..

The good folks over at Vans have just dropped the trailer for their first ever surf film Get-N-Classic Volume 1. The accomplices are as follows: Joel Tudor, Nathan Fletcher, Pat, Tanner and Dane Gudauskas, John, Ivan and Nathan Florence, Dylan Graves, Alex Knost, Andrew Doheny, Kalani Chapman and Jason "Ratboy" Collins. The trailer is pretty amazing, can't wait to see the whole enchilada. It's gonna be available for download August 8th.

Your good friends over at Analog have done something incredible, folks. They've captured Nathan Fletcher. I don't mean 'captured' in the 'episode of COPS' sense, but the other way. The 'on film' way. Im actually not sure which method of capture would be harder, when you're talking about Nate Fletcher. He's an elusive dude, to say the least. It must have been a nightmare to track him down and film his Hunter S. Thompson-esque surf adventures. I'd imagine that a tiger trap would be your best bet for successful capture. You know, dig a large pit, cover it in leaves, and wait for prey to fall in. Speaking from experience, camouflaging the trap is argueably the most important element of the plan, especially when you just dug a hole in Megan Fox's front lawn. Dead leaves work well, but be creative and use your surroundings. The second most important element is the bait. Once again speaking from experience, the odds of this person/wild animal just happening to walk into your carefully laid trap are usually quite slim. Bait is a good idea, unless you have a couple days to kill, and really enjoy sitting in trees. A torn up restraining order soaked in tears seems to make the best bait, in my experiences. Which brings me to my next... wait.... uhh.. what are we talking about again? Oh yeah. The Analog movie.The movie is so f*cking sick. It opens with Nate getting clipped at backdoor, then taking a bomber set on the head. Having grown up in Hawaii, i can honestly say i've never been more terrified while surfing, than getting caught inside at backdoor. Its so shallow, there's no channel, bombs from OTW double up and just rape the hell out of you. I'd rather call Kala a sissy, to his face, than get cleaned out at backdoor again. Actually, nevermind, i take that back. Anywhooo, there are some crazy punts and gaping pits that you'd expect from Nate, and its all shot and edited together very well. The music is dope. In fact, just watch it. Here's chapter 1. More to come...
(go to analogclothing.com to download it yourself)

Since Nate broke his femur the other day, why don't you go check out an interview Stab Mag did with him pre-leg snap. See what one of the most innovative and original surfers in the world has to say. Get well Nate!

Or, you could just check out an interview I did with him by clicking here. Or, you could check out my interview then check out their interview. You know what? Fuck that, check out theirs, then check out mine, that way you end with and stay on my shit. Now come back you here, they have boobs and shit over there, so don't get distracted.