Ventura's own blue-collar hero Nick Rozsa and filmer Chris Papaleo have been working on a mini-series of rip clips called HOMEGROWN as of late.

Nick enjoyed a fruitful amateur career riding for Reef and trotting the globe, but like many rippers of our generation, the economy and various hiccups have forced Nick underground. Now surfing is his hobby, and being a hard-working family man comes first. Still, Nick finds the time to go ballistic on his home turf, as evidenced below.

In a time when heli-cams and fog machines are becoming the norm, it's refreshing to see something produced without the corporate hand holding the camera. You won't find any product placement here, folks. Nick's surfing is as sharp as ever, and the editing/music is superb. Coming in at over 6 minutes, you may need to pop some ritalin if you're used to the 2 minute surf clips flooding the internets, this one is worth your time.

This chapter 1 of 5. Enjoy.

Rozsa Homegrown from Papaleo on Vimeo.

Taj Burrow has claimed the Reef Hawaiian Pro over Adam Melling, Adriano De Souza, and Nat Young.

Ross Williams also celebrated a victory today, the legends expression session over Shane Dorian, Kalani Robb and Robert Machado.

Taj's win puts him in the pole position for the Triple Crown, and gives the aussie a fair bit of momentum going into Sunset and Pipeline.

Ross's win reminds us how absolutely incredible Kelly Slater is. I mean the guy's best friends are in the legends heat, and he just clinched his reigning eleventh worltd title. Easily. That's absurd.

Taj was on fire all day, threading tubes and scalping come-from behind wins in the windy conditions. Haleiwa wasn't an easy woman to handle today, making many a surfer look awfully foolish at times. By day's end there was quite the highlight reel of toilet bowl-wipeouts being looped on the webcast.

With this being the last day of the waiting period, the second jewel of the Triple Crown at Sunset Beach commences Friday. With a large swell forecasted, look for that to get underway very soon.

FINALS
Taj Burrow (AUS) 16.90pts ; Adam Melling (AUS) 12.12.60pts ; Adriano De Souza (BRA) 12.50 pts ; Nat Young (USA) 6.10 pts

SEMIFINALS
Heat 1: Taj Burrow (AUS) 14.84pts ; Nat Young (USA) 12.70pts ; John John Florence (HAW) 11.50pts ; Kekoa Bacalso (HAW) 10.67pts
Heat 2: Adriano De Souza (BRA) 13.54pts ; Adam Melling (AUS) 13.16pts ; Michel Bourez (PYF) 12.30pts ; Roy Powers (HAW) 4.57pts

QUATERFINALS
Heat 1: Taj Burrow (AUS) 16.10pts ; Kekoa Bacalso (HAW) 15.60pts ; Evan Geiselman (USA) 15.00pts ; Kolohe Andino (HAW) 6.90pts
Heat 2: Nat Young (USA) 17.77pts ; John John Florence (HAW) 14.27pts ; Kieren Perrow (AUS) 5.50pts ; Glen Hall (IRL) 5.20pts
Heat 3: Michel Bourez (PYF) 13.50pts ; Adriano De Souza (BRA) 12.30pts ; Tanner Gudauskas (USA) 12.20 pts ; Jesse Mendes (BRA) 9.17pts
Heat 4: Roy Powers (HAW) 15.00pts ; Adam Melling (AUS) 9.90pts ; Brett Simpson (USA) 7.33pts ; Granger Larsen (HAW) 6.83pts

Round of 32
Heat 1: Evan Geiselman (USA)11.33pts ; Kieren Perrow (AUS)10.73pts ; Hodei Collazo (EUK) 6.84pts ; Maxime Huscenot (FRA) 2.90pts
Heat 2: Kolohe Andino (HAW) 11.84pts ; Nat Young (USA) 9.70pts ; Adrien Toyon (REU)9.27pts ; Ezekiel Lau (HAW) 9.13pts
Heat 3: Glenn Hall (IRL) 15.43pts ; Kekoa Bacalso (HAW) 14.37pts ; Sebastien Zietz (HAW) 10.34pts ; Leonardo Neves (BRA)10.00pts
Heat 4: John John Florence (HAW) 16.27pts ; Taj Burrow (AUS) 15.26pts ; Thiago Camarao 7.77pts (BRA) ; Daniel Ross (AUS) 7.70pts
Heat 5: Adriano De Souza (BRA) 12.67pts ; Brett Simpson (USA) 12.34pts ; Dusty Payne (HAW) 9.60pts ; Adrian Buchan (AUS) 9.30pts
Heat 6: Tanner Gudauskas (USA) 11.19pts ; Adam Melling (AUS) 10.73pts ; Dion Atkinson (AUS) 8.83pts ; Adam Robertson (AUS) 8.50pts
Heat 7: Roy Powers (HAW) 9.94pts ; Michel Bourez (PYF) 9.50pts ; Jadson Andre (BRA) 8.57pts ; Marc Lacomare (FRA) 5.83pts
Heat 8: Granger Larsen (HAW) 14.60pts ; Jesse Mendes (BRA) 12.60pts ; Nathaniel Curran (USA) 10.84pts ; Aritz Aramburu (EUK) 7.93pts

CLASH of the LEGENDS
Heat 2 : Ross Williams (HAW) 14.50pts ; Shane Dorian (HAW) 14.44 pts ; Rob Machado (USA) 10.83pts ; Kalani Robb (HAW) 8.27pts

No words necessary for this post...just watch.

Here are 2 new episodes of Reef's SALTY SUMMERS film-isodes. The first of the 2 chapters follows the team to the Phillipines to surf Cloud 9 and take photos of Alana Blanchard looking hot. Sign me up. The second episode follows the boys down to mainland mexico for some dreamy sand points. Yes please.

other episodes here.

A couple weeks back we got to see Reef's first two installments of SALTY SUMMERS, their summertime surf webisodes, where we were treated to the first footage of Ben Bourgeois' secret Carribean Sand Point, as well as some Lava rock sessions over on the Big Island. Here we have episodes 3 and 4 for your viewing pleasure. These 2 chapters are a bit misleading, as they show some WINTER highlights from Hawaii, which is clearly contradicting the title but then again who cares. Shrimpy's bomb at the end of ep 3 is holy shit.