What better way to cruise the streets, beach, trails; then to have the soundtrack to your life blastin in your ears.
Pro Surfer Mick Fanning collabs with Rip Curl and Skullcandy to create the ultimate hoodie, to do just that.

Video below is Fanning filmed in NYC showin off the goods.

Available at limited specialty retailers nationwide.

For more information go here www.ripcurl.com/fanningcollab and here www.skullcandy.com/fanningcollab

Costa Mesa, CA-(November 9, 2011): Rip Curl and Skullcandy teamed up to rally around mutual team rider and 2x ASP World Champion, Mick Fanning, to launch the first Signature Audio-Enabled Hoodie, boasting two removable speakers in the hood. The hoodie, designed and developed from start to finish with Mick's input, is a lightweight fleece with an MP3 player pocket plug-in, and is a true reflection of Mick's taste.

"Being able to work with my different sponsors to collaborate around a unique product to the market has been really exciting," Fanning said regarding the collaboration. "I hope people dig the hoodie and dial in a good soundtrack for while they wear it!"

The campaign was shot on location in New York City by Steve Sherman this past September amidst the packet streets near Times Square. The video and full photo gallery can be viewed on the product website: www.ripcurl.com/fanningcollab

*Embarrassing update.. due to an ASP MATH ERROR Kelly isn't ke11y yet.. He has to win one more heat.. and will get two chances to do so, as he is into the 3-man no loser round 4, pitted against the Brazilian duo of Miguel Pupo and Gabe Medina. You can bet Slater hopes for triple overhead shacks at Ocean Beach...

After the excitement and emotion of yesterday, a day off is just what the doctor ordered for the top 32 in San Francisco. The uncharacteristically gorgeous weather, calm blue skies, and perfectly groomed peaks of Wednesday, replaced with gloomy grey and blustery onshores. As Kelly made mention of after his win, yesterday was the best day of weather all year in SF, on a day where wind and clouds were forecasted, almost as if Andy was smiling down on them.

From the drama of Kelly and his quest for 11, to the hi-fi action in 2 rounds of the world's best in pumping surf, to the emotional paddle out for the Late Andy Irons who passed away one year to the date, to the ke11y afterparties that rocked late into the night, the collective surf sphere needs a day to lay on the couch and watch soap operas.

The low pressure system that is currently crop-dusting San Fran with wind and rain will be making its way South in the coming days, making room for better conditions and a handful of swell pulses that could see competition resume this weekend.

In case you were in a cave for the last 24 hours, here's some of what went on..

Rip Curl's yearly Grom Search series has become quite a big deal for young guns around the globe trying to make a career out in the ocean.

In the USA, there are 4 regional events, California, Hawaii, Florida, and North Carolina, followed by the national championships to be held during the Rip Curl Search WCT event, at Ocean Beach in San Francisco in early November.

The last of the 4 regional events went down last weekend on the Outer Banks in NC, check out more photos from Surfing magazine's Daniel Pullen here.

And here are the highlights from the East events in New Smyrna Beach and the Outer Banks, in video form, below...

Padang Padang is a small chunk of reef a couple miles down from Uluwatu, on the tip of Bali's Bukit Peninsula. While not nearly as long as some of the other waves in the area, such as Ulus, Bingin, etc., and notoriously fickle, needing a massive swell to break, Padang has become known as the closest thing Bali has to Pipeline. A handful of Balinese tube-riders and imported Hawaiian Pipeline specialists will wait all season for a big enough swell to light up the reef at Padang. When it's breaking, they are on it.

Rip Curl has taken the Eddie Aikau Invitational approach to holding a contest there.
"It's on when It's on."
32 International invitees and the holding period is over a month during the peak season for Bali, which is right now.

After several 'almost' days of swell, the event finally was a GO over the weekend. Local Lee Wilson took out an epic final, beating Anthony Walsh, Bol, and Mustofa Jeksen. Wilson is actually half Australian, half Balinese, so to win in Bali is a proud day for the young regularfoot.

Our friends over at Rip Curl are bringing their popular Grom Search series back for 2011.

I remember when I was growing up, the older guys would duct tape groms to poles, give them corndogs (rolling one in the sand while wet) while they were trying to change, and many other hilariously abusive pranks.

But nooooo. Now that everyone is too afraid to get sued, groms get their own world tour.

Im not bitter or anything, but groms these days have it pretty sweet. Between facebook, sexting, and now this, I can now see why old guys seem so bitter.

Check out more info like stops and dates here.