You really don't see a lot of fresh Kelly footage.

He doesn't have a blog, doesn't release webisodes, doesn't star in Taylor Steele flicks anymore. Yet he travels the world, scoring in every way imaginable. The cameras must be rolling. So where's the pudding?

Quiksilver recently decided to give us a little peak under the red curtain. Here are two new edits of Kelly in Fiji and Mexico.

With his 40th birthday just days away, it appears that Slater is still getting better with age.

The Chosen is an online crew video contest for snowboarders that's run through Facebook where style, creativity, and camaraderie reign supreme. Recently, Nike met up with the Tahoe Chosen crew out of Heavenly California and went behind the scenes to see what it's like to shred at this legendary resort on a day to day basis.

Check it out.


Round 1 of The Chosen is about creating buzz and getting noticed through social hustle. The crew in each country with the most social buzz and ability to capture their style, creativity, and originality will be chosen by Nike to advance on 2/17/12.

Round 2 will open on 2/21/12 and the top country crews and wildcards will battle it for a 14 day period to earn the international vote. The 3 crews with the most votes on 3/5/12 will be chosen by the international community and advance to The Chosen Sessions.

The 3 final crews will be announced on 3/12/12, These crews will be flown to Austria to film an all new edit, documenting their travel, and riding experience during the Nike Chosen Sessions Slopestyle event week. On the final day of the event, the winning crew will be chosen by our Nike athletes to live like a pro.

Head Nike.com/chosen for more info.

You may or may not have heard some murmurs in the last year regarding a certain stretch of Mainland Mexican coastline. The gist of it is this: A once semi-secret series of absolutely epic right sand-points and jetties was thrust into the spotlight by a Rip Curl Search contest. Outsiders invade, pros, photogs, circus. Not bueno. The locals respond by banning pros and filmers/photogs from the area for 2 years or so.

Now what?

Sorry Morocco, looks like you're next.

Morocco and Mexico have a lot of similarities: cheap, hot, desert-y, tan locals, and most importantly- perfect righthand pointbreaks for miles.

Recently there has been a flood of Moroccan clips pouring into my eyelids (here, here, and here) and I think we can expect this to continue for a long time, or at least until those muchachos down South decide we can come back.

Here is another Moroccan gem.



MOROCCO SURF LIFE- VIDEO. from Morocco surf Life on Vimeo.

How do you pluck a happy young Australian lad from his beloved home, and his mates, vegemite, and meat pies?

The answer may not surprise you, as it's the same answer to many of life's difficult conundrums: a girl.

No matter how happy you are with your life, how carefully laid your plans are, add a girl to the equation and buckle up, cuz you may be in for a ride.

For Josh Kerr, that ride took him from the Gold Coast of Australia all the way to San Diego California, where he now resides with wife Nikki and family.

Luckily for Josh, his lady just happens to be from one of the meccas of hi-fi surfing, so I doubt he was bummed to trade those meat pies for mexican food.

Our buddy Matt Kleiner is working with Josh on a new film project, and sent us this clip from their recent escapades...


JOSH KERR // HOME from Matt Kleiner on Vimeo.

There are few places on earth that offer a more drastic contrast from an ice cold river in Munich Germany, than Indonesia's Mentawai Islands. Keep that in mind when you watch this clip from Nike.

Germany's FUS crew was victorious in Nike's first CHOSEN video contest this last summer, after a long battle against other crews from around the globe. As their grand prize the three were whisked away from the cold concrete of Germany to the warm breezes of the Mentawai Islands with the Nike Team for an all-expenses-paid surf trip.

FUS used some incredible camera techniques to create their winning entry, filmed entirely on a river wave in Munich. Nobody, not even Nike, could have expected the winning surf entry to be filmed entirely in fresh water.

Now we get to see how ze Germans fair in the salty stuff. Congrats boys!



Summer Chosen: Winner's Surf Trip with FUS from Nike Surfing on Vimeo.