Surfing
Watch Kolohe Andino’s freesurfing fire
One of the world’s most talented contest junkies sheds the jersey and blows up in Mexico.
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Kolohe Andino heats up Mexico
Between heats, Kolohe Andino goes south of the border for a memorable free surf trip.
It's possible that Kolohe Andino was born wearing a contest jersey. As the son of Southern California '80s ripper and world tour competitor Dino Andino, Kolohe was groomed to surf both as radically as possibly and as competitively as possible.
It's always a little electrifying when we get a whole edit of Andino freesurfing, though. This brilliant one is from filmer Shane Fletcher, who tailed Andino on a trip to Mexico last year, and it's packed with some incredible footwork, courtesy of your current number four surfer in the world, and some wholesome garage punk, courtesy of The Rooms.
Kolohe Andino, power with speed and dance
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When the jersey's off, you're always gonna go bigger – and in his early years on tour, Andino prescribed to that norm. But things have changed in the last two years. More and more, he's been going for broke, contest or no contest, and the transition has only made him better. Consider this fiery edit a taste of what the nearly 23-year-old California prodigy is about to bring to the 2017 tour.
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