MOMENTS || 2011 QUIKSILVER SURF TEAM

Check this. I'll tell you what, it is so magic out there. Look at that one. It's pretty good down there. Craig Anderson, 21, from Newcastle, Australia. I don't really think about the way I surf. It just feels weird if I do it any other way. You know, I just paddle in and take off and by the time you're on your feet you're not really thinking about anything. You're just doing what comes natural. I describe my style as, I guess, lazy and, I don't know, I just do my own thing. Whatever. Whatever goes. Whatever makes me feel happy when I kick out on a wave. To go free surfing, I just have to have fun and laugh with my friends. When it's contests, you're so focused and you're so worried about doing everything right. Sometimes you kind of lose that having some fun. I love doing cars and I love big bounce. Left, big bounce. I was coming from a small island and sometimes, you know, people were saying that in Europe the level was pretty bad and Europe itself couldn't be doing good. Now I think I've improved a lot already for my age. So now it's just a bonus. I'm working a lot on improving my surf to get the best I can get. The 2010 Pipeline Masters Champion from France, Jerry Morris! Clay, how would you describe surfing? Describe it? I don't know. What does it look like to you when you watch it? I see you surf sometimes and do this ---- that just looks like crazy. What? Why do you do that? Because I want to try wild things. New Earth stuff. Yeah, sometimes it gets wild out there. Try some wild stuff. That was epic. Everything comes out, maybe. When I'm surfing, everything comes out. What comes out? Just a lot of funness. A lot of thoughts come out. A place like G-Land, a wave like G-Land, it has a certain element and magnetism to it. The jungle. The wave. And position on the planet. The G-Land Think about it. We're in G-Land, just sitting here, watching the perfect wave. I know, and we have to count first. Look at it! Look how good it is right now. If we had boards, it would be amazing. Look how boring we are. People are getting shacked out of their minds out there. Here we are on the beach, talking about people getting spit out of barrels. Kelly's getting here on Tuesday, and it's going to be all because... Who's that? I don't... I think he must be a champion. I know that he's like a real coot, but he just wins all the time. Yeah, every time. For some reason, he just has all these sponsors and stickers on his board. It's so sick. Oh, that's a good one. Oh, my, look at this. Let's spit. This is a big set. Kelly Slater. Oh, yeah, Kelly. Kelly Slater. Massive wave got taken out. Pulls it up, Kelly Slater. Kelly Slater. You know, I never set out to win ten world titles. There's nothing I'd rather do than surf. You know, when I was a kid, I was a lot louder, and I don't know, I didn't have the reservations I probably have now in front of people. I've kind of always liked performing in front of people, I guess, you know? Like, competition has always sort of provided that. When I was a kid, I wanted to be a comedian. Surfing's my stage, I guess, you know? I don't want to miss any good swells. That's been my goal, to put this tent away so I can just follow hurricanes and big storms and big swells and surf perfection around the world. Chasing swells, I'm on an adrenaline high the whole time. I know it's going to be big in the morning. I'll just be up till 1, 2, 3 in the morning getting my boards together, and there's no feeling like that in the world for me. There's nothing that matches that. Sometimes I get that excited when the waves are one foot. I don't know, nothing beats when you're happy. Nothing's better than when you're happy. So for me, surfing when I'm happy is probably the best. I've always thought that surfing's a reflection of who you are. Your personality definitely comes out when you surf. To me, I want my surfing to be a mash of everything I've ever seen. So that's how I hope it is.