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Aaberg, Denny

Aaberg, Kemp

Abberton, Koby

Abbruzzi, Sid

Abellira, Reno

Abubo, Megan

academia and surfing

Adler, Tom

advertising and surfing

Aeder, Erik

aerial

Aguerre, Fernando

Aichner, Scott

Aikau, Clyde

Aikau, Eddie

Aipa, Ben

air-drop

airbrush

Airshow

Ala Moana

Alabama

alaia board

Alaska

alcohol and surfing

Alexander, Kala

Alexandre, João (Dapin)

Allen, Chuck

Alms, Paige

aloha shirt

Alter, Hobie

Alvarez, Pepe

Ancell, Kevin

Andaman Islands

Andersen, Lisa

Anderson, Craig

Anderson, Simon

Andino, Kolohe

Angel, Jose

angle

Angola

Angourie

Antarctica

Apocalypse Now

Arabian Sea

Aragon, Janice

Arakawa, Eric

Archbold, Matt

Arena, Eduardo

Ashton, Juan

Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP)

Atlantic Ocean

August, Robert

Aurness, Rolf

Auster, Ken

Australia

Avalon, Frankie

Azores

backdoor

backside

backside attack, Pipeline

backwash

bail out

Bain, Rob

Baja California

Baker, Bernie

Baker, Grant “Twiggy”

Baker, Tim

Bali

Ball, John “Doc”

Ballard, Bill

Ballard, Rochelle

balsa

Baltic Sea

Banks, Jim

Barbados

Barilotti, Steve

Barland, Michel

Barreda, Sergio “Gordo”

Barry, Michael

Bartholomew, Wayne

Baxter, Jackie

Bay of Bengal

Beach Boys, The

Beacham, Debbie

beachboys

beachbreak

Beachcomber Bills Grand Prix

Beachley, Layne

beavertail

Becker, Phil

Bedford-Brown, Stuart

Belgium

Bells Beach

Bendall, Ma and Pa

Bennett, Barry

Benson, Becky

Benson, Blanche

Benson, Linda

Bermuda

Innovative and semi-controversial surf website in which individual surfers produce their own short video segments and submit them for judging to the viewing public, with the winner taking home a $100,000 prize. The top vote-getting sections are then stitched together into a Steele-distributed feature length DVD.

Touted as "surfing's own YouTube with a dash of American Idol," Innersection launched in 2010 as a collaboration between surf writer Nathan Myers and video kingpin Taylor Steele. It was initially thought that the site would be a new media platform for established pros, but most ignored the project or were suspicious of the competitor-produced format. (Kelly Slater was an early exception.) Aussie superstar Julian Wilson told 

 magazine that he "wasn't the biggest fan... I felt like I would be doing all this work while Taylor would just sit there, raking in the benefit." Surfer magazine, however, called Innersection "revolutionary," and predicted it would "facilitate the the next wave of progressive surfing on video."

Innersection has been mostly ruled by young, creative, air-happy, semi-underground surfers: honors for the 2010 contest went to an unknown 21-year-old Hawaiian pro named Matt Meola; Albee Layer, another little-known pro, also from Hawaii, took home the $100,000 prize in 2011. As of 2013, Kelly Slater, Jamie O'Brien, Dave Rastovich, Ozzie Wright, and Craig Anderson were among the hundreds of surfers who have starred in Innersection clips.

, an Innersection side project, in which section from around the world were all filmed in a single day, was released in 2012. 

, a simliar effort, also came out in 2012.

In 2012, Innersection awarded prize money to six fimmakers, each of whom contributed to the 2013 film 

Innersection

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