Innersection

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...