Maybe it's the Sonic Youth. Or Chippa and John John going back and forth across the Mentawai skyline like McEnroe and Borg at Wimbledon. Whatever it is, this video revs our engine and has been put on more than a few times to get us psyched and out the door — which is all we're [...]

In 10 days with John John you get a lot of footage — and since it's official now and he won the Airstrike, that seemed like an excuse to show more of it.

We noticed as we were putting this together...it's like a proper messed-up video part circa 2011. Now it's just one man's leftovers [...]

Click play, then read the story behind this piece here:

On Saturday we drove south to link up with Kustom, Tony Hawk, aaaaaand...

John John.

It's John John Florence, he wins the Airstrike. His stalefish rotation got more votes than anything else. Watch it again above, it's messed up.

The challenge was how to deliver [...]

These Airstrike sessions are unreal, and they're just the leftovers.

We've been sifting through all the waves that didn't make the official four-ep series and it's astounding what these guys threw down on that trip. Especially this stuff from Macaronis.

Hey, also: you'd like this piece we put together for the winner.

Here's a little session from the Kustom Airstrike trip that didn't make one of the four official episodes (which are here).

And here's a story from the trip, told to us by Ryan one day:

First remember that the Airstrike winner gets $50,000. But to win, an air has to be voted on by the [...]

The Airstrike series finale is here with a Sonic Youth soundtrack and even if you don't personally do airs, which is fine, this is still pretty caffeinating, and you will want to go surfing and you'll want to go fast.

You can watch each entry at kustomairstrike.com and, until September 20, vote on which is worth [...]

There's a hundred-yard tunnel and John John is hanging out inside like Andy, Mick and Shane in that one Campaign dusk session. Chippa's doing carves. Everyone's getting cover-ups. This is easily the best episode yet.

While we're on the subject let's agree that "aerialist" is an ugly term that shouldn't be spoken. A place like Macaronis is [...]

In this second episode of the Airstrike series: John John chooses amplitude, Chippa does silky tech shit, and Matt/Albee/Ryan get tweaked in the air. All this happens over real shallow reef at Bank Vaults where everything mentioned in that last sentence is horribly unsafe.

Reward recklessness by voting for this year's best air at kustomairstrike.com [...]

This is the first piece of a four-part video series documenting flights, crashes and landings from the 2012 Kustom Airstrike. Come back August 9 for Episode 2.

What Youth appreciates the aerial. We're happy to show all its modern up-fuckedness through extended coverage of this year's Airstrike — its photography, stories and personalities.

On August [...]

Chapter 6 from the Airstrike boat trip in Indonesia. What Youth was along to document the project, and in this series we show and tell about the modern flight that took place there.

The series will be capped in August with four video shorts produced by Kai Neville. The trip's best air, as judged by [...]