Competitors for the Grom Bash were greeted to blue skies and clean 3ft peaks at Kiama Wedge on Saturday 15th August. With a years sponsorship on the line the competition was fierce. Early round stand outs were Taylor Brockman, Jacob Lee, Liam Tomkins and Shane Marsetti. The good conditions made for some great viewing. 

Before the final a 30min Expression Session was held seeing Dallas Singer and Thomas Robinson going for it in the wedging conditions. Dallas blasting a big air reverse and Thomas back flipping off every wedge that came his way. 

The waves continued to pump for the final and a traveling hump back whale even called in to check out some of the action. In the end 17year old Todd McCorie walked away with the year’s sponsorship, winning the final in the last minute with a big full rotation air reverse. 2nd place went to Taylor McAlary, 3rd Corey Daglish and 4th Connor Nelson. 

Dallas commented “some of the surfing was phenomenal, the groms were tearing. Todd ripped all day so I think he will be a great new member to the team, I’m looking forward to surfing with him.” The event raised over one thousand dollars for the JAAGO charity organization. 

JAAGO Foundation is a charitable organization dedicated to the betterment of underprivileged and poverty-stricken children of Bangladesh. Founded in April 2007 in Dhaka by a group of young students, it focuses mainly on battling malnutrition and illiteracy in children and on rehabilitating them to better environments and social conditions. JAAGO is currently directed to conducting activities to provide more long-term and sustainable benefits to children who are under the poverty line. If you would like to donate to Jaago please do at www.jaago.com.bd A huge thanks needs to go out to all the event sponsors, riders and everyone that helped out on the day. -4Play. *All images by www.philgallagher.com

We've been plugging away on our photo annual for some weeks now. Hitting every photographer we know for their best and whipping our slack-jawed designers into motion. We've had main-man Murray Bell working some magic and called in the work of a former Movement designer Nick Rudenno of Dik Studio for some titles. 

Overall it's looking like one of our best projects to date. Less concern for editorial relevance and just pure love for the shot. A nice headspace to operate. You'll be able to grab it in November, it'll be the fanciest booklet in your newsagencies with all the fancy and expensive print extras and don't fret OS friends, you'll be able to purchase here or in B&N in the States or select outlets in Europe a little later.

The dudes that started this mag, check out the logo they created (and paid to have in foam form).