Will Skudin

While it is still technically hurricane season, this past weekend we experienced our first Nor'Easter of the year!  The remnants of Hurricane Willa in the Pacific crossed the continent and morphed into the nor'easter that sent significant swell to the northeast.  Saturday saw big, challenging, and unruly surf on Long Island while Sunday saw pristine conditions [...] Continue Reading

Looking Back at NY Surf Week 2018 Celebrating its’ 9th year, New York Surf Week presented by NYSEA was one hell of a good time.  NY Surf Week hosted surf & skate contests, adaptive surf clinics, a vending village on the boardwalk, movie night, and of course the annual mid-summer bash.  This year saw both [...] Continue Reading

“The best one yet,” claims New York’s Will Skudin. The 8th Annual NY Surf Week dedicated to George “Geeza” Gieser went off with a bang. A small groundswell all week set the tone for another jam-packed week of events. Skate contests, Vending Village, movie nights, parties and more fills the town of Long Beach, New [...] Continue Reading

It’s the middle November in New York and the weather begins to chill.  No doubt the temperatures will be dropping rapidly over the next couple weeks. However, somewhere between the city’s high rise concrete structures and icy shores of Long Island, a fire is burning inside one man to become the world’s best big wave [...] Continue Reading

Check out this short video, shot & edited by Will Skudin Hurricane Mathew swell – 10-08-16 Surfers: Chris Hamlet , Thor Larson , CJ Mangio In the Gutter from NYsea Collective on Vimeo.

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Madison Square Barrels – NYC Is this the best day of surf ever captured in Rockaway Beach, New York City ? – October 8th 2015 – by Thomas Brookins We think so, if not please show us otherwise. Narrated by Jeff Anthony Surfers: Jeff Anthony, Peter Egan, Shane Murphy Footage: Thomas Brookins, Jason Belsky Editor: […]

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There are surfers out there with raw talent. We see kids ripping at such a young age it just seems to come natural to them. That talent stays with them and through the years they excel through the rankings. There are also surfers who keep working at it; plugging away and doing everything they can […]

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Will Skudin (pictured below) will be competing in the first-ever World Surf League Puerto Escondido Challenge on Friday June 24 and Saturday June 25, 2016. This event kicks off this season of the Big Wave Tour. Click here to tune in to the event live tomorrow morning in heat 2. Will Skudin, 31, a Long […]

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Will Skudin makes history by becoming the first East Coast surfer ever to be nominated for the Surfline Men’s Best Overall Performance Award presented by the WSL / Big Wave Awards. Will joins a list of 9 other world-renowned watermen to receive this nomination. They will all gather in California for the WSL Big Wave Awards on April 23rd. There […]

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During the biggest swell of the year on February 25th, 2016, most eyes were on Waimea Bay for the prestigious Eddie Aikau big wave contest. The rest of the big wave elite that wasn’t at Waimea went to Pe’ahi ­ also known as Jaws ­ and started towing the massive right with the exception of […]

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New York Crew goes XXL in Oregon. We caught up with Kurt Rist, Will and Cliff Skudin for some details on their trip. NYSEA– Kurt, how was that wave at the Yeti? Things looked nuts! Kurt – I’ve heard stories about this wave for a long time, and the stories are true. It could easily […]

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Nazare Portugal is known for the biggest wave World Record ridden by Garret Macnamara. The idea of catching such mountains of water is mind blowing. A small crew of watermen from all corners of the world, met up with only 72 hours notice, to attempt to paddle these water mountains. The watermen crew was selected by […]

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The 2015/16 World Surf League’s Big Wave Tour is looking forward to a spectacular winter season fueled by major El Nino conditions.  After releasing the list this week filled with 36 of the best big wave surfers on the planet, it looks like the Big Wave Tour is locked and loaded and merely awaiting the “Green Light” […]

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NYSEA Presents | NY Bender NYsea | New York Bender from NYsea Collective on Vimeo. What’s a bender? A heavy string of nights and days that turn into a long run. A mix of good times, tired eyes, and sore bodies. A bender involves happy moments, sad moments, and angry moments but when its over […]

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Eye candy gallery by professional photographer James Parascandola. Enjoy ! “This swell was well needed here in New York after just coming out of one of the flattest septembers in history. About three weeks ago everyone began seeing a little disturbance down south and started talking about how we could possibly get waves. My fingers […]

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One ugly huge session at Mullaghmore, turned into a beautiful short film.  British philosopher Alan Watts describe the illusion of fear and the boys face it in the dark water of Ireland. NY Surfers – Will Skudin(opening wave), Dylan Stott and Kurt Rist. UK Surfers – Francisco Alves, Jayce Robinson and Lydon Wake. Directed by Eduardo […]

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Flash Back to this past winter in Hawaii. New York’s Brian Pollak, Zack Dayton and Will Skudin earned a handful of spreads in the first ever EasternSurf Magazine / Digital PhotoBook. Check out the Full Feature HERE .  

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NYSEA crew meets up with international field for a couple days of windy madness in the Guinness country. You can’t put chains on a wild animal. Well, I guess you can try but someone’s going down. With 2 days of huge cold surf and 60+ mph side offshore winds this crew put it all on […]

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Will Skudin teams up with a small crew at Pe’ahi (Jaws). With winds and waves looking more on the sketchy side, it was questionable if the day would even be rideable. We caught up with Will after his session for a couple questions. NYSEA –  Who was the team this time around ? Will – […]

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January 21st 2015 saw the biggest swell of the year so far in Hawaii. The Skudin brothers Cliff and Will met up with Kealii Mamala for some Hawaiian power. An amazing outer reef paddle session went down. The brothers were not the only East Coasters in the line up. Fellow NYer, Balaram Stack, NJ’s Rob Kelly […]

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Article / Photo Gallery by Grant Monahan The best things in life are unexpected, and tend to pull you away from previous plans.  I was enjoying a Guinness with Costa Rica on my mind, bags packed and ready for a 9:30 a.m. flight.  Then Will Skudin walked in… “Grant, you want to come to Spain?  Shoot […]

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Heading into Thanksgiving this year was different for the Skudin brothers. They didn’t have the traditional turkey dinner at home with their family, instead Will and Cliff were at Newark International Airport grabbing fast food and boarding a plane to Portugal. “Our eyes have been on Nazare for the past two years, but especially this […]

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Last week a group of NYers met up with a couple of the local boys down south for the first good swell of the year. Earth Missions travel agency specializes in score missions. Now teamed up with NYSEA, Earth Mission’s goal is to put us in the right spot at the right time, and so they […]

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10-01-14 NYSEA Crew takes on giant Mullaghmore. Again. After a summer of teaching surfing, this small crew of NYer’s Kurt Rist, Dylan Stott, Will Skudin and TJ Gumiela were eager to refill the tank. The day went down with some highs, some lows, paddles, tows and a handful of great memories. To make a long […]

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