Volcom Europe Men's Holiday 2014

Insecurity, sobriety, the feeling of filling a void in one's heart, are universal themes that have just as great of a potential to be destructive as they do to be the motivating factor in success. Sharing what drove him at a young age and what still drives him today, Kelly opens up about his family, relationships and how he stays focused on winning. As both the youngest and oldest surfer to ever win a world title, Kelly Slater's career successes stack up against the greatest in any sport; as an 11-time world champion, Kelly is one of the winningest athletes in history, more than Tiger Woods, more than Wayne Gretzky, more than Muhammad Ali. This rare glimpse into the psyche of the sport of surfing's most enduring competitor and innovator can be appreciated by anyone, surfer or not.

Following the news that they were selected as a #ThisFirst new hire, our winners have wasted no time seizing the opportunity to put their passion first. Kicking things off here in Europe, Àngel Pérez in Spain revealed that he will begin production on Horchata Perez Ortega - The Movie, a musical that will continue his Horchata… franchise. Having already composed the first song and casted an actress for the film, Angel will continue to document his creation process over the coming weeks as he completes the film's first song. El rodaje de la horchata va en serio. Ya hemos rodado dos escenas, queda un largo camino por delante pero mucha ilusión y muchos cameos. Tú puedes ser uno de ellos! Con @gemmaperez95 #truetothis #thisfirst #volcom A post shared by Àngel - APODOTS (@apo_fx) on Jul 28, 2017 at 11:08am PDT   "I feel very excited because this time I'll be able to spend time on my own project and not other's projects. I've been told many times: You can spend time fulfilling your dreams or you can waste time fulfilling other's dreams"   Grabando otra escena de la película de la horchata con @adrinstgonzalez y @gemmaperez95 para el premio de Volcom #thisfirst #truetothis #volcom A post shared by Àngel - APODOTS (@apo_fx) on Aug 1, 2017 at 10:40am PDT     In the U.K. Joanna Painter has begun a new large format charcoal piece that captures the beauty of her local break, Holywell Bay in Cornwall, and combines her passions of art and ocean conservation. Re-upped with a load of new supplies she’s been creating time-lapses that document her progress on the new piece which will end up taking well over 100 hours to complete. Stocking up for the next 6 weeks . . . #pastel #drawing #art #landscape #seascape #artist #contemporaryart #unisoncolour #surf #waves #charcoal #artwork #studio #sea #surf #volcom #thisfirst #truetothis #irrationalpursuit #artistsoninstagram #wip #blankcanvas A post shared by Jo Painter (@joannapainter) on Jul 25, 2017 at 10:42pm PDT     Already on his bicycle journey from Munich, Germany to the Atlantic coast through France and down to Spain, when he was notified that he was selected as a #ThisFirst new hire, Steffen Türmer has been riding, camping and documenting his adventure one roll of 35mm film at a time. I'm currently riding my bike from Munich to the Atlantic coast of France and then down to Spain. Huge thanks to @VOLCOM #THISFIRST for making this trip possible. I'm beyond stoked for the month to come. The last days I rode through the beautiful hills of the Limousin and in a few the days I should reach the coast. #TrueToThis A post shared by Steffen Türmer (@s.tuermer) on Jul 19, 2017 at 7:53am PDT     With just over two months until she will travel to compete Obstacle Course Racing championships in Canada this October, Anaïs Chausse has been hard at work training with the Tr1be OCR Team out of France and preparing for Tr1be's first online fit challenge. She also might have gone to Disneyland :) Sagement et en silence l'entraînement pour le Canada continue. L'impatience du départ s'installe !!! #tr1beocrteam #volcom #thisfirst #truetothis #tr1be #canada #spartan #spartanwomen #werise #bestteamever #fields A post shared by Anaïs (@anaischausse) on Aug 2, 2017 at 11:27am PDT     Over in the U.S., our five new hires after spending a couple days in Orange County and visiting the Volcom HQ in Costa Mesa are back home making things happen. Twenty one year old Tim Briggs, a third year student at Northeastern is making perpetrations to head to La Paz, Mexico where he will study the effects that plastic and fishing nets are having on the California Sea Lion population. A California Sea Lion entangled in fishing line at Santa Cruz pier. This sea lion is young and the line will continue to tighten as the sea lion grows unless the line is cut. This is one of my preliminary shots for @volcom #thisfirst If you see an entangled animal, call your local marine mammal rescue team. I'm going to be focusing on plastic pollution and the impacts of fishing, namely overfishing and entanglement. I'm at the airport right now on my way to La Paz, Mexico, where I'll be covering overfishing for Environmental Defense Fund and doing some dives with Volcom. Stay tuned. #sealion #plasticpollution #entanglement #ghostfishing #santacruz #volcom #thisfirst #lapaz #edf A post shared by Tim Briggs (@timbriggsphoto) on Aug 1, 2017 at 10:37am PDT     Immediately after returning from California, Houston's Brandon Clements along with his co-host Julian Lara drove to San Marcos, TX to cover Float Fest for their Dead Dialect podcast where they interviewed Cage The Elephant and Moon Taxi.     Norcal's Robert Wall arrived in Costa Mesa later than the rest of the U.S. hires, he was returning from a Colorado trip where he took 1st place in the largest freestyle cliff jumping event organized to-date in the United States. Robert's working alongside his wider group of jumpers to organize and legitimize the sport of cliff jumping. Last week we hosted the largest freestyle cliff jumping competition in the United States. . Over a hundred spectators and 20 of The best cliff jumpers and cliff divers in the country came out representing 12 different states to compete with a panel of 5 judges with backgrounds in cliff jumping/cliff diving as well as some with ski/snowboard backgrounds. . The result was something brand new and incredible. Congrats to 1st place @robert.wall and runners up @faayeded and @jakeofalltrades808 thanks to @14erbrewing @belongdesigns @outdoworldwide @flylowgear @healthyskoop this event was a huge success and I can't wait to plan the next competition. #coloradocliffcruise2017 #extremevertigo #ccc17 A post shared by Extreme Vertigo (@exvert) on Jul 24, 2017 at 4:20pm PDT My winning dives from the Colorado cliff cruise competition! Congrats to @faayeded and @jakeofalltrades808 for placing 2nd and 3rd the whole idea was to progress our skills in a friendly competitive environment. Huge shoutout to @travissims @14erbrewing @exvert and everyone else who helped put this together and judged the event! @Hopeisdopee . . . . . . #cliffjumping #cliffdiving #coloradocliffcruise2017 #ccc2017 #clifflife #adventure #adrenaline #exursionalways #hoagiexpringle #outdoors #hiking #outdoors #volcom #thisfirst #truetothis A post shared by Robert Wall (@robert.wall) on Jul 24, 2017 at 12:06pm PDT     Canarus Leon upon returning home to Houston jumped right back into regular Tuesday and Sunday night practices and hit the once a month battle night called Monster night. Constantly practicing with his crews, RAD and MZK, Canarus has his eyes set on Freestyle Championships in a Los Angeles this fall.     And Sara Becker headed back to Philadelphia only to then turn right around to visit Michigan with her family where she and her mother, who she is very close with, wrestled with opening up publicly about their family's struggles with mental illness. Once back in Philadelphia Sara's been working securing membership to a print shop and getting reacquainted with the city since moving back from South Carolina. Huge thank you to @jenkletooth for showing me around one of Philly's many bandos... I'm officially addicted! That's one of his characters on the bottom! #philly #philadelphiastreetart #wheatpaste #jenkletooth #sarabeckerisrad #phillystreetart #truetothis #thisfirst A post shared by Sara Becker (@sarabeckerisrad) on Jul 31, 2017 at 8:06pm PDT     Down in Peru, Carolina Paz traveled to the Carapongo Valley in Chosica, which is about two hours from Lima, where she is a creating a workshop for high school students that focuses on the empowerment of girls. Called "Poder Está Dentro de Mí" (I Have The Power in Me) and working in groups and in one-on-ones, the workshop will use creativity, art and imagination to develop the girls’ confidence, trust, love, self esteem of themselves, all through the lens of super heroines.     Chile's Simón Sepúlveda is working to bring to light the issues of immigration currently occurring in Chile. Of special interest to Simon is the plight of the Haitian migrants who are in search of a better life as they flee from their ravaged country. Only in the recent years has Chile and it's citizens have had to begin to consider immigration and without a comprehensive immigration policy in place, those migrating to the country are facing discrimination and labour abuse.     Having received his visa, Costa Rica's Fabian Ruiz, better known as Chama, is in the planning stages of a U.S. tour this fall. He's also in the process of building a new skate slide guitar and augmenting his one-man-band set up in preparation for stateside debut. Finally VISA ready planning the first USA tour, dont know where to start, any suggestions?? #trumpapproved #thanksobama #ronaldmcdonald #blessed A post shared by Fabian (@chamaride) on Jul 31, 2017 at 9:31am PDT     Across the Pacific in Japan, besides jumping behind the kit with the Michael Kaneko band at Fuji Rock Festival, Atsushi Miki has been lugging his Wadaiko out to various spots in natural and man-made spots to inspire new recordings. 滝 - WATERFALL - . Special Thanks KB & U @yukinorikbinoue @amaga_u . @Volcom @VolcomJapan . #Volcom #ThisFirst #TrueToThis #AtsushiMiki #御木惇史 #JP #Japan #GrandPrix #Drummer #Percussion #Wadaiko #Taiko #Sound #Spirit #drums #photo #photography #film #fashion #art #artist #snowboard #skateboard #surf #artwork #GP #session #groove #beat #waterfall A post shared by 御木惇史 / ATSUSHI MIKI (@atsushi_seizo) on Jul 26, 2017 at 4:33am PDT     And over in Taiwan, Chen Yu Ching, recently completed a backpacking trip in her home country of Taiwan in preparation for her upcoming volunteer trip to India. Feeling the need to continue to challenge herself, Chen wanted to try backpacking as a means to help build up her strength both mentally and physically. I'm living my dream in real!!! This is my first backpacking journey in my country, Taiwan. Before volunteering in India, I need to challenge myself to experience sth that I never did before!!朝夢想邁進！台灣背包客～#truetothis#thisfirst#volcom#backpacking#journey#challenge#livingdreams #2017#summer#godisgood#day1#taiwan#india#volunteer#goal#liveinaction#s4s#第二人生#youmatter A post shared by JochebedQ (@joch__19y) on Jul 24, 2017 at 4:09am PDT     Finally in Australia, Tylah Kerr is hard at work setting up a show in Melbourne. She's already confirmed the venue, The Gasometer Hotel, and locked in the first band, Vacations, from Newcastle. Tying in a give back, Tylah's show will help benefit the charity Make Life Skate Life, a non-profit organization creating community skateparks around the world, a cause that resonates with her dating back to a trip she took to Nepal when she was 16 years old.