Opening day at Malibu with a pumping south swell June 9th, 2006. When you're lucky enough to be in the right spot to shoot one of the most stylish surfers on the planet, Mikey February. Hit play, wind him up and watch him go.

Moore opened up a Final of CT icons against two-time World Champion Tyler Wright (AUS) with a mid-range 5.50 (out of a possible 10) on her consistently powerful forehand following a quick opener to take the lead. Moore stayed busy under priority and locked into a Punta Roca runner to showcase more of her forehand variety, with glimpses of power in sections that offered, to post a 4.83, forcing Wright to need an excellent 8.00. A critical exchange at the 19-minute mark witnessed Wright use her priority, but the wave didn’t provide the opportunity needed as Moore took off on the next wave and put on a masterclass of power and variety. Moore’s 8.33 put Wright into a combination situation, but only briefly, as the two traded on back-to-back Punta Roca walls with Wright digging into her power form and a 7.67 to catapult herself back into the heat. 

"It doesn't feel real. This sport is so hard, and I've dedicated the last 10 years of my life to getting this win. I've come close a lot of times, and it feels unreal," said Fioravanti.  "My crew is amazing. I've got the best coaches in the world. [Richard] Dog [Marsh] has been with me since I was twelve years old. Having Ramzi [Boukhiam], Connor [O'Leary], and Tyler [Wright]. My filmer Tommy has been supporting me this whole week. My wife, who's back home, always says, 'Don't win when I'm not there.' I love you. There are so many years of believing in not giving up. That Final at Pipe last year really broke my heart, but I never gave up. I tried to just keep going ahead, and keep thinking positive. And always saying my moment would come, and I just kept believing in that. Thank you to WSL and Surf City for providing this event to us, it was just insane."

IYYE | Barnaby Cox | A Surf Film by Rob Blackett

After competing on the 2022 European QS, Barnaby Cox packed up and left the tour behind. No plan beyond wanting to go places he'd always talked about and surf waves he'd only seen in clips.

Indonesia came first. Cox had grown up watching Reubyn Ash edits, and the advice had stuck. "If you wanna get good at surfing, just go to Indo," Ash had told him. He arrived in Bali in December 2023 and spent three months working through Bali, Nusa Lembongan, Lombok and Sumbawa, getting sunburnt and razzing around on mopeds. Sumbawa was the highlight, with Ash and his dad making the trip out alongside friends from home. "We had such a great time," Cox says, with the kind of understatement that tends to follow the best trips.

From there, a coaching job came up at Kandooma in the Maldives. He took it, stayed nearly two years. "It was such a trip getting to the island and realising, this is my work now." He loved the coaching side, reading waves for guests, pointing out the good ones, trying to help people have the trip of a lifetime. "It wasn't always perfect, but I look back pretty stoked on the whole experience."

During the Maldives off-season he flew to Durban and spent six weeks volunteering with Surfers Not Street Children. Cox grew up in Cornwall where nobody locked the doors at night. In Durban he didn't go outside after dark. "I heard gunshots at night, driving around seeing people super high on the streets, sketchy people and young kids growing up amongst it. I hadn't really understood my privilege before that." The programme works across the whole picture, getting kids into schools, feeding them, doing social work with their families, finding safe housing, and surfing every afternoon after school. "If I had spare money I'd definitely donate it to them."

The film itself almost didn't happen. Most of the footage sat on a hard drive because Cox wasn't competing and had no reason to post anything. When he finally looked back through it, he was surprised by what was there. "I was actually so stoked on it. I wanted to make something out of it because I was proud of it and wanted something to look back on, rather than doing it for views or sponsors or anything like that." Rob Blackett edited it, sifting through gigs and gigs of clips to get it to where it needed to be.

The film's title comes from that last stretch. Iyye is yesterday in Dhivehi, one of the few words Cox picked up during his time there. Cox is 25 now, back home in Cornwall, running his own surf coaching business at barnabysurf.com.