When an all-time swell arrives at the same time as the most frothing groms in the country, you just know the result will be epic. That’s what happened at the 2022 The Connect Group South Island Grom Series New Brighton surf comp this past weekend.
You can read the full blow-by-blow story here, then immerse yourself in our 40 frames of what went down:
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