Say what you will about the WSL, their overhaul of the Longboard tour, and a new judging criteria that rewards traditional longboarding was sorely needed, and the placement of Devon Howard at the helm a masterstroke. It’s allowed longboarding to show its true colours, and it has gained a lot of new fans.
Under the new structure, Honolua Bloomfield was crowned 2019 women’s World Champion, and she is a perfect ambassador for the discipline. Here lauded filmmaker and photographer, Morgan Maassen, documents Honolua doing her thing free of the contest singlet, both at home in Hawaii and abroad.