From the same crop of quickly emerging North County cognoscente–Kobe Hughes has been living out the increasingly fleeting lifestyle of pro freesurfer. Traveling, scoring, shaping. If Burch reintroduced the sidecut and Derrick the twinzer, Kobe’s most notable contribution to modern design is the widepoint—namely, back. His tail-forward shapes like the “Patty Star” can recently be seen around the beaches of Angourie under the feet of Stephanie Gilmore, among others.