We are the Campions

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Issue

June 2012

Photographs by

Bobby Altman

Addison Miles is well on his way to a professional surfing career. He’s part of the ESA All Star team and in May won the ESA Mid-Atlantic regionals in Carolina Beach, N.C.

Fifteen-year-old Addison Miles prepares for a trick in the surf at 13th Avenue South in Surfside Beach.

Before the summer season starts local surfers have the beach and the water to themselves.

Eleven-year-old Micha Cantor, one of the youngest and winningest kids on the local team, surfs year-round here and abroad.

Local surf champ Micha Cantor relaxes with his dad, Stoney Cantor, on the family’s boat in Murrells Inlet.

Surfing champion Cam Richards is just as comfortable riding waves along the Grand Strand as he is anywhere around the world, including this pipe in Bali. He recently returned from Australia where he placed third in Rip Curl’s GromSearch international surfing contest.

Relaxing near Garden City Beach Pier with a few of his trophies and a few of his surfboards, national champ Cam Richards is enjoying a life most teens only dream about.

Addison Miles and Micha Cantor sign autographs at a local benefit.

Local surf champion Cam Richards, 16, rides a decent wave near 13th Avenue South in Surfside Beach.

Eastern Surfing Association 2011 winners, all from the Grand Strand, and all belonging to the Village Surf Shoppe team, are Addison Miles, Cam Richards and Micha Cantor. Richards also won the Men’s NSSA U.S. Open, taking the top spot in the nation.

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