Body Glove Surf Team Photos from Hurley Pro at Lower Trestles

Unless you have been living under a surf rock or have been too busy surfing your favorite waves during the last run of swell you probably saw some of the incredible footage from the Hurley Pro where they scored 3 days of pumping south swell Lower Trestles in San Clemente, California. Event winner Kelly Slater put on quite a show but so did the Body Glove Team of Dusty Payne, Gabe Kling and Luke Stedman. Here are a few shots from an incredible week. All photos by Mike Balzer!

Luke Stedman Double Grab

Luke Stedman Warm Up Surf

Luke Stedman Mid Heat Power Gouge

Gabe Kling Happy to Make It Back on Tour for the Lowers Lefts

Gabe Kling Big Airs Could Not Quite Take Down Event Champion Kelly Slater

Gabe Kling Doing the Lowers Rock Hop for a Warm Up Surf

Dusty Payne Putting it on Rail in his Round 4 Heat

Dusty Payne Free Surf

Dusty Payne Was Ripping during the Expression Session

Dusty Payne Man Hack

Body Glove at the US Open of Surfing

The huge US Open of Surfing is going on all week down at the Huntington Beach Pier in SoCal. The crew at Hurley, Nike 6.0 and Converse have taken the event to the next level and the surfers, brands and the industry in general are amped for the biggest event in the United States. Body Glove surfers Dusty Payne, Gabe Kling, Austin Ware, Mike Losness, Nate Yeomans, Luke Stedman and Erica Hosseini are all in the main event and most start surfing today. Dusty Payne is also Surfing All-Stars Expression Session next Sunday with 10 other of the best surfers in the world. This event has everything: amazing surfing, skateboarding, art, fashion shows, BMX, Life Rolls On Expression Session and bands including Tomorrow's Bad Seeds and Weezer. Body Glove will be in the mix all week and we hope to see you down there. If you can't make it to Huntington Beach you can catch every heat and every event online at www.usopenofsurfing.com or on their free iphone app.

Luke Stedman takes one on the head.

Here's a sequence out of the archives of Body Glove team rider, Luke Stedman, dropping in Backdoor and the taking a heavy lip to the head. He made it out of the water and said he was still dazed when he was walking up the beach. Photo were shot by Mike Balzer at the Pipemasters back in 2008.

Luke Stedman Surf Shots

A few shots of Luke Stedman surfing these past few days in the New Body Glove Wetsuit, The CT.

Yesterday at Lowers.  Photo by Mike Balzer

Monday at Manhattan Beach Pier.  Photo by Greg Browning

Monday at Manhattan Beach Pier.  Photo by Mike Balzer

Photoshoot with Luke Stedman

Body Glove Wetsuit team rider Luke Stedman came down on Monday and spent the day with the Body Glove Entertainment crew.  The day started out surfing Manhattan Beach Pier for some surfing shots and wrapped up at the end of the day in the hills of Palos Verdes for some lifestyle shots.  The crew is down at Lowers this morning getting more surf shots and I will post shots from that sessions tomorrow.

Luke getting his board ready.

Greg Browning and Luke going over the photoshoot concept.

Scott Smith getting his video camera ready.

Luke wearing the new Body Glove CT wetsuit.

Paparazzi surrounding Luke as he makes his way to the water.

Greg Browning going out in the water to get some water footage.

Luke Stedman surfing Manhattan Beach

Angle from the beach.

Same shot from the Manhattan Beach Pier.

Scouting the location in P.V.

Greg filming detail shots of the suit.

Luke was great to work with that day.  He pretty much did everything we asked him to do without complaining.  

Photo on the hill with the city in the background. Picture by Mark Kawakami

Product shot of the Body Glove CT wetsuit. Picture by Mark Kawakami