Date of Birth: October 30, 1990

Best Known For: I have no clue

Local Spot: Sebastian Inlet

My Crew: Bonez, Keytan, Royal, Dirt Snake, Deano Splumoni

Board of Choice: 6’0” x 18.25” 2.15”

Dream Wave: Restaurants or a place called Pebbles in Samoa

My Top Five:

1.) Family 2.) New boards 3.) Funny people 4.) Fast food 5.) Gorgeous women

Check Oliver Kurtz's vid on innersection.tv

"Vote for Ollie" is our new slogan for a while. Because Hurley's Oliver Kurtz is locked deep in a battle for a slot in Taylor Steele's next video. It's called Innersection, and it's the first time Taylor's sent out an invitation to the entire world to be in his next video. The only catch: you have to be voted in, and it'll be happening during four separate "quarters" during the year. Five guys per quarter, 20 surfers total.

Oliver's one of 16 surfers to submit a video for the first quarter, and his effort is solid. Granted, the majority is filmed in Florida slop, but Kurtz still gets the job done.

Check the video here.

And remember: vote for Ollie.

Featuring: Rosie, Lyndsey Roach and the Walk the Walk kickoff; Florida charger Oliver Kurtz

Oliver Kurtz: clean lines at Pipe. Video: Tom Aiello

Hurley Team does well in the mush

A fun weekend down in jupiter for the fall classic. Team riders cheyne cottrell, oliver kurtz , mikey detemple , and myself attended the contest. The first day was about as bad as it could be. knee high waves breaking right on the beach with rocks everywhere. All of us somehow got through the first round. The next day was at least ridable with waist high mushy windswell. Cheyne surfed really well for it being small and barely got knocked out in the semi-finals. mikey got 3rd in the longboard finals and i got last in the mens final. i just couldn't find a wave in the 25 minute finale. It was a great turnout for the event, with bands, a bikini contest, hot girls everywhere, and a awesome beer tent going on at all times.

ASHER

Asher and Oliver Kurtz enjoy two north swells in the OBX

The East Coast is usually supposed to be good during the fall. So far we have only really had three tropical swells and they were fun but nothing amazing. Florida only got two of those swells and after being home for over two weeks and only surfing once I was getting the itch. The forecast reports started claiming that there was going to be a good size north swell with possible good winds in the outer banks of north carolina. I decided to charge up there and see if i could get lucky and get some fun solid waves. Oliver Kurtz was in cali and i told him that i was heading up there. He hasn't ever experienced a good swell there before so he got a ticket and met me there. We ended getting great waves for five days straight. From big thick barrels to super clean fun barrels. It was definitely hard to get them cause of the crazy drift but when you got one it was amazing. After five days of nonstop paddling and running up the beach my body is pretty beat up but it's a good feeling knowing that I surfed my brains out. — Asher

Check out more Matt Lusk pics at http://www.mattluskphotography.com

Check out the Surfline article at: http://www.surfline.com/surf-news/east-coast-nor-easter_31478/1/

2009 Winner Ben Bourgeios keeps the WRV/HURLEY PRO title in North Carolina

This year's WRV / HURLEY PRO Contest went down in Nags Head, North Carolina on September 18th -- 20th. Contest winner Benny B. was pretty much on fire for the whole event, but Ben had lot of guys nipping at his heels all the way to the finals. Hurley stand outs included finalist Asher Nolan (3rd) and Michael Powell (2nd). This was Michael's biggest contest result yet. Oliver Kurtz (5th) and Michael Dunphy(9th) made a strong showing, and turned many heads during the event. The three day event saw tons of waves, giveaways, spectators, and just a whole lot of fun. Speaking of fun, the Hurley product launching was a hit (check photos). Special thanks goes out to the whole crew at the Comfort Inn Hotel for letting us take over and do our thing. Also I must thank all the sponsors that made the weekend a hit. Contest MC's were Ian Parnell, John Klientop, Matt Pruett, and myself. Needless to say we had plenty of fun on the microphones. All in all, the Contest was a blast !!! — Noah Snyder

Chasing Tropical Storm Danny in Florida

Getting the short end of the storm with Oliver Kurtz

Well, the past two days have been some of the most frustrating and disappointing excuses for waves I've seen from a hurricane. I did so much driving and didn't reap many rewards. I only got Sebastian inlet fun one afternoon where the light was good and there were 7 photogs on the beach. While I'm waiting to see the results from that session, there were no other good waves to be had on my part for the rest of the swell. Melbourne was too big and closed out, NSB and Daytona were good yesterday I heard but I got that call too late before I could head up, and the OBX and Jersey were too large, then New York, Maine and all those spots were really good but I couldnt arrange a crew to get up there. So basically I had a shocker on this hurricane swell. These are photos are from the other night where no one was around at Inlet except a local photog.

Hopefully there's more to come.

Oliver-

Oliver Kurtz dials up the UK

That's right baby, England. I arrived here last week to compete in the 5 Star WQS Contest at Fistral Beach Newquay in hopes so score some fun waves, get some points to boost my rating, and get out of the dead flat conditions that Central Florida has literally had the whole summer. I realize now that's exactly what I did, made a good chunk of change, got some solid points, scored some really fun waves, but I didn't do as well as I wanted to in the contest.

But all in all it's been a really fun trip so far and it's unlike any other place i've ever been in the world. (and it's always fun to visit the mother country) Now I'm sitting here in London, taking in the scenery, doing a bit of touristy stuff, and just chillin' with my parents in the not so great weather. I'll be here for three more days, then i'm off to France to compete in the contest in Bordeaux next week. I've never been to France and I can't wait to visit the place and eat some baguettes and hopefully get some more fun waves!

Anyway, here are some pics from the trip thus far. I didn't realize it but I'm kinda getting into photography a little bit. I always end up taking frames of scenery and stuff so hope you like these... — O

Brad Ettinger walks us through last week's mega swell. Sequence: Joe Foster

This day was the most crowded I have ever seen the Wedge. Just getting to the beach was an adventure in itself. We suprisingly found a parking spot realtively quickly, but we were about six blocks away.

The beach had so many people I could barely walk with my board down to the shoreline. The swell this day had a lot of west in it so the waves were hitting against the jetty more than usual. The good news was that there were only a half dozen guys in the water so there were plenty of waves.

I only caught two waves that day, but it took an hour to get 'em. My first one is the wave in the video: big, brown, ugly and no hope. But it was fun. The second one I totally thought I'd make it. I was under the ledge, had a good jump on it, but right as I stood up it looked hopeless. So, I jumped. On the bigger days out there, it's deeper so I didn't hit bottom on either of these waves. But on the smaller days, you're nailing the sand every time. It's so crazy when you take off — full arena vibe. It was funny 'cause earlier that day, I surfed a heat against Kelly at the US Open and I felt like I was at the Staples Center. Then I went down to Wedge and it was there another huge audience.

Anyway, catching the waves wasn't the problem this day — it was swiming in to the beach after getting smashed. I would be ten feet from the beach, trying to bodysurf in and I wasn't going anywhere. After ten minutes of swimming, I thought I'd be flagging down the lifeguard boat a couple hundred yards offshore. But eventually I made it in. People write off the Wedge as a novelty or just a shorebreak. But for all the beatings you get out there, just one good one makes it all worth it.