It’s raw, hard, and tough. It’s life on the WQS grind. But with a solid coach in your corner and some of the best up-and-coming surfers by your side, success is an uppercut away, or a knifing top turn in the final. In the first episode of Snaketales, Coach Jake “The Snake” Patterson takes his crew to Newcastle for the QS 6000. What follows are aggressive freesurfs, plenty of laughs, days of variable surf during competition, and the woes of taking second place. So take a seat and tag along as Marc Lacomare, Leo Fioravanti, Kanoa Igarashi, Zeke Lau, and more tribe up and hit it in Australia.