"Already known around the slabs of Australia, when Russell Bierke won the 2016 Red Bull Cape Fear event, the rest of the world took notice. He went from being an unknown 18-year-old surfer from the South Coast of New South Wales, to an 18-year-old big wave hellman that was poised to change the game in big wave surfing. And he hasn’t disappointed."

Here's Red Bull throwing a mic in front of Russ, cut to some of his better work from the last year.