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Ian Gentil HOT 100 GROMS

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Ian Gentil isn’t just terrifying the groms these days, he’s even got the adults rattled. After dismantling Ian Walsh—yes, that Ian Walsh—in a heat earlier this year, he’s got just about everybody on the Valley Isle scratching their heads. “I think he could beat me nine times out of 10 in a heat,” describes senior member of the Maui crew Micah Nickens, “and the only way I could beat him would be to sit on him the entire heat.” Ian’s shined in everything from weekend HASA events to NSSA Nationals to USA Surf Team tryouts. A lightening-fast regularfooter, while most kids are happy just to land an air reverse, Ian’s whipping

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