Ben Bourgeios

Home between 'CT events, Ben Bourgeios heads off the beaten path in Costa Rica searching for waves. The payoff: Overhead, empty, warm, beach break lineups.

"Beyond The Barrier" directed by award-winning film maker Joe Cheshire takes you into the lives of some of the worlds best surfers who happen to be from or on the East Coast of The United States. Filmed on Location in 2008 during one of the best years for surf the East Coast has seen in recent memory. From epic Hurricane swells to freezing winter conditions come find out what it is like Beyond the Barrier. Featuring: Cory Lopez, Ben Bourgeois, Pat Gudauskas, Jesse Hines, Lucas Rogers, Mark Yonkers and many more.

Burn a 40-minute film, catches up with Bobby Martinez, Ben Bourgeois and the rest of the talented surfers showcased in one of Josh Williams' first works, The Rising, released in 2001. Burn also introduces new prodigies, such as 15-year-old Clay Marzo of Hawaii.

Ben Bourgeois hacks away in tropical waters.

Untouched files from the depths of Ben Bourgeois' computer.

Rideable once or twice a week still equates to a pretty good summer on the East Coast. A consistent string of groundswells means an exceptional summer on the East Coast. A couple solid hurricane swells before July means it's officially a pumping summer on the East Coast. But you still have to know where to be. And when. And how to get there; after all, it's still the East Coast, where timing and positioning and a friend with a boat can make all the difference between A-frame bombs and B-team bull. Given their trusty figurehead Ben Bourgeois' reputation for scoring, few surfers had their shit together this season like the North Carolina boys. They know tropical swells love inlets, tropical swells love barrier islands and tropical swells rarely last more than a day. So when T.S. Debby rolled up to North Carolina this June, they knew the drill.

24hrs after landing in Hawaii, Benny B leaves to chase a swell in North Carolina.

Alek Parker and crew head to North Carolina -- straight into the teeth of this year's first major storm.