15| Dylan Graves
Birthday: January 8, 1986
Hometown: Isabella, Puerto Rico

Discovered young, raised in Puerto Rican waters alongside charger and searcher Brian Toth, Graves may rank as one of the best surfers to ever come out of the Atlantic isles. He also may be the oldest 21-year-old in the world. He’s grown up under the spotlight and endured the pressure of long-term exposure with relative ease. While he’s starred in both print media and videos, most notably Quiksilver’s Young Guns series, his competitive record is also relatively solid. He’s done well on the ASP junior circuit, and with a quarterfinal finish at the recent five-star Hang Loose Pro in Brazil showed he’s ready for the next step. Currently caught in the midst of that weird in between stage where he’s somewhat fallen off the map while grinding on the WQS building up his seed for an eventual WCT push, the world’s seen less of Graves lately, but it shouldn’t be long before his name comes up again.

16| Wade Goodall
Birthday: September 23, 1986
Hometown: Caloundra, Australia

For whatever reason, some of Australia’s best surfers are coming from the less than consistent Sunshine Coast. Wade Goodall is one of them. He’s the innovative joker who’s just as apt to crack the lip as he is a joke. Goodall caught Taj Burrow’s eye several years ago, appearing in Burrow’s Book of Hot Surfing. Since then he’s only continued to develop his energetic, aerial approach, which at this point already ranks amongst the best in the world. Credited with inventing “the Passion Pop” (a name that came due to Goodall’s affinity for Passion Pop, Australia’s version of a wine cooler), he’s since retired the maneuver. “I kept asking him to do one at Rocky Point this winter,” explains Clay Marzo. “But he said he’ll never do one again, he was busting these massive full-rotation 360 airs instead.” And while the Passion Pop may have gone the way of the Chop Hop, Goodall’s got both the power and the testicular fortitude to avoid being labeled just “an air guy.” His free-spirited approach hasn’t translated well in contests, but to his credit he was undaunted by the eight-foot Teahupoo grinders in the trials of the Billabong Pro in Tahiti last year.