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Ryan Ragan: Professional Surfer, Coach, Teacher, Athlete

Ryan started surfing in Daytona Beach at 11, swept his first contest at 14, and spent the years that followed competing and free surfing around the world, featured in magazines and videos along the way.

These are the frames from those years. He teaches every lesson out of what is in these photographs.

01: The figures

Ryan Ragan, Professional Surfer

Ryan Ragan crouched deep inside a large turquoise barreling wave — FIG. 04:THE COACH, DEEP IN A TURQUOISE BARREL

Ryan Ragan barreled on a green wave, shot from the water with cliffs behind — FIG. 05:BARRELED, SHOT FROM THE WATER

Ryan Ragan silhouetted inside a glowing turquoise barrel — FIG. 06:SILHOUETTE, INSIDE THE BARREL

Ryan Ragan laying into a snap on a tiger-print shortboard — FIG. 07:LAYING INTO A SNAP

Ryan Ragan tail-sliding through a layback turn — FIG. 08:TAIL-SLIDE THROUGH THE LAYBACK

Ryan Ragan boosting a frontside grab air — FIG. 09:FRONTSIDE GRAB AIR

Ryan Ragan throwing a huge fan of spray off the top of a wave — FIG. 10:FAN OF SPRAY OFF THE TOP

Ryan Ragan punting fins-free over the whitewater — FIG. 11:FINS-FREE OVER THE WHITEWATER

Ryan Ragan hacking a frontside turn with spray flying — FIG. 12:FRONTSIDE HACK, SPRAY FLYING

Close-up of Ryan Ragan mid-cutback with fanning spray — FIG. 13:MID-CUTBACK, CLOSE RANGE

Ryan Ragan blasting a fins-out snap on a yellow board — FIG. 14:FINS-OUT SNAP, YELLOW BOARD

Ryan Ragan setting his rail on a glassy overhead emerald wave face — FIG. 15:RAIL SET, GLASSY OVERHEAD WALL

Ryan Ragan throwing the tail through the lip of a wave — FIG. 16:TAIL THROWN THROUGH THE LIP

Ryan Ragan carving off the top of a wave with spray trailing — FIG. 17:CARVE OFF THE TOP, SPRAY TRAILING

Ryan Ragan snapping off the lip on clean water — FIG. 18:SNAP OFF THE LIP, CLEAN WATER

Ryan Ragan turning hard under the lip while surfers paddle behind — FIG. 19:HARD TURN UNDER THE LIP

Ryan Ragan in a contest jersey snapping on a turquoise wave — FIG. 20:CONTEST JERSEY, TURQUOISE WALL

Ryan Ragan snapping under a big peak in a contest jersey — FIG. 21:SNAP UNDER A BIG PEAK

Ryan Ragan pulling into a glassy green barrel in a wetsuit — FIG. 22:GLASSY GREEN BARREL, WETSUIT

Ryan Ragan taking a late drop on an overhead peak — FIG. 23:LATE DROP, OVERHEAD PEAK

Ryan Ragan carving a large wave, photographed from above — FIG. 24:CARVE, SHOT FROM ABOVE

Ryan Ragan in a cap and sunglasses in the shade under a pier — FIG. 63:UNDER THE PIER

Ryan Ragan riding deep inside a large green barrel with cliffs behind — FIG. 77:INSIDE A GREEN BARREL, CLIFFS BEHIND

Ryan Ragan set deep in a hollow green barrel with a headland behind — FIG. 78:DEEP IN THE BARREL, HEADLAND BEHIND

Ryan Ragan turning hard under a breaking lip on a green wave — FIG. 79:UNDER THE LIP

Ryan Ragan hitting the top of a wave and throwing a wall of spray — FIG. 80:OFF THE TOP, SPRAY EVERYWHERE

Ryan Ragan turning hard off the top of a wave in a wetsuit top, spray behind — FIG. 81:HARD OFF THE TOP

Ryan Ragan riding low across a steep green wave face — FIG. 82:DRIVING ACROSS A GREEN FACE

Ryan Ragan hitting the lip of a clean wave with his arm extended — FIG. 83:OFF THE LIP, ARM OUT

Ryan Ragan throwing a snap with spray over deep blue water — FIG. 84:SNAP ON DEEP BLUE WATER

Ryan Ragan in a wetsuit holding his board upright beside a van — FIG. 85:BOARD IN HAND, BESIDE THE VAN

Ryan Ragan standing among four shortboards with the sun low behind bougainvillea — FIG. 86:FOUR BOARDS AND A LOW SUN

Ryan Ragan carving a hard hack off the top of a wave — FIG. 87:HACK OFF THE TOP

Ryan Ragan riding through the foam with another surfer alongside — FIG. 88:TWO SURFERS IN THE FOAM

Ryan Ragan inside a green barrel with a jungle headland behind — FIG. 89:GREEN BARREL UNDER THE HEADLAND

Ryan Ragan throwing a big turn off the top with spray arcing overhead — FIG. 90:BIG TURN, SPRAY OVERHEAD

Ryan Ragan riding under the lip of a blue wave, a swimmer visible in the foreground — FIG. 91:UNDER THE LIP ON BLUE WATER

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