Alana Blanchard has been torturing us with her instagram account lately. The Kauai-born surfer beauty needs no introduction but we thought a good way to kick off the week and the year is to do a quick roundup of Blanchard's instagram goodness and use that to announce a new weekly photo feature - Insta Update, which will highlight the best selfies the world's most beautiful and badass action sports stars are taking - aka - making us all feel like we're sucking at life.

And, of course, if images aren't good enough, here's some video for ya...