Luscious and high contrast!
Jack Robinson is the boy with the bouffant hairdo who, as one surf agent told me recently, was the last of the great speculative buys.
Do you remember three years ago when Billabong shovelled their last shekels at Jack to steal him away from Quiksilver, back when they were separate companies and not part of the same American hedge fund? Billabong’s Gordon Merchant described Jack as a “once-in-a-generation” talent and got the kid on a five-year deal.
The following Hawaiian winter Jack, then seventeen, beat Jamie O and Mason Ho to win the Pipeline trials. And it wasn’t small.
Anyway, even though Jack’s career trajectory hasn’t gone exactly to plan since any sort of vision of his surfing features elegant, painterly lines.
In the (very) short below, we see Jack at Rabbits (is it okay to name Rabs now? Does Taj know) by the Western Australian-based filmer Azure Co.
Worth a little contemplation.
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Yes it feckin was
Using Mason in Portugal is irrelevant and retarded, thus cancelling out the remainder of your argument
I’ve had some of the worst surfs of my life out there. Repeatedly over the falls, can’t catch a single wave, dropped in on by 10 year old girls. It’s quite a fucking nightmare!
I surfed the next wave south from “the long right” today….2 grommets and I for two hours. Got 1 smoker only, all others straighthanders or backwash warbles, but what a beautiful day.
Thought I’d share this experience. Thanks for listening. Over and out.
How blue and clear was water in the SW yesterday! Some fun uncrowded waves about to if you knew where to look.
Roger that. Yesterday was magic…Dolphins, whales, the full monty.
One smoker is well worth the paddle!
Jack is the real deal
I was sooooo looking forward to Mason wiping the floor with the competition, and then…
I like the new BG, mostly Chas fuming about stab with a little sanity sprinkled in here and there from Derek.
christ that was mental!
Drone footage belongs in Lemoore pools and Leless oceans.
for a Subaru ad.
Imagine 2018 world tour heats with Jack vs Clay vs JJF vs Medina vs Mick etc in pumping Indo et al
Occy, that Seth African, maybe Ronnie, and Rosy on commentary
No Porta. No soundproof booths or relativity
Oz time zone, so good
Yes WSL, I’d pay per view for that
Sounds lush us.