See Mason Ho's strong spine and Tom Curren's upright turns!
How about this? In six months, little Mason Ho, the kinetic kid who winks at life, baby boy of Michael, who Dane Reynolds calls “the king of stoney surfing”, will turn… thirty.
Tom Curren, meanwhile, father of style, three-time world champion, is well into his sixth decade.
A wave of reality just swooped over me. You?
Through the hourglass go the sands of time etc.
All of which makes this five-minute clip, made by their sponsor Rip Curl, with its almost ninety years of combined surf-expertise, quite the thing.
The story, such as it is, goes like this: Mason and Tom visit Japan. It begins relatively poor, in soft lefts, but the upright turns of Tom Curren and his ability to avoid any extraneous moment makes it shine.
The skateboarding of Mason tests the nerve. Like a shopping trolley pushed down a hill you wait for the inevitable wobble and fall.
The highlight, and it’s worth persisting for, is Mason’s fiendish layback tube. He climbs over the ledge, into the void and curves under the stairs, reclined as the door opens.
It’s at the four-ish minute mark, if you don’t want the mostly filler.
Music ain’t bad either. You might clap along with your hands.
