A thirteen-minute documentary on the rich life of Ms Coco Ho…
What a wave of class Miss Coco Ho, sister of Mason, niece of Dez, daughter of Mike, is. In this very good thirteen-minute documentary, which was made by her sponsor Volcom, the torso-whiplashing, fin-throwing twenty-seven-year-old impresses the viewer with her…mmmm… spirit, yes?
“Sassy,” Stephanie Gilmore calls it, but says Coco still needs to harness her “inner bitch.”
John John Florence says watching her qualify at seventeen, and then finish that first orbit as the rookie of the year, inspired him to lift his own game.
Coco’s career has been a pinball, from fourth in 2009, to a pretty ordinary last four years: twelfth, eleventh, thirteenth, fourteenth.
“There were moments when I hated the tour,” says Coco. “I took it for granted. (And) I was distracted… distracted by what I didn’t have. I had a good childhood but I didn’t experience everything. I never had a boyfriend. And then the universe gives you something… my first love… that was the rebirth of me.”
A little history about the Ho’s, for context.
Coco’s dad, the former pro surfer Mike, was 30 years old and on his last tour circuit when his girl, Brian, a Caucasian American, became pregnant with Coco’s brother Mason.
Coco’s grandfather, Mike’s dad, was pure Chinese. His grandmother pure Hawaiian. Mike’s mom, Coco’s paternal grandma, was from Oregon.
Mike had bought land up there at Backyards, Sunset, and a small house was constructed. The marriage broke up after the birth of Coco, two years later. And soon, the jokester and former-pro surfer was in the serious biz of being a single parent to two kids. “I was ‘fun dad,’” Mike says. “I’m like, ‘Surf is good, let’s go surfing. Okay, no school today.’ Yeah, I was bad. I was a bad, fun dad.”
Unless it was Pipe. “‘Go to school. Dad’s going to surf Pipe today.’”
Try and fight that DNA. Watch here.
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That overbite should have been fixed by now.
She rips, but her surfing isn’t really any different than it was 10 years ago. She’s not as powerful as Tyler or as flowing as Steph or at creative as Carissa. Sally and Lakey have more drive. She should be around the top 10 still, but no world title is coming her way.
one of the best ladies on a shortboard, she gets a pass for participating in the angst that is a wave pool.
Coco and John John should get married married and have babies babies!!
Twins called Ho Ho and Flo Flo
I lked your original reply “maybe twin Finns” even better!
Yeah but I needed an Irish descendant for ho or flo .
Dawww, I loved that.
Also, the marketing worked because I totally want the bikini in the opening barrel shot. Heh.
Coco yelled at me at snapper like 3 years ago. She was dead set sitting stationary in the middle of a cute little Marlie peeler and might’ve copped some droplets from a (probably piss weak) turn of mine; she was most upset. Cool video, still lil bit annoyed.
One of my top favorite surfers on the women’s tour – along with Steph Gilmoure and Malia Manuel
You forgot to call them “Hawaiian royalty”!
Steph did it for him 😉
I didn’t watch it, but I’m glad someone said it, it has to be said, that Ho family is real Hawaiian royalty!
I want to be sarcastic… but I can’t. Such a genuine, cool surfer, who deserves more than what she has got. Got shake that title race up!
Stylish and technically wonderful surfer ,would be a world title contender if she was tall like Steph or had Caroline Marks’ Quadriceps.
Can all Caucasian American males fall pregnant or is Brian just an unusual case?
Make america great again!
It was Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys, he had a breakdown shortly after the pregnancy rumour has it.
I am BRIAN and so is my Wife !
I loved it. I’m a huge fan of Coco and the perspective of the movie is true: it’s not uncommon for her to get a 9 point wave but still not advance for a lack of a decent second wave. She is an awesome surfer, she just needs to see herself as the champion that her first and last names imply.
Those frontside fin-throws are something, too.
I always watch her heats like, oh godddd she’s so good, why is she losing this heat, nooooo.