A second consecutive win for the Australian child prodigy who now moves into second on the tour ratings!
The Australian surf prodigy and London fashion icon Jack Robinson has dipped his head and snorted up a series of the world’s best surfers, including world champion Gabriel Medina and current world number one Filipe Toledo, at the Quiksilver Pro, G-Land.
It’s Jackie’s second consecutive tour win, and the third of his career.
One month ago, Jackie accounted for John John Florence using airs and a three-turn combo that cooked the two-time world champ and two-time winner of the Margaret River Pro like a hamburger on a griddle in the dying light.
Today, in pretty but inconsistent two-to-three-foot waves, Jackie used his granite physique and ferret reflexes to hump and belly dance around Toledo in a close final.
With four seconds left in the final, and needing more than a six-and-a-half, Jackie plunged the icepick to the hilt, scoring a seven.
“It’s crazy isn’t it, how unpredictable the ocean is,” said Jackie, who won his semi-final against Gabriel Medina in similar fashion.
In the women’s, Johanne Defay used skills honed on Indian Ocean reefs to out-surf Carissa Moore on G-Land’s glittery aprons. The win shifted Defay from eighth in the world to third.
Full report from JP Currie soonish.
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he johned john, he filly’d fil and he gabed gabe .. in kellyesque last second fashion. fkn trippy so far ..
Jack is the new John.
Judges handing it to Robinson again. Shame on WSL.
Glittery aprons ..etc.You’re flogging the horse far too hard DR and I fear that lip catipillar might be releasing air borne toxins right up your schnozz
Derek Rielly Trys To Fit An Entire Article Into a Headline To Avoid Writing An Entire Article.
The JP conundrum….. balancing a life with a thankless responsibility to tie all the disparate story lines of a failing tour together into something, anything entertaining.
He went to his well last time and came up with a full bucket of his vocation’s anectdotes. Where does he go from here? Maybe that’s why Chas chose to cover the ASP Euro tour from the distant periphery? Yeah, a good haircut is at least as entertaining as small french beach break. A coffee and choco croissant has to beat driving around all day hiking on to dunes and observing bad tides?
Maybe JP will drop some running stories. Various alcohols mixing to cut himself while cuddling with his mate on a sleep over because he forgot his sleeping bag type of shit? Dude is talented, so he can spin it anyway he wants and a play by play seems pointless.
Until the WSL gets out of it’s own way, you can type the stories months in advance.
I didn’t watch it, as I’ve made clear, but I’m going to refer to the size of the waves in ever-decreasing terms. Just a warning.
Not a Brazzo, but here’s my take.
Pip got underscored the whole event. That said, he got lucky in heat v Griff- who got underscored on his crazy high speed backdoor barrel wave.
Medina underscored a little bit in heat v. Robbo.
Jaddy too.
Italo deserved to lose & his style is gettin old on the eyes. Thought he would ha e cut out the 50 spaz pumps b4 every turn. Adriano finally did for the better & just in time before he got passed up by the Brazzo groms.
Never really understood this website. Derek it seems that you enjoy to poke fun at peoples personal lives such as Medinas break from come competition cause of a marriage break down and as you said “mental issues”. You say you are a journalist. Why don’t you actually do that? You are intelligent. Why don’t you investigate the amount of surfers that have mental issues and drug issues on the tour in an ethical and respectful way. Wont be easy but give it a go.
you new here?
Unfortunately no. Watched the demise of surf media and possibly to old for the site but what the hell may as well chip in and call a spade a spade.
True grasshopper, the death of the surf-mag–seemed to open the door to any ding-bat with a laptop–just look at the Inertia.
demise? Surf media was/is a thinly veiled veneer of Ad copy posing as editorial.
IF anything, even the worst blogs are better than the US print mediums.
I have a special spot in my heart for SWorld and Tracks had moments, but the US produced media was drivel at best.
Totally agree with you. When I say the demise it seems that the writers never want to really push the envelope of good writing as they piss off the advertisers of sorts. When I say good writing that does not mean actually bullying people. It means being a real journalist and giving the reader thought provoking info on a subject.
‘Journalists’ at BG?—Shirley you jest….
Surfers must not be too earnest. It’s in the rule book. It’s okay to care as long as you don’t care too much. Can’t wear it on your sleeve. So if BG were like Bono, it wouldn’t connect with most of their audience. There’s a book called The Drop that deals with surfing and addiction/mental illness.
A major fuck up by the judges again but hey who f cares anymore
I thought this was a surfing forum… I don’t give a shit about soccer.
Jack rips and has improved a lot the last couple years, but had a little assistance in all his 3 CT wins.
I’ve said it once and I say it again- JUICE! No way JR last wave was better than his 6.5. They know they need an Ozzie at trestles.
+maybe returning to world pro surf contests after long absence
and getting 3rd aint so bad?
DC: is/was your Dad a tv personality, a former pro surfer, and/or a gunslinger in the wild west? bless him!
Next G-Land Pro- 2047
under water?
The well-known ecologist and noted environmentalist, Dr Bex Vidina, says, “No way !”
plant more seaweed and more reefs? not that there’s anything wrong about that…what gets my goat is the WSL taking ownership of every spot they visit. so vain, they probably think the song is about them…
Ruthless exploitation in the hope that they’ll profit.
No different to the brands. Pack of cunts the lot of them.
Not in this millenium.
Its a scam, one of the biggest ever.
And very succesful for the high ups.
Onya plebs.
she wants a chess rematch…
Robbo will now be officially considered the saviour of Aussie pro surfing with expectations of a handful of world titles during his career.
Lets hope he can come through with it,unlike the last mega hyped Aussie child prodigy that achieved at least 80% less on tour than everyone thought he would and only had one serious dig at winning a world title in his career.
Won’t name names,suffice to say he had the handsome looks for a london male model catwalk event too.
Corgan Mibilic?
Nope.
Wulian Jilson.
Best technique on tour (at that time), but no animal in him. Too happy. No shot.
matt banting?
Batty Man’ting..
Competitive surfing is not just about world titles. Julian Wilson is a legend and a threat in any conditions. One of the wordls’s best regardless of not having a world title.
He has a stinkbug stance tho.
True.
I’m just saying for all the hype he was getting,he ended up pretty massively under achieving.
Taj Burrow never won a world title either,but was a way better competitor than JW,even without being as hard a charger in the heavy stuff.
Which he should’ve been coming from south west WA rather than the sunny coast in QLD.
found cheyne horan
Free stoner
in vw’s
Shane Herro?
I really like Jack’s surfing but his 3 event Wins plus the semi today he turned on the dying seconds with really close calls. I think WSL needs a New Aussie star to engage fans there.
If the surf back then had of been like it was for this event,no one would remember there ever were events there 25 years ago.
He also hasn’t thanked God yet. Apparently everything in Brazil is thanks to God.
Remember, “deus é brasileiro”
Amen!
That was an entertaining minute of reading Derek, thanks. Far more entertaining than the minute I watched the contest for.