Comment live, Margaret River Pro, “John John Florence like Cleopatra …he makes hungry where most he satisfies!”

John sees something others don’t out there. Primarily the line drive off the bottom. He was the first guy to identify that very thin band of energy at the base of the wave, a fraction higher up than had traditionally been ridden as the correct place for a bottom turn. That would slingshot him high into the face without losing the speed and centrifugal force necessary for the high-speed arc he pioneered in 2015 and perfected in 2017. (Longtom)