Brothers Ivan and Nathan Florence solo sesh
heavy wave in, now, where you think this is? Ireland?
Scotland?
Brothers Ivan and Nathan Florence set
internet on fire with “eerie” big wave session in unnamed
country!
By Derek Rielly
The sort of waves that make something nasty well-up
in your throat!
The two younger Florence brothers, Nathan andIvan, have stuffed their
burned-out rods into another battery of big waves, this
time at unnamed reefs in an unnamed country that has left the
internet sizzling.
Watch as Waterman of the Year Nathan
Florence enters wavesat such an angle he comes down vertically
with acceleration produced by sheer gravity, the wave hissing and
whizzing all around. The moments are captured on land and on a
little POV camera.
Ivan, meanwhile, has all the big-dicked quiet machismo of a
Laird Hamilton although
the attention his surfing brings seems to fit like an ill-fitting
suit. His edginess has gifted him a sponsorship with big brother
John’s company Florence, but that don’t mean he has to bend or
change or be faux-interesting to suit anybody.
Lift the eyebrows, twitch the Tom Selleck lookalike moustache,
shake the head.
Ivan knows all the audience needs is the shock wave of pleasure
from the thrill of his tube riding, which he delivers at a lefthand
reef .
There are plenty of hard motherfuckers around but they all
dick-soft compared to the Florences.
Essential.
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Surf film masterminds release Stephanie
Gilmore-Tom Curren-Mason Ho instant classic!
By Derek Rielly
Put on your rubber gloves and submerge your fist in
this jar of goo!
The surf film duo Vaughan Blakey, writer, and Nick
Pollet, editor, are the masters of frank, intimate and revealing
portraits of international surfing celebrities.
They are funded by Rip Curl and only feature that company’s
riders but with each queen fabulous, who’s to argue?
Earlier, Postcards from Morgs – a film on the one-time world
title contender Morgan Cibilic prior to his catastrophic failure to
re-qualify for the tour.
Today, Lazer Breathing Dragons, a title inspired by a drawing by
Vaughan’s son Milo when he was eight and starring Stephanie
Gilmore, Mason Ho and Tom Curren.
Sixty-year-old Tom Curren brought only a quiver of
high-performance surfboards made for Joao Chianca and was
“hell-bent”, says Vaughan, to surf just like the frenetic
Brazilian.
“Tom goes, ‘I like how he’s here and then here there. I just
wanna be able to go from here to here right now.’ No one would
believe the most patient surfer in the world wants to surf like the
most frenzied. He loved the instant nature of Joao’s A to B. There
really is no space in between.”
The Gilmore sequence is cut to the Divinyl’s All the Boys in
Town and is a cum dump impossible to ignore as it drips from your
pink-brown hole.
Essential.
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“Ferry waves, Three to five [feet], light
winds, perfect conditions. If this spot was on Surfline, it would
have gone good to epic.”
New Jersey vlogger Ben Gravy makes history
after surfing “biggest and best ferry wave in the world!”
By Derek Rielly
“If this spot was on Surfline, it would have gone
good to epic.”
The New Jersey vlogger, reformed booze artist and
high-end intermediate surfer Ben Gravy has created history, of some
sort, after riding what calls “the biggest and best ferrywave I’ve ever seen. It’s a Disneyland for
adults!”
Thirty-five-year-old Ben Gravy’s themes are positivity and an
everyman vibe. If I can do it, you can sorta thing.
Ben Gravy is just short of six feet, he weighs one hundred and
fifty pounds, eats once a day and gets his nourishment essentially
from soft drinks.
“Cruising on my eight-footer, just absolutely enjoying the
beautiful glassy Pacific Northwestern bay,” says Gravy after
successful completion of the mission. “Ferry waves, Three to five,
light winds, perfect conditions. If this spot was on Surfline, it
would have gone good to epic.”
See to believe!
And here’s Zeke’s take on the event.
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Nathan Florence makes universal sign of
delight with his wrist while carrying world champ brother John John
to winner's podium.
Nathan Florence posts extraordinary
behind-the-scenes video of brother John John’s world title win
By Derek Rielly
Wild booing, baby Darwin on site, the crowd a sea
of golden Florence hats!
The more said about the three fabulous Florence
brothers, John John, Nathan and Ivan, the better, I
think.
Raised by a single mom, the equally fabulous Jersey Girl Alex,
who left her east coast Christian community in 1986 to chase the
North Shore dream on Oahu, the trio, although mostly John John and
Nathan, have conquered,
pro surfing, free surfing, vlogging and, lately, singlehandedly
brought a modicum of cool back to surf wear, although that may just
be the handiwork of Florence’s behind-the-scenes wizard, Pat
O’Connell.
In this video posted by Dirk and Natasha Ziff’s successor as
waterman of the year, Nathan Florence, we go behind the scenes of
John John Florence’s third world title, which was one almost one
month ago in small waves at Lower Trestles in San Clemente.
Many takeaways moments, as you’d expect, you’ll see little baby
Darwin being cradled in his smiling mama’s arms as John John
readies to do battle with wild-eyed Italo Ferreira; the crowd
booing like hell when Italo gets a seven for a partially completed
air and the relief on John John’s face when he completes the
necessary gymnastics to take title three.
And, ever aware of the power of promotion, Nathan Florence was
quick to point out the value of having Florence hats and tees
wrapped around half the crowd.
“He’s had three of these big title wins, and they’re all special
in their own way, but it just felt like this year, having a full
healthy year with no injuries. On top of it all, we’re running our
own company, wearing our own gear. He’s got Florence on the back of
his jersey, there’s a big crowd of people on the beach, all wearing
Florence, screaming their heads off. Very very special.”
Essential.
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"I almost felt like I didn’t want to put the
vid out. I put a ton of pressure on myself to catch a good one. I
really wanted to do it. I wanted to paddle a legit one at The Right
and I totally failed. I tried for three hours and I just couldn’t
get it done. The speed of it, the shifting of it, it was a lot of
going on out there."
Waterman of the year Nathan Florence admits
to “shame and embarrassment” in rare big-wave fail
By Derek Rielly
"The pressure of all that water at depth hits and
it feels like your eyes are getting sucked into the back of your
head.”
The joint is heavier than you might believe. Mark Mathews
describes getting belted thus,
“If you fall on one that is coming out of the south, it pushes
off what feels like a waterfall, but you’re underwater already.
You’re getting smashed around in a wave like you normally do and
then all of a sudden it’s like you’ve been dropped off a cliff. The
pressure of all that water at depth hits and it feels like your
eyes are getting sucked into the back of your head.”
Florence, who is a thirty-year-old Gemini and married to the
daughter of Hawaiian muscle god Kai Garcia aka Kaiborg, said he’d
been thinking of paddling The Right for the past three years and
had commanded his shaper Jon Pyzel to make two boards specific for
the task.
On the morning of the attempt he told viewers,
“This year I committed myself to really wanted to do it,
actively tracking swells. I missed two swells while I was chasing
other swells. And, now I have the opportunity tomorrow to do
something that hasn’t been done yet. Bodyboarders have paddled
waves out there and I get inspiration from them. But I don’t think
anyone’s done it on a standup.”
Hard cut to Nathan Florence,
almost in tears.
“Okay, well, you saw guys saw the video. Pretty unsuccessful,”
says Florence. “We’ve had sessions in the past, you know how we do
with the channel, pretty much every session we put up, whether we
barely made the paddle out or never caught a wave. Or, we caught a
bunch of good ones or had the ride of our lives.”
Pause.
“But this one is a little different. I almost felt like I didn’t
want to put the vid out. I put a ton of pressure on myself to catch
a good one. I really wanted to do it. I wanted to paddle a legit
one at The Right and I totally failed. I tried for three hours and
I just couldn’t get it done. The speed of it, the shifting of it,
it was a lot of going on out there.
“I watched so much footage of it and I thought I can do it for
sure and I can do it. It’s just going to take ht right day, right
swell. I’m a huge believer in the more times you put yourself in
front of opportunity to ride one, the higher the chance of actually
doing it. The way of your life, that’s over a lifetime of putting
yourself in a situation to ride a wave when it comes.”
