There ain't a wave on earth that would make Nathan "Nasty" Florence wet-stain the front of his red bunny pyjamas.
Not even six months ago, Nathan Florence whom BeachGrit has correctly, I think, dubbed “the world’s smartest surfer”, he reads, can assemble a cohesive sentence or two together etc, was being rushed to a Maui hozzy by Kai Lenny after a wipeout that snapped a vertebrae in his spine.
Nathan “Nasty” Florence, middle bro to the elder and various serious John and little-y Ivan, said it was his new-found love of pressing metal in male-only gymnasiums, his monster glutes and quadriceps/hams building a fortress of muscle around his lower spine, that had saved him from a life in a chair.
Now, the boy with yellow-tinted eyes who fears nothing ’cause there ain’t a wave on earth that would make him wet-stain the front of his red bunny pyjamas, has finally released his three-month old POV footage from Shark Island, a short drive south of the Sydney CBD.
Shark Island, of course, is home to local legend Ronnie “Skull” Hill who rides a home-made jetboard through the lineup, scooping up waves from outside and deep on the reef, before riding to glory.
Although unseen on this magical day, Nathan’s cameo quickly fills the gaps, his ferret-like reflexes raising the bar of what is, and isn’t possible, at Shark Island.