To say that Haleiwa is a challenging wave is an understatement, but John John Florence has a knack for making some of the heaviest water in the world look like a canvass that offers him unlimited possibilities.
Fresh off a long overdue win at the Billabong Pipe Masters presented by Hydro Flask, Florence has been enjoying a recent run of swell on the North Shore. There were plenty of top-flight surfers out at Haleiwa, and they're now all in awe of a single ride of Florence's which has some suggesting it could be one of the best waves ever ridden out there.
Judge for yourself: Has anyone else ever done a turn quite like this one, on a wave so large and powerful?
To put this into perspective, that would be about as perfect as a turn gets if it was done on a playful four-foot pointbreak. That it was executed on a wave a shifty, powerful and unforgiving as Haleiwa just takes it to a whole new level.
WSL commentator Strider Wasilewski put it best when he said, of John John's wave, "Nobody is surfing this good right now! Sorry, I'm not sorry."
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John John Florence Offers Up A One-Wave Tutorial On How To Absolutely Rip Haleiwa
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To say that Haleiwa is a challenging wave is an understatement, but John John Florence has a knack for making some of the heaviest water in the world look like a canvass that offers him unlimited possibilities.
Fresh off a long overdue win at the Billabong Pipe Masters presented by Hydro Flask, Florence has been enjoying a recent run of swell on the North Shore. There were plenty of top-flight surfers out at Haleiwa, and they're now all in awe of a single ride of Florence's which has some suggesting it could be one of the best waves ever ridden out there.
Judge for yourself: Has anyone else ever done a turn quite like this one, on a wave so large and powerful?
To put this into perspective, that would be about as perfect as a turn gets if it was done on a playful four-foot pointbreak. That it was executed on a wave a shifty, powerful and unforgiving as Haleiwa just takes it to a whole new level.
WSL commentator Strider Wasilewski put it best when he said, of John John's wave, "Nobody is surfing this good right now! Sorry, I'm not sorry."
John John Florence
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