Watch: John John Florence // 'Here'
Late last week, John John released his latest edit. Unlike many of his other edits, which wrap themselves around particular themes or places, the best of which is the incomparable 'Maps Of Home', 'Here' is a montage of short-record moments, not all of which happen in the surf, and none of which are recent - it was all filmed last North Shore season.
Still, it's John John doing John John things and that's reason enough to click aboard.
If you want to see something a touch more recent here's video of JJF at Sunset Beach yesterday morning.
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He is easy to watch. Nice cameos by the brothers. That sandbar double up footage was nuts.
Bloody Hell! Looking so strong and any injury niggles clearly long gone. As an aside, do you think Fearlipe looks at John's edits and wonders why the f he would want to come back? This is what a real world champ looks like
John is the real deal!
Fuck that is good! Wonder is John helps with the edit - seen him with a camera a few times. Ivan clearly has a different father based on his relative density of body hair. Not that it matters their life has always been one to envy (I remember seeing the whole fam on the north shore when I lived there in the 00s)
Ivan Kilmister :-]
Mom - what a babe!
oh my god that full wrap cutty to rebound in the Insta clip, just after the tube.. you love to see it. Imo one of the best manoeuvres, made sweeter if the surfer has read the wave so well they get more sections later (rather than it being performed and the wave runs away from them). HOOWEE!
Watched this on the tv this morning, seeing it on a bigger screen and not on your phone lets you see the little things he does that are just mind blowing. He’s so far on a different level to anyone else it’s ridiculous.
On a pumping day at Pipe he’d get more incredible tubes than anyone would get in their life.
It’s only a 3 to 4 second bit of footage, but I thought the grab starting at 12:18 when the bloke on the back of the jetski swings his arm to usher along the big tube spit was pretty cool
Genuine question here. Is John John the greatest surfer of all time? World title numbers aside? For me it’s an easy yes. Zero weaknesses and impeccable style.
Yes
Yes for me.
Yes .
yes with a large gap to 2nd
Where do you see Kellys weeknesses ? or areas in his style he needed to work on ? im talking about when he was in same age bracket as JJ today .
Work at a little surfboard shop for extra $ on a Saturday. A month back flicked through a bunch of old dvds and put on Kelly v irons 2003 pipe final. Kelly reads a wave so well but Andy’s style was better. Andy won and Kelly cried.
To your point John’s more comfortable in big waves than anyone on tour, his turns are smoother and bigger than Kelly’s ever were. He holds a rail longer and transitions between turns better than Kelly. Oh yeah the airs are better and his not a narcissist. Enough?
Kelly’s big weakness has always been Sunset and deep water waves in general. John John and Andy have done amazing things out there that Kelly hasn’t come close to.
Andy.
And several others with vastly better style than jjf, imho.
Yes, he's fucken good, but not the Messiah.
AI over Kelly all day. John John seems to me to be an evolution of Andy in a lot of ways, albeit without the personality.
Controversial maybe, but I’d say peak Bruce is right up there too. Some of his old video parts like Campaign 1 and Bruce Movie are still incredible.
I know it’s pointless to even mention it but imagine Jonny and Andy going toe to toe in pumping waves.
That would be as good as it gets.
Andy in the right mind was amazing and a competitive beast. He got Kelly out of his hiatus and then beat him. In a different life though imo if he saw John’s massive top turn (hack) he’d be blown away and proud.
Shout out to the filmers and the gear. These John clips are always next level quality, crispy. Of course the nuts surfing helps too. Those double up popups on the sandbar are bonkers, so close to nailing them.
Best edit going atm