Pre-season with Jordy Smith - video
Judged on clips alone I rank Jordy Smith as the best comp surfer in the world. Which is why at this time each year I have high hopes for the big fella...till he implodes, gets caught needing a five, forgets to catch a wave, then takes an airswing at his board. After eight years on the CT ol' Jordy still doesn't quite have the business end locked down. Still, the optimism is infectious and this clip does nothing to curb it.
Jordy Smith showing fine pre-season form in Mozambique and Durban.
Comments
To me Jordy is the Shane Watson of surfing - huge talent but rarely delivers. Or delivers when it doesn't count. Frustrating as you know he's got it in him.
Just spent 2&1/2 months in South Africa. I can highly recommend the place for a surf tourist. Exchange rate awesome, waves smokin, scenery amazing. Plenty to do when the waves are flat too.
Price of a brand new board is $350 AUD so you dont even need to take a stick with you. Beer, $1 bottle.
Goin back for shiz.
Or did I just do a Ripcurl and expose a secret spot (country)... Hmmm...
wow at some of the turns on that pink/red board
Hopefully he brings that boards and those turns with him to Snapper.
Man, some crazy turns and wraps there!
I agree Stu, the power, the flips and the explosion he has the lot. Always love watching his clips. It is interesting to contrast him to Gabby. Watched a clip of Gabby's the other day and they guy is technically brilliant, but aside from his airs he is ho, hum compared to Jordy.
Turn at 3min mark is ridiculous...talented bugger!
Have to have one of the best bottom turns in the business. Love Jordys surfing- speed, power, flow.
Check.
Yeah well summed up Stu, 100% agree. You'd have to back him in.......again
Yeah. love Jordy's surfing and want to see him do well. It's him, style and power, or Owen Wright, style and balls of steel, that I would like to see world champs. No sure that this clips shows him at his best, when the last clip I saw of him had him coming out of a long barrel and followed up with the biggest punt I think I have ever seen landed, but yeah, power.
Call me whatever you want, the brazzos can surf but by god, style doesn't seem to be in their vocabulary.
Which when you think about the women from Brazil, who sort of hold a mortgage on style, just doesn't make sense.
OK, first to call me a me a racist wins a prize.