Conner Coffin's heavy-footed highlights - video

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Stu Nettle (stunet)
Swellnet Dispatch

Three contests into his maiden CT tour and young Conner Coffin is sitting just outside the top ten. He even spent a few weeks in second position, so all things considered Conner is having a stellar start. There appears little secret in his approach; don't overthink the heat strategy and when it's your time to ride blast the bejeesus out of the wave. It's a distilled version of comp surfing and it's immensely entertaining.

Here's Conner's latest clip, featuring a few waves from home, a few from Hawaii (freefall drop at 1:49 is sublime), and then a few from the road - Snapper, Bells, and Margs.

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Blowin Tuesday, 10 May 2016 at 11:51am

I'm such a fan of this guys surfing.

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Craig Tuesday, 10 May 2016 at 12:00pm

And to the soundtrack of BJM, so epic!

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OHV500 Tuesday, 10 May 2016 at 1:22pm

Hack-orama. awesome sauce !!

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zenagain Tuesday, 10 May 2016 at 1:29pm

Tubes and hacks, never get tired of tubes and hacks.

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Surfsnb Tuesday, 10 May 2016 at 3:47pm

Good to see young guys hacking instead of flapping.

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spencie Tuesday, 10 May 2016 at 3:56pm

All of the above!

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simba Tuesday, 10 May 2016 at 5:36pm

Top ten no worries,great style.

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chickenlips Tuesday, 10 May 2016 at 7:54pm

Sorry to do this here?! The WSL is dead! Kelly wins again!!!

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aaronwithadoublea Wednesday, 11 May 2016 at 8:39am

Reminds me of Julien,.. ability, style, looks.
Could be WSL new poster boy

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Island Bay Wednesday, 11 May 2016 at 8:56am

It'll be interesting to see him at JBay. Hopefully things click for him there, cause it could be beautiful to watch him on song in good JBay.

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Stinky Friday, 13 May 2016 at 5:51pm

Wow. Good to see great power surfing isn't dead.

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Person Friday, 13 May 2016 at 7:24pm

Absolute animal, couldn't keep my eyes off the buckets being blown off the top.

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BobC Saturday, 14 May 2016 at 6:50am

There was a great surfer named Jeff Hackman. Now we have Conner Hack man. He's one of those guys you could watch all day.

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southey Saturday, 14 May 2016 at 12:24pm

Was plenty to like and at times brutal on his forehand , backhand less so .