Watch: Asher Pacey // Up North, Out West
There's a small group of surfers, off the top off my head they include Rasta, Parko, and Asher Pacey, who risk having their skills underestimated simply 'cos they make it look too easy. Great technical surfers, each of them. They're agile, proficient, and easy on the eye - perhaps too easy.
This vid continues the theme with Asher stylishly playing the weighting game in and around the barrel, plus dashing end section slices, yet he bucks the trend at the 1 minute mark with a move that would confound WSL judges. Where does that fit into the criteria?
Stylish? Easy on the eye? It's questionable, but full marks for innovation.
Great camera work in this clip too. Thumbs up, Ryan Williams.
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Official surfing officials, Stup'e and his posse, long ago proved that twinnies are fucking ###** ***# well useless in the barrel, and banned them and all who surf them or say otherwise.
' They're very fast but are harder to control when the waves get bigger and suckier. Speaking of, they just plain suck in the barrel.'
https://www.swellnet.com/comment/477469
Getting pacey barrels up/out/north/west/south/east... who is the fool?
Prefer his frontside laybacks. That was more like something Jamie O'Brien would come up with.
Add Clay Marzo to that very short list.
This clip and the one of Rasta bodysurfing 1ft waves both show unusual talent and feel.
Great clip. Lovely style and pretty cool track to boot.
Seconded on Clay Marzo.
That's a cool edit. Thank you!
nice edit,. so even that joint is getting crowded now.
I’ve meant a lot of Euro surfers lately and that’s where they’ve all been or that’s where they’re going.
You know a joint is blown when hipsters and drones show up.
Just Euro's they are like the plague, and we all thought Brazilians were bad. The guy could ride a plank of wood and make it look good, which he does.
Am I ignorant of the pun with 'weighting game', Stu?
Love Asher's back foot stall to front foot drive when he sets up the pit.
More 'weighting' equals less 'waiting'.
Just ripe for a pun.