John John Florence does not release anything onto his YouTube channel that isn’t good. Carefully curated, wonderfully shot, and painstakingly edited, the world champion’s cuts are far better than most other surf clips. His most recent post follows him between World Surf League events in Newcastle, Narrabeen, and Margaret River, which happened throughout the months of April and the beginning of May.
The Australian leg was a Brazilian affair, with the events won by Italo Ferreira, Gabriel Medina, and Filipe Toledo respectively, but the results aren’t the only interesting things about a surf contest. It wasn’t the greatest of runs for John — a ninth at Newcastle, a seventeenth at Narrabeen, and a busted knee at Margs. In Florence’s latest, Back to Oz 2021, we see ten minutes of the other interesting bits.
