As a North Shore native, Nathan Florence has seen and surfed a lot of good waves. So, when Florence claims that it was “a damn good day of surfing,” then you know it’s true.
“When you come back from an injury, you always want to come back stronger,” Florence says, on the road to recovery after a back injury. “So I picked something to focus on and that was my turns. We had some swell that day at Off the Wall, so it allowed me to get a ton of speed and then work on cutbacks and high speed carves.
“What I look at when I work on turns is how do I fix my bottom turn to come up into it with more speed and how do I come out of it with more speed? The coolest looking turns, in my opinion, like the turns that John [Florence] does, he comes super fast into them, holds the speed, and gains speed through them and out of them into the next maneuver. I’ve been trying to study him and work on that.”
In the above video, Florence shows off the turns he’s been working on in a really excellent day of surfing on the North Shore of Oahu.
