Aliotti like an asymmetrical a lotti. Photo: YouTube//Screenshot
Big waves with big walls are the ideal canvas for a stylish surfer to showcase their style. Style’s a funny thing in surfing, though. What makes a good one is hard to describe, but a good one is something nearly everyone agrees on. Style like Rob Machado’s, for example. Craig Anderson’s. Gerry Lopez’s. Much of it is making the difficult look easy, which William Aliotti does very well.
Fluidity, grace and power all wrapped up into something… stylish. That’s why speed, power, and flow is the name of the game, and although the WSL tries its damndest to assign numbers to those things, in all reality, they’re impossible to score. Aliotti has all of those elements in his surfing, and he found a perfect canvas at big and glassy Uluwatu recently. His chosen brush in the first two minutes of this clip from Surfers of Bali was a 5’5″ asymmetrical twinny, a type of surfboard he’s been dabbling with for a while now. It appears that the dabbling is paying off.
