Ahhhh, takes me back to the days of old! Vertical drops, huge, carving bottom turns and roundhouses off the lips. Life wasn't so "snappy" on single fins! These guys now are doing things we never thought possible! I grew up looking to Lopez, Ho, Rabbit, Ian Cairns, Thomson etc. to show the way. You guys of today are incredible and I salute you, and your style!
@@rumtum99 Evolution, indeed. Just as those guys I mentioned were so far ahead of Duke and company, especially equipment wise. Thanks for the kind words....
I am a 58 year old surfer from Morocco started to surf at age 8 and quit , then came back to this beautiful sport few years ago. For me , and opinions will differ, I can say without a doubt that JJ Florence is by far the most talented surfer I have ever seen, since Shaun Thomson (which I met in South Africa). his flow is just magic as if he is just part of the wave....PS I still surf my old Mark Richard 1979 single fin and it does great!
A couple of years ago I was having beers with my bro and we were watching Morning of the Earth. I got over-inspired and the following day I ordered a single fin board (a oneee!) from Adams Surfboards UK. Needless to say in my dreams I imagined I would be doing stuff like in this video. No man, this didn't happen. The reality is I am going straight along the wave and never in the right place at the right time to turn it properly. So much harder than it looks, props to the guys back in the day!
John I used to ride a Horan inspired double winged swallow tail single fin with a massive fin back in the 80's. That thing was absolute magic. Singles have a glide that is unparalleled. However - they are a real bear to pump up to speed and have a nasty habit of sliding out unexpectedly on steep drops. IMO the modern equipment is far superior in almost every way, except that glide, mmmmmm what a feeling! Enjoy, be positive setting the rail, dont slide out, it hurts. Greetings from Kommetjie Cape Town (we met once at the Green Room restaurant)
The barrels are fantastic too watch but it’s when he cuts deep into the wave and throws that huge what we call in water skiing a rooster 🐓 tail. Thing of beauty!!
JJF, mom Florence thank you 😃🤙 single looked awesome 😀 your moms right ,so when you finish with short boards then become a long board world champion that would be cool right..?
just beautiful!! not be so big that even in my imagination, I might be able to catch that wave… i’m also quite impressed with a very active surfer on a red board taking the left in most of the sequences!
Yo John i hope you see this comment, you know how random companies will get people to go over other people's footage. It would be really REALLLLLY cool to see gerry lopez watching this video and talking over it (keep the music in the background cuz its also awesome).
Cool story and waves but in all reality these boards are really not like the singles most of us grew up riding. These are still wafer thin and light by comparison to the old McCoys et al that were 3.1/4" thick and had 2-3 layers of heavy glass. Much harder to ride those boards back in the day. Would love to see guys like JJF give one of those oldies a go.
'Point and shoot' were my exact thoughts too. Also deeply love them. The hold in the barrel is like nothing else. Absolute dogs to turn at beach breaks though!
Deje vu still it's straight down then full bottom turn into the stall like kick the nose up till the the boards vert then it slaps down your dead stopped getting sucked up the face till you pop the fin and rail slide down getting spit ih yeah got the t shirt
Now go look back at Buttons.... Or Larry Bertleman..... You'll get a real appreciation for just how sick they were. The cutbacks they were doing in '77..... without leashes. The leash cup had not been invented yet..... neither had polyurethane....
@@CJ-bw2nm No.... A leash is a polyurethane cord.... epoxy is what they started using instead of resin with fiberglass..... The first leashed were bungee cords. Then polyurethane.... Maybe they're using epoxy for leashes now. But I doubt it..... But the real point was how fluid the cutbacks Buttons, Larry and Mark Liddell were doing in the mid to late 70's. The "no leashes" part was just for flavor.
how it works. U start learn and ride a single fin your first day of surfing ever. U ride a 6'0 pintail for 3 yrs in every condition. Than u change to tri fin. That is the secret. Your welcome.
excellent... perfect single fin fun + perfect old surf music. (mom's right)
Ahhhh, takes me back to the days of old! Vertical drops, huge, carving bottom turns and roundhouses off the lips. Life wasn't so "snappy" on single fins! These guys now are doing things we never thought possible! I grew up looking to Lopez, Ho, Rabbit, Ian Cairns, Thomson etc. to show the way. You guys of today are incredible and I salute you, and your style!
Without you and the boys you mentioned, surfing wouldn’t be what it is today. Evolution. Salute to you! 🤙🏼
@@rumtum99 Evolution, indeed. Just as those guys I mentioned were so far ahead of Duke and company, especially equipment wise. Thanks for the kind words....
And Cheyne
@@KawikaDowney Hell yeah, Cheyne! And Mark Richards!
standing on the shoulders of giants!
John gets more tubes in one morning than I do all year.
My whole life**
more than I have in a lifetime!!
Blondie is a bad ass surfer! Wonderful to see. Like those deep tube rides!!
Bwwwaaaaa!! That’s some sad truth bro 😂😂😂 but i guess that’s what happens when you’ve been surfing it almost everyday for 20+ years
@@settaylor1325 I mean he is the best in the world soo… shouldn’t compare my self to him ahaha
I like how stoked and surprised you mom was with the results “you should long board” lol great!!
John could get barrelled on an ironing board he is that good!!!🏄🤙
I think so. That’s very funny, and because there is a ring of truth in it
@2:45 John gets a WotW contender on a single 😂 and Ivan looks born for that board 🤙
I am a 58 year old surfer from Morocco started to surf at age 8 and quit , then came back to this beautiful sport few years ago. For me , and opinions will differ, I can say without a doubt that JJ Florence is by far the most talented surfer I have ever seen, since Shaun Thomson (which I met in South Africa). his flow is just magic as if he is just part of the wave....PS I still surf my old Mark Richard 1979 single fin and it does great!
Go and check Mickey February. You might like his style too 😉
@@maualfaro9244 will do. Thank you.
John John is very impressive. I love watching him also.
Nice work, I am from Nebraska, but surfing has always looked like such a fun and beautiful sport. This channel is amazing.
Meet a guy from Nebraska in Laguna, CA who moved there to surf. Teaches and works at a surf shop. Nice guy
Discovering "4-6 Foot" Surf in Nebraska / Ben Gravy
ruclips.net/video/Ul29yHxANp4/видео.html
Go get wet fool!!😃🤙
Iam in NE also watch all the surf contest and so many blogs 🐾
Ain't that far to Waco! (in the grand scheme of things!)
I feel old now! My first board was a single fin, my second a favorite was a Thruster channel bottom. But I dig the 60 sound track!
Smooooooooooth. The sound, the waves and the single fin Boards . Sweeeeet
A couple of years ago I was having beers with my bro and we were watching Morning of the Earth. I got over-inspired and the following day I ordered a single fin board (a oneee!) from Adams Surfboards UK. Needless to say in my dreams I imagined I would be doing stuff like in this video. No man, this didn't happen. The reality is I am going straight along the wave and never in the right place at the right time to turn it properly. So much harder than it looks, props to the guys back in the day!
Keep at it! Learning how to surf alternate equipment of all shapes, sizes, and fin set ups will improve your surfing no end
Ivan crushin
That was fun to watch 🙌🏽✨
I've forgotten what it was like to surf a single & after watching yourself John John 🤙I shall leave that experience 40 years in my past 👌
John I used to ride a Horan inspired double winged swallow tail single fin with a massive fin back in the 80's. That thing was absolute magic. Singles have a glide that is unparalleled. However - they are a real bear to pump up to speed and have a nasty habit of sliding out unexpectedly on steep drops. IMO the modern equipment is far superior in almost every way, except that glide, mmmmmm what a feeling! Enjoy, be positive setting the rail, dont slide out, it hurts. Greetings from Kommetjie Cape Town (we met once at the Green Room restaurant)
That's a classic. Clean lines. cheers
really nice John
Cutting through like butter, as usual!!! Beautiful, WOW. WOOHOO!!!!!!!! 😁🤠
Nathen should use the single fin more often!
Great video, thanks mate.
Brilliant!!
Love the music !!!
Jajajajajajaj it's a re-watch to the 10th power with this show,, next week prob another its so smooth to watch J Rocks styling its mind boggling.
The barrels are fantastic too watch but it’s when he cuts deep into the wave and throws that huge what we call in water skiing a rooster 🐓 tail. Thing of beauty!!
Brother Trifecta!
one of my buddies rides that same board just a lot shorter with a snubbed nose. He has a blast on it
Reminds me of my very first new board, had all the extras, channel bottom with a stinger swallowtail. lol, love those single fin lines .
sounds like a board whipped up by Ben Aipa?
@@krispewkrem3 no it was a New Zealand board shaper Roger Hall
"You think it's going to work?" Answered first wave. Yes!
🔥🔥🔥 As Usual !
Sweet beans .
Great music choice with this vid!
Amazing bro
you make it look so easyyyyy
Mom's rule!
You guys are the best
So sickkk brother!!!
song?
I think your brother really suited that blue board with those waves, I could watch 5 minutes of that.. throwing in the request! :D
JJF, mom Florence thank you 😃🤙 single looked awesome 😀 your moms right ,so when you finish with short boards then become a long board world champion that would be cool right..?
Well that was just a feel good edit ☺️👏🏼🤙🏼
YOU RIP MAN
Awesome :)
Magic single fin 🎩
Wicked surfing
just beautiful!!
not be so big that even in my imagination, I might be able to catch that wave…
i’m also quite impressed with a very active surfer on a red board taking the left in most of the sequences!
That’s his brother, Ivan Florence
@@samgaunt9323 🤣🤣🤣 THAT is frikkin awesome! thanks Sam
@@waynefay8210 The surfer on the blue board (at 1.15 and other times) is their other brother Nathan Florence.
Nice! Whose music?
The tail pad made it seem JJF was riding a 5'4" sawn-off haha.
what the evolution of this? longboarding in the barrel walking the nose and high five the wave.......🤯🤯😵💫
Nominating JJF for the next Stab electric acid test.
Meu Deux JJ, isso é impressionante, incrível 🤙🏽🤙🏽
So sick
Ivan AKA mr cool has spent some time on single fins by the looks!
10/10 on those carves😂😂😂
What song is this? It's so dope!
Dang looks like it worked pretty well for you! Maybe should have rode that in the pipe contest haha
Single fin is the way to go; only kind I ride :)
Good Call Mom!!! ;)))))
Dawn patrol for the win.
ooooo i want one
Jerry must be proud.
Epic
Cool
Unbelievable. Next step alais, It will also make it look easy
Now on a twin!
Ivan for Mayor
Swallows work good on single fins.
I don’t know what the Florence brothers took, blue pill or red pill? But whatever, i want that pill 😂
You should start longboarding, which I doubt you don’t already do, and post a couple vids, JJF x Log Raps !!
Johnny could surf a sack of potatoes!
I don't understand how he made the last one 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
Yo John i hope you see this comment, you know how random companies will get people to go over other people's footage. It would be really REALLLLLY cool to see gerry lopez watching this video and talking over it (keep the music in the background cuz its also awesome).
Oohh yeah okay
no 20 minute NFT pitch?????🙏
Anyone know the song??
Dream
The boards under my house don’t float anymore
Cool story and waves but in all reality these boards are really not like the singles most of us grew up riding. These are still wafer thin and light by comparison to the old McCoys et al that were 3.1/4" thick and had 2-3 layers of heavy glass. Much harder to ride those boards back in the day. Would love to see guys like JJF give one of those oldies a go.
You consult with Mason for this soundtrack???
Point and shoot 🚩🚩🚩
♾❤️💛💚✨🙏🏽✨💚💛❤️♾
🌺🌺🌺 SOUL PATROL 🌺🌺🌺
I love single fins. Point and shoot big fat carve into the pocket point and shoot
'Point and shoot' were my exact thoughts too. Also deeply love them. The hold in the barrel is like nothing else. Absolute dogs to turn at beach breaks though!
“Single Fins…” I thought they meant sharks 😊
Honestly, i can't tell the difference between 1 or 10 fins
Surely the single fin video should be followed by a twin fin video? 😉
🦆🦆🦆🦆
John gets like 20 barrels a sesh I get 1 barrel in my life
Deje vu still it's straight down then full bottom turn into the stall like kick the nose up till the the boards vert then it slaps down your dead stopped getting sucked up the face till you pop the fin and rail slide down getting spit ih yeah got the t shirt
: )
And to think I would be scared just to stand on the sand and watch it. And hes single finning!?
Cream
Post a longboarding video
Single fins are great for tube riding! Not very good for much else.............There's a reason we switched to thrusters!
Freak could ride anything
Who is jamming?
JOHN JOHN WIN PENICHE SUPERTUBOS PORTUGAL🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻🏄🏻🏄🏻🏄🏻🏄🏻♂🏄🏻♂
nice video, next step: go finless
Now go look back at Buttons.... Or Larry Bertleman..... You'll get a real appreciation for just how sick they were. The cutbacks they were doing in '77..... without leashes. The leash cup had not been invented yet..... neither had polyurethane....
I think you mean epoxy, pu boards have been around for a bit
@@CJ-bw2nm
No.... A leash is a polyurethane cord.... epoxy is what they started using instead of resin with fiberglass.....
The first leashed were bungee cords. Then polyurethane....
Maybe they're using epoxy for leashes now. But I doubt it.....
But the real point was how fluid the cutbacks Buttons, Larry and Mark Liddell were doing in the mid to late 70's.
The "no leashes" part was just for flavor.
how it works. U start learn and ride a single fin your first day of surfing ever. U ride a 6'0 pintail for 3 yrs in every condition. Than u change to tri fin. That is the secret. Your welcome.
bruh Ukraine on deaths door and u Single Finning at pipe?!
drop is so slow