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The surfing world needs Mikey Wright like the planet needs the French to combat global warming via the Paris Agreement. He makes you wanna find a Jimi Hendrix record, put it on a turntable, and turn up that volume till the windows shatter, walk outside and chop a mountain down with the edge of your hand. Yeah, his surfing is a breath of fresh air in the city of Beijing. And of course he made it through both his heats with high scores. Blitzing sections like they had done something to offend him. Jordy Smith showed up on day 4 of the event sick as a dog. But Jordy’s a big man, 6’3 to be exact, that’s about 13 feet taller than the average height of the other competitors, thus his competitors were too afraid to prey on his frailties. He casually made his way through his heat. A coupla hooks and a sneaky barrel was enough to swat the flies from the meat, and Jordy promptly headed home to recover. Rumour has it that Jack Freestone was once asked if he’d rather fight Ezekiel Lau or Ramzi Boukhiam, to which Jack replied, “Ezekiel Lau.” You see Mr […]