Images & Write Up – Ballito Pro Day 5

If at any point you decide to walk down the beach here at the Ballito Pro presented by Billabong, you will encounter the who’s who in professional surfing (besides the GOAT that is). You walk past coaches, parents of rising stars, filmers with lenses you could sell on Gumtree to put down a deposit on a small property in Muizenberg, sports psychologists, multiple boards and enough wax to last you for the next five years. And if you walk far enough, you’ll eventually come across Mikey February. No coaches, no film crew, no sports psychologists, just a simple umbrella to house him, his girlfriend, and his two boards. On his way to his heat he has to walk past the fan fair, the crazy whistling coaches, the team managers, the overhyped rising stars, the whole circus. But Mikey knows, all you need is two scoring waves in 30 minutes. And you don’t need no circus for that. And that’s exactly what he did. Two solid scoring rides to take out the great state of California’s rising star, Griffin Colapinto, and into the quarters he went.   Davey van Zyl was caught in the middle of a battle between two heavy […]