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Vote Now: The 2012 Kustom Airstrike

You’ve seen what went down in the Mentawais during this year’s Kustom Airstrike boat trip. Now it’s time for jury-duty. Voting has officially opened and you, the people, must decide who takes home the $50k for best aerial.

The four clips you see below ain’t the only ones you can vote on. There’s plenty more over at the Airstrike site (link at the bottom) – each man has four different entries. This is just a taste. Who do you think’ll be cashing the cheque?

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John Florence / Frontside Full Rotation Air-Reverse.

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Albee Layer / Backside Full Rotation Air-Reverse

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Ryan Callinan / Kerrupt Flip

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Chippa Wilson  / Frontside Stalefish Air-Reverse

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Matt Meola / Full Rotation Air-Reverse

Go vote at the Kustom Airstrike site, now.

Go vote at the Kustom Airstrike site, now.

Go vote at the Kustom Airstrike site, now.

Go vote at the Kustom Airstrike site, now.

40 comments so far...
1.

none are worth 50K-they should of left the airstrike as video entries from around the globe

2.

2 horse race between JJ and Cippa, but jj gets it for commitment and consistency and domination all round..

3.

I vote for Slater’s air in the final at Bells.

4.

I don’t know about the rest of you but i’m gonna go ahead and report the tool who wrote that “Chippa has a Dane-like quality”

5.

this is fucking stupid. do any of these guys really deserve 50k for doing any of these maneuvers?

1.

Weak sauce

2.

IS t hat the airs we have to vote on? Becuse there was way better airs than that in the vids I hope not gonna check the k site now I hope I am wrong cuz Albees chop hop air does not cut it.

3.

same shit different day!!

4.

this doesn’t really show how much JJF dominated the webisodes

5.

none are worth 50K-they should of left the airstrike as video entries from around the globe

6.

2 horse race between JJ and Cippa, but jj gets it for commitment and consistency and domination all round..

7.

Wake me up when it’s over.

8.

50k? Sheesh.

9.

No clean laning on the face or flats = no $50k. Matt Meola has as cool Hawaiian hippy vibe. Chippa has a Dane-like quality of the techincal want to watch stuff.. But JJF wins on the natural
power and superhigh airs landed and surfing the waves after like Chippa.

10.

GAY

11.

hmmmmmmmmmmm???

12.

I don’t know about the rest of you but i’m gonna go ahead and report the tool who wrote that “Chippa has a Dane-like quality”

13.

Why is it called a “full rotation air-reverse”??? Isn’t it just an air 360. Wtf is the reverse?

    14.

    thats a great point. There is a lot of inconsistency in surfing with respect to maneuvers. people call it a full rotation air reverse when it really should be called a frontside 360 air. same applies too “finners” “blow tails” and “tail wafts” there all same move as far as i can see… lets not even get involved with the frontside grab/ backside indy issues

15.

I vote for Slater’s air in the final at Bells.

16.

Full Rotation Air-Reverse?
If its a Full Rotation Air then your obviously not going to be coming in reverse.

    17.

    Very good Mame very good.

18.

what sort of board is chippa riding?

19.

Chippa spins 100 times faster than jjf and the grab is insane. He wins hands down

20.

i like Chippa’s…

21.

Chippa hands down.

22.

this is fucking stupid. do any of these guys really deserve 50k for doing any of these maneuvers?

23.

zoltan dorkos should win for that half kickflip he pulled.

24.

Chippa hands down with that sick ass full rotation late stalefish grab! JJ definitely owned every episode though! They should split the 50K!

25.

we should get a large troll group going to vote for ryan callinans lil alley oop. that wuld be f’ing claSSic if he won

26.

Shoots! There’s way more, sicker airs to check out on the Kustom site. JJ has a mean full rotation stalefish!

27.

- chippas stale-fish was legit,
- but theres only one person that deserves $50grand – and we all know who that is

28.

john john all day! that shit was huge!

29.

Kustom sucks, this is a sold out comp with only 5 guys!!? where’s Josh Kerr , Medina , Cory, Dion Agius, julian wilson etc etc etc. And they don’t even get the names on the rotations and grabs right. Oh and matt meola , can you say CHOKE ?!!!!!!

30.

JJ is the new best surfer in the world, airs like bruce back in the day but lands them, tubes like andy , and cooler than slater. He’s rising to the top

31.

This stupid concept has come home to roost. Clearly none of those airs was worth 50 grand. I already knew John John rips.

32.

they got a free surf trip and somehow getting paid an additional 50g’s? how far has surfing strayed…

    33.

    to #32 they had to pay their own way… and they risk injury and sometimes life..all to progress the sport of surfing..

34.

a reverse is named such as you spinning against the bottom turns flow.
forward 3s are named such as your momentum continues forward from the natural flow of surfing into a spinny. alley oops are forward spinnys done in the air. and are actually a 180
full rotor reverses are actually 540 spins.

35.

who cares. this is a total flog. please no one vote on this poop. bring on trestles.

36.

should give the 50k to some starving kids in africa for fucks sake. what a waste.

37.

$50,000?? What a waste of money. None of these dick heads need or deserve $50,000.

38.

ok guys, listen up – first off, there is only such thing as an air revers, no such thing as a full rotation air reverse, and no such thing as an ollie 180 to be called an air reverse, an air reverse is a full rotation 360 in the air. nothing else, i have been watching carefully. Chippa is the winner here, jj did a good attempt, but with a standard indy grab, which i have been doing since i was 4-6 years old. chippa took it that bit further and threw in a stalefish. which i could do when i was 16. it took me a fair few years to compklete. so , ultimatly. chippas throw was the hardest. as for maola, callinan and layer. well. i think we are all sick of seeing chop hops (ollie 180′s) and silly alley oops with an easy secure grab. ya ya some of the waves were kinda tall, with some steep sections, but its not about that…D

39.

1 – Chippa (whatta cool name)
2 – JJF (higher than any other)
3 – Matt… (best landing)
4 – …

40.

I Think the Full Battered Stalefish with chippas i had from the local chippa last night was a winner after i threw it into the bin with a reverse front grab full monty to follow

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