Watch: “Home Run” Ft. Jack Robinson Winning Margaret River

“I tell myself to enjoy the moment, easy to say, harder to do, but I’m home, been fishing all week, been having fun with my mates, and it showed in the performance.” – Jack Robinson

It’s been a minute since Jack Robinson beat John Florence to win his home event for the second time, and while Jack has since flown off to defend his Tahitian crown, and his Margaret River mates Jacob Willcox and Bronte Macaulay have returned to Challenger Series duties, their beery backers at Gage Roads have been busy pulling together Home Run, a zippy behind-the-scenes look at what happens when the big WSL caravan rolls into a small Australian country town.

Jack narrates this six-minute showcase of two fun weeks in West Oz and from shredding, fishing, and taking us for a walk down memory lane – the archival footage alone makes Home Run worth the price of admission – through to hoisting the trophy he’s a fascinating study, the awkward child star now flourishing as an engaging and self aware part-time shaman, full-time title threat, not to mention passionately proud husband and father. You love to see it. 

Chippo Willcox shines, trading blows with good mate and man of the moment George Pittar at the kind of red dirt and cobalt Indian reefbreak that defines the region. Blazing sun, clean air, filthy turns, slurping tubes? Sure. More fishing ensues, then more tubes, enough to make us feel an oversized twinge of regret that the thoroughbred barrel pig won’t be burying his snout in the Teahupo’o trough when it gets decidedly dastardly at the backend of this year’s waiting period. 

Back at the beach Bronte Macaulay wins the trials, pulls beers and catches no fish while giving us a sweet recap of her idyllic Gracetown childhood, before she too turns up the fury in the brine, all raucously soundtracked by pub rockers of the moment, The Beefs. Singer Sammy Smith’s cheeky Aussie twang and rowdy riffing, paired with cinematographic maestro Scotty Bauer’s stunning shots of local landscapes and the creatures residing within gives Home Run a Jack McCoy feel, paired perfectly with a pint of Single Fin.