Mason Ho, sharing is caring at Lowers, CA
“It might’ve got the record for most crowded day ever out there,” says photographer James ‘Jimmicane’ Wilson of the daytime shift yesterday at Lowers, California. “You had to share waves if you wanted to get a few turns in.” And there ain’t many men around who are better at sharing waves than young Hawaiian prince, Mason Ho. Here’s an excerpt from a Stab Sportswriter piece, scribed back when Mason was just 20 (he’s 25 this year): The Sportswriter: Do you like to see who your victim might be? Mason: Not really. My theory is that I just don’t look back so I always end up burning my friends and my Dad and my Uncle and my Sister. What line do you take; obviously dropping straight down the face would result in a collision? Frick, you draw a higher line where you’re going extra fast and then you get the bigger, high-speed manoeuvre right in front of their face. Are some surfers good sports? Does the man or woman behind ever hoot your theatrics? It used to happen all the time when I was younger. But, I haven’t had one for a while because I got good at burning guys. See answer number two? See the sequence here? Five years on and nothing’s changed. Don’t y’just love the kid?
“It might’ve got the record for most crowded day ever out there,” says photographer James ‘Jimmicane’ Wilson of the daytime shift yesterday at Lowers, California. “You had to share waves if you wanted to get a few turns in.”
And there ain’t many men around who are better at sharing waves than young Hawaiian prince, Mason Ho. Here’s an excerpt from a Stab Sportswriter piece, scribed back when Mason was just 20 (he’s 25 this year):
The Sportswriter: Do you like to see who your victim might be?
Mason: Not really. My theory is that I just don’t look back so I always end up burning my friends and my Dad and my Uncle and my Sister.
What line do you take; obviously dropping straight down the face would result in a collision? Frick, you draw a higher line where you’re going extra fast and then you get the bigger, high-speed manoeuvre right in front of their face.
Are some surfers good sports? Does the man or woman behind ever hoot your theatrics? It used to happen all the time when I was younger. But, I haven’t had one for a while because I got good at burning guys.
See answer number two? See the sequence here? Five years on and nothing’s changed. Don’t y’just love the kid?
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