Mick Fanning shoots a little to the breeze, VIC

“Look at this guy,” says photographer Ryan Miller, who delivered us the sequence of Mick Fanning you see here. “How do you not pick this motherfucker for a winner. Waves were shit this morning early and he was absolutely hammering everything that came his way.”

And, how is that he was all over every good wave that come through when pups like John John Florence and Kolohe Andino were in the lineup? Mick waits his turn, simple as that. “I had to wait in line behind Sunny Garcia, Luke Egan and those guys when I first got on tour,” says Mick. Now, it’s his turn.