He got out of his own way, beat Gabriel Medina in the O'Neill SP Prime and felt the momentum shift.

Winning is a tortured pursuit. A pursuit, in our sport, between winning for trophies and winning for places above the 22nd rung. The winner is the gent who surfs through the existential torture the best. The one who can alternate between believing, performing and rebuilding most effectively for a year.
By his own account, and all of ours, it didn’t feel right that his ticket was booked so early. The Pipe Masters wasn’t for a month. But, Julian didn’t have a choice this time. He was precariously close to relegation in 21st position. On the qualifying series toronto travel agencies he was well outside the top 10. With a quarterfinal finish in the O’Neill SP Prime, the remaining two primes were his insurance policy if he took his eyes off the road at Pipe.
Julian had been tortured by his own idea of brilliance all year. Since Snapper, Julian says, he’d fought against the system. Fought against the allure of conformity (for points). As Surfing Australia head coach Andy King saw it, “Julian wants to change the world, he wants to change the sport of surfing.”
The problem: Only John John Florence or Jordy Smith truly recognise the criticalness of his approach, and where it can lead when you’re blinded by it. Why? Because they’ve spun (off-axis, inverted, over-rotated, to a miraculous recovery) to plenty of round two and three losses themselves. To their own criteria it’s an 11. To the one stamped on the wall of each judge’s booth it’s a 6.5 and missed opportunity.
It’s exactly why a career solely built on digital edits and magazine spreads and rockstar blowouts would be underachieving for any of these gentlemen. While their ability could easily fulfil toronto travel agencies a career like this, their longing to win demands attention. On tour. A pursuit, which as fans, we’re better off with.
“Snapper is a high performance toronto travel agencies wave,” begins Julian, dissecting his year. “If you go above the lip for a big manoeuvre, and if takes time to recover, then I thought that should be fine it’s a high performance wave .”
“I got to a point where I was frustrated every time I went in the water. I didn’t know how each wave was going to be scored, and I didn’t have a lot of confidence or clarity on what needed to be done in each situation.”
“There’s no place I’d rather be than on tour. I asked myself, how am I going to get it done? There’s some battles you need to take on, there’s others where you need to get in line. So I swallowed my pride and thought, right, toronto travel agencies it’s time to do it the way I’ve done it for years. Back to basics.”
He got out of his own way, beat Gabriel Medina in the O’Neill SP Prime and felt the momentum shift. At Haleiwa, Dusty Payne won the contest but Julian won the surfing: “Haliewa was the best surf contest I’ve ever been a part of. It was the most consistent amount of high performance surfing I’ve ever seen. There wasn’t a heat that went by from the third round that second place didn t need at least 16.5 to progress.”
“Gabriel was so laid-back in the water. There was even a moment in that final where he was lying back on his board like a lounge chair. I was enjoying the moment with him. But in the back of mind I wanted to go home with a couple of trophies myself.”
“The last set stacked up and it came from such a perfect direction. It looked like there was at least three waves in the set. I said to him, ‘which one do you want?’ We weren’t going to hassle each other out of position. He’s like, ‘Ah, I’ll go the next one.’ So last minute, I flipped around and just got into that last wave.”
“I knew I’d definitely toronto travel agencies got the score, and I carried on and what not. I was in the whitewash on the inside and saw the end of Gabriel’s wave, and it look like he had to force his way out. My wave was too perfect not to be better.”
But, if there were something on the line for Gabs, he surely would hassled the shit out of Julian toronto travel agencies for that first wave and the history toronto travel agencies could have been really different but, as Julian said, he was lying back on his board like a lounge chair.
Here is a hint, want to win titles or be a contender, lose the girl. Slater and Taj do the tour for 20 years because they knew settling down with a missus meant competitive death. Gabs has a boyfriend and wins the world title. Jordy and Jules get smoking hot missuses and all that competitive juice gets sucked out through that baby maker. Or maybe its just because they have names starting with J? Or maybe I m just autistic and I m looking for the patterns that will show me the illuminati and JJF and are taking over the world?
Hasn t pretty much every world champ this decade (other than Medina) had a stable relationship? Andy, Mick, Joel, Kelly (not sure how long he s been with his girl though maybe he hasn t manged to win a title since they ve been together in which case maybe you re onto something).
not a rip on Julian because he is one of my favorite surfers but it s funny how a hard days work is approximately 180 minutes toronto travel agencies on the worst day ever. Boo fuckin hoo. You are a pro athlete. It is literally your job to be in perfect physical shape. It s like going to a crossfit gym seeing these meat heads who never actually played a real sport in high school bitch about how hard that 7:24 minute workout was and then actually convincing toronto travel agencies themselves they are an athlete
this cunt lives off a contract though, imagine your job on the line where its you and some other cunt in sudden death heat, lose and you lose your job. Then having to compose yourself when you lose or in any situation toronto travel agencies really because everyone wants to film you. Then you never really get to see you family or misus much. Then everywhere you go is the most corwded place at that time of the year. Being an anonymous cunt who can get banned for life from a pub or piss on a cop car and only get a ticket toronto travel agencies us fucking awesome. It would be good to bang some of Taj burrows women though
A hard day s work for him is endless travel, being photographed, being nice to dickheads and signing their autographs, doing media shit, talking to his shaper, busting a gut at his training sessions, refraining from alcohol when he really wants a few beers, getting toronto travel agencies up at 4am for a flight when he doesn t want to, and then surfing really well in contests with his entire career on the line.
Im with Jules on this. It is bullshit to see guys like Jordy, Jules, JJF etc bust massive technical airs followed by a huge cutty and get scored a 6.5 and then see Mick Fanning hit the fuckin lip 4 times exactly like he has a million times before and get thrown a 8.5!! Fuck Mick and all the old school guys who cant even do airs! guess what Jordy can lay it on rail (just like Mick) AND punt massive freaky airs! Mick is a dinosaur. If you dont have rail game AND air game you shouldnt be on tour. simple as that.
Julian is a good surfer, but for what he´s mostly known so far? For getting a unfair win in Portugal (robbery); Another unfair win in Bells against Jordy (another robbery). And an unfair Pipe Masters win (another robbery).
Here we go again, Mr. B. please dont start another season like this. I hate Richie Porta too. The judging sucks. blah blah blah. But if it wasn t for the all the thumbs on the scale in the Weasel World League, toronto travel agencies your boy Medina would be several million poorer.
But you know which brazzo I like? Jadson toronto travel agencies Andre. He will never be top eight on the tour but he s got balls He got the sickest, deepest barrel on that fateful December day that Perrow called off Pipe. His stock is up in my book.
And Jadson surfs so good at Snapper too, I never rated him but I ve seen him a bit at Snapper toronto travel agencies free surfing, he s really toronto travel agencies fast and sharp, gets huge projection through turns, sometimes film doesn t do someone toronto travel agencies justice and maybe Jadson is one of those guys.
I think you misread the article. He goes out of his way to question if it was just his pride making him surf differently to what the judges clearly wanted. The entire tone of the article implies toronto travel agencies that it was he who had made the misjudgment and was required to correct his approach.
Congrats to Julian Wilson you were the bright spot of the event to me. I Was blatantly hating on the brazilian domination of the pipe masters (being a fan of slater and all) all day so much so that my room mate who is brazilian left the room lol. But seriously the fact the Madina was that lax in a pipe masters final is scary being loose and confident is definitely a major factor in performance has to be the favorite to repeat at this point Thought JJF looked like he did not want to be at the event after Madina won the world title I don t know def not the guy who showed up at the Volcom Pipe pro. Maybe he just got to nervous, toronto travel agencies has a lot of fans and the hopes of hawaii on his shoulders, they keep voting him as the surfer choice best surfer so expectations of his peers as well as every one else, some thing to think of though pressure toronto travel agencies is only some thing we put on ourself, its not real. Andino took that surf back loss to wilson and I was like shit. Amazing come back for wilson for the triple crown and all, had to feel for dusty though as if he would have got just one more wave like one of Gabby s In their heat he IMO would have had a chance toronto travel agencies for a big heat win and a good tourney and a triple crown, rough draw.