J BAY

It’s been a few years since we’ve been back to South Africa. We had such a fun couple of weeks surfing in this part of the world!
Surfers featured: ‪@NathanFlorence‬, Ivan Florence, Alex Florence, Lauryn Florence, Frank Solomon, Jordy Smith, Kelly Slater
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[@crf5370]

The Florence family legends of surfing and ambassadors of aloha🤙🏽🤙🏽

[@r.d.thomas5253]

💯❤👍🤙🤙Inspiration of spirit, soul, & warmth ...great music to this and Much Aloha to the Florence family...Positives in Positives out!!!!

[@LucyKivell-tb8kt]

The photography skills are just amazing in this video. 🤩🤩🤩

[@apeman2981]

This makes me miss home (RSA) but Nate inspired me to start surfing again here in Scotland and JJF inspires me to continue to be humble despite being subject to clear injustice. Thank you JJF for providing joy in this world. All the best for the rest of the tour and beyond.

[@neilguy1222]

another best edit by the team so much better than a lot of other surf bloggers

[@schnitty_NSBR]

Mate the way you have kept your composure and just kept enjoying life after clearly getting robbed has made so many people respect you even more, keep doing what you do John 🤙🤙

[@schnitty_NSBR]

Aloha RSR, NSBR 4L@@RSR_1229

[@WjB_96792]

NSBR for life!

[@NthSennyBoardRiders]

@@WjB_96792 Hell yeah legends NSBR 4 Life

[@WjB_96792]

@@NthSennyBoardRiders onya lej!

[@ChickenJoe-tq6xd]

@@NthSennyBoardRidersnth senny brah

[@KobieD]

Hey John. Thanks for taking us along with you and your fam to Africa.. I could literally watch you surf 24/7. Truly mesmerising and absolute fucking class! I really appreciate the raw vision of you and your crew just being yourselves. You all are so lucky to have a tight af clan bound by love. Btw I really wish the white 🚩Florence caps were back in stock.. at least for us test pilots 😉🚩 Can’t wait to see what the future holds…

[@marcvince1261]

John Jedi Florence! So much speed through the turns with a unique style. Power and style like a Jedi!

[@apollineterrier5166]

Love just transpires through this video. Looks like JJF has a rich yet calm inner life. Great editing and sound mixing.

[@WavesoftheWorld]

This is so good great job boys

[@sampaulsen6340]

Put this type of video out once a week/every other week and have some fun on the slab tour

[@danaronowicz635]

Make more of these please, it's just a delight!

[@WjB_96792]

John your mom rips! So graceful! I can see where u guys get it from!

[@Live2Surf]

Our thoughts, ideas and actions can have a positive affect on the world when we are given the opportunity and the platform . To share personal time with friends family and viewers is really great to see! Even better than surfing. Well, similar-they are forever part of our lives!! Epic

[@cory_hugs7850]

Storing memories in the bank 🤙🏼 family time is the best 🙌🏼

[@livid_experience]

This is basically a short film. One of your best videos yet, editing on point as usual, music on point as usual. But something just felt so cool and narrative about this one. Edited to add: Idk about anyone else, but I'm ready for John's villain arc, unless he truly is just THAT nice

[@andyf4519]

What an awesome experience to be on a working holiday with your fam and have it all down on tape ! Thanks for the epic footage , could feel the energy with this one🔥🤙

[@jonathancaliguire]

Always a good day when there's a new JJF edit 🤙

[@dekid-e1m]

Beautiful and excellent mix of vids, music and casual family moments.

[@DanyloDavid]

Your surfing is so insparational !!

[@macawakabamboo]

This was an absolute pleasure to watch. So much fun and so calming.

[@morgandaviesmusic.]

Yes mate! Beautifully shot, capturing beautiful moments, very tender and fluid

[@MrAllstar]

Good edit, the 3 brothers having a jol in South Africa 🙏🤙

[@josmith2062]

Hey Lauren is cool! Nice find JJ!

[@S.L-Sully]

AMAZING FOOTAGE!!!💯🔥💯🔥💯

[@stefanromeyko8431]

What a pleasure to watch 🏄🏽‍♂️🏄🏽‍♂️⛷🏄🏽‍♂️

[@jessevanz6637]

nathan's eyes at 8:56 lmao

[@Cabrinhakite]

Amazing to see your family having so much fun together 🩵🤙🏄🏻‍♂️🏄🏼‍♀️🏄🏻‍♂️🏄🏻‍♂️

[@AYUMI-ek6tk]

This video is wonderful, too❤ I am always looking forward to it I support Tahiti!

[@dcxxx6850]

Wow … beautiful place. No wonder so many people want to live there. Just hope the people who do visit and live there realize and respect that the real locals are not humans.

[@lukasarnold4788]

join the slab tour!!!

[@justinwatene4863]

This content is epic .. more please

[@aeronautekBC]

Nice vlog! I’m wearing my Florence Marine X today.

[@theodorehorton3288]

Best surfer

[@clintoncooke4805]

Bro...that was beautiful...✌️🇳🇿

[@dkallday119]

Making it look so tame

[@groundswell3673]

Jordy's man carve @3:27, wow !!

[@owlmeetscatofficialpage593]

This was a beautiful edit!

[@chrisgreenough2581]

Ivan your beard is rocking!

[@ryanchandler7137]

Braai master Frank!

[@hman7236]

Awesome...

[@garrettduthie1242]

Looks like montanita🇪🇨 and the horses, cows and goats live in my HOA across PCH.

[@RJMCafe]

3:57 vertical tail slide. Wow

[@InnVit223]

Craziest turn of year)

[@sebastianpeters321]

Sick edit! 🙌🙌

[@kayoprice2884]

I’m calling either John or yago whin chopes🤙🤙🤙

[@olliemedia340]

❤️

[@69Jamii]

JBay reunion, everyone scored.

[@alev4287]

When you guys scratch just play ball in hand its the best way, also when you scratch on the break is the only time you play behind the line (not a loss of game, although I used to play like that)

[@sharkmeldon]

ONE💚🙏💚LOVE

[@frankthomas1983]

love it

[@jbond1991]

So sweet

[@upsidedahead]

Look at these splunking pool sharks 😂

[@fabrizioanavitarte]

What camera did you use for filming the elephants? Looks great!

[@JJF]

RED Komodo X

[@fabrizioanavitarte]

Thanks! Looks amazing @@JJF

[@roseelliott2728]

We need to make tandem surfing an Olympic event ❤

[@timr672]

Isn't life wonderful

[@jblo76]

Create video and edit. J-Bay looks like a dream. Is that his mom cross-stepping on the longboard? I knew she surfed but damn, that’s some style.

[@KC80009]

I live for your surfing and edits. Sorry you’ve been robbed. I smell winning in the air sooon!! ❤

[@tylerhoffman972]

WHAT SONG IS THIS

[@alikajohnson9250]

Fun

[@simrdownmon6431]

Scruff bros enjoying life to the fullest.

[@stevengerrrard]

: )

[@whitecloud3356]

😅does it have a name 😮🎉

[@josefamaria7652]

Paisamem

[@hitcho5812]

6:24 glitch in the matrix

[@ianlangevin6762]

You can always have the devil, but you ain't gonna have one of me.

[@rpmx9699]

Not one good beard between em

[@JJF]

Ivan's maybe?

[@masterpropper2485]

@@JJF Ivan's trying to make up for John and Nate 😂

[@rpmx9699]

@@JJF haha, nope

[@Sekelele]

# die gezoute-zout reuk van die koude Zuiderzee… dalk wag daar n verdwaalde kreef. 🦞🌊😎🐟

[@finzosk8]

Amazing editing as always!

[@debaucherizer]

John, why would you take red and yellow boards to S Africa!?!? showing respect to old Hawaiians? or do you just like the colors? dude you took boards that look like lures LOLOLOL!!

[@myronschabe]

As a film maker myself, you have to give credit where it is due...excellent example of adding a lot of depth to a 'mere' surf vlog. As always, so well done. Very what feels like effortless style, just like the surfing.

[@garthdylanconcar5988]

Fully agree. World class

[@luizrsimoes]

I’m really impress with the high level of the narrative, mixing casual images with great surf footage! And the sounds, musics…👏👏👏

[@Lourens777]

I have been wanting to meet John for the last 5 years now but this year I couldn't go to Jbay because I was working. However, this edit has fulfilled my need to see a new John video. The cinematography is superior and I love the music choice. The exclusive content for the Florence Marine X Society just makes this edit feel special before everyone else gets to see it.

[@henri1298]

I love how John has better clips of Nate than Nate had of Nate on his own channel haha.

[@NathanFlorence]

Hahaha!

[@AlexBellini3]

I swear John and Erik make the best films 🔥 I aspire to have my cinematography be on this level 🙏🏼

[@KrakenXE]

I always love watching your videos because you don’t just film the surfing, but the environment that you surround yourself with whether it’s nature or the people you are with

[@BladesofHoney.]

Sooo sick!! Super inspiring!! Great edit man 👏🏽 👏🏽

[@boddysurfer]

Mom dropping in on John, the nerve!

[@manc66]

Robbed in the event is an understatement.

[@afonsoalegre]

Great statement focusing on the good times surfing with family and friends, and totally ignoring the wsl controversy. It speaks for itself: JJF is not only the best all around surfer in the world, he is also as elegant in life as in surfing. 🔥

[@BelleTolles]

So well said. I was thinking about John's surfing after Tahiti. And seeing Gabriel's whole energy there was like watching a driven robot. His interview was basically 'i want to win, I want to win...". Whereas John talked about loving the challenge and the surf". And they got in the water and Gabriel was in a frenzy, like hyper crazed. And it did get him scores. John kept waiting to really surf, and the waves just weren't there. But the crux of what hit me is that John is such a true surfer and artist to his core that he keeps wide open to the moment, to the flow, and is so in tune with it all, it's what let's him flow with the waves like no one else and be the artist he is. But I think his quality of openness can leave him vulnerable to being disrupted by crazy energy like Gabriel had that day, especially when there are no good waves. I think that aspect of John is what makes him a surfer like we've never seen. But also might be why he sometimes gets beaten, and it leaves you scratching your head. But if I had to choose between surfing like Gabriel or surfing like John, I'd choose John 💯. Gabriel is always trying to prove himself, whereas John does what he does from love of it or curiosity or wanting to push his own boundaries wider and wider. Yes he loves to win, but that is only a small piece of him. I am much older than him, but he still is inspirational to me.But to see him get ripped off the way he did at jbay just hurt. And it had to be disheartening to him, no matter how well he took it, but because his true love is surfing, he was just able to move on then to enjoying surf and family.

[@X2UKeith]

This is just so watchable and enjoyable on so many different levels! I want to be part of this family and come hang out with you guys! Yeah and the whole situation with the WSL. What other professional sport is such a joke. What's the point of even watching wsl events, when we can just watch these videos of pure an elegant surfing! Glad you guys have figured out how to make money doing what you love without needing surfer magazine or the WSL.

[@Thinkbefore2]

Bro just to see the Florence bros surf pumping jbay is special

[@scottmcwave9479]

Glad we got to see mom on the longboard 🤙

[@Jopianos]

Wonderful surfing mate! You guys make it look so easy! I love how you feature other surfers and show us a bit of culture from the local break area. Keep it going I love every edit!

[@sMVshortMusicVideos]

Thanks John!

[@warrenmaxxon1305]

Your videos lend massive temporary escape for this old landlocked man. Thank you so very much.

[@MARCELO-BCN]

amazing vídeo Johnny, good luck in Teahupoo a big hug to all the Florence family from Barcelona, "GO JOHNNY GO" good luck friend 🤙

[@50yroldgrom]

Elephants and red tigers, power and finesse, good stuff!

[@charlynnchock678]

JJF HAWAII LOVES YOU fricken awesome athlete, were pissed that WAL became a woke joke or whatever the heck os going on. I can't believe that your scores way to low, that's a fact, we don't have to be rocket scientist to see discrimination!!!! You give it bradah!! Deep hard wrapping gouging manievers, like no one else ,,SKILLS ,hey even the Duke got robbed in 1812 when he square fair WON THAT GOLD MEDAL.. Your a a CHAMPION 🏆🏆🏆 REMEMBER THAT!! Aloha No !!!

[@ethan5304]

The editing to link the 3 Florence boys turns into the next persons wave was incredible!

[@Eld4rZ]

Holy shit the footage and editing is just mind blowing. Well fucking done

[@petermcmahon15]

Great surfing Florence brothers Ivan is the coolest 😎

[@finsadventures656]

Anyone know what song is playing at 5:00

[@Jeff-sim-tube]

looks to me your living the dream, nice to see mate, what an epic time with the family too

[@SimonfromAus]

Wow you guys are really bad at pub sports. Great video.

[@leemeyers1]

The easiest sub I ever made

[@Bartonkaren3]

Thank you so much for sharing part of your family vacation. It looked like a magical trip and It makes me so happy that you got that there. The cinematography, the music, the causal dialogue with friends and family is so uniquely you. It give us a glimpse into what a truly humble and incredibly talented person you truly are. It’s inspiring on so many different levels. I’m already looking forward to your next one.

[@JJF]

Thank you !

[@ELGRINGO1967]

We all know who the best surfer in the world is

[@michaelkrentzin]

Beautiful cinematography. Every aspect of your work is top notch. Incredible place, incredible people, incredible video.

[@christophergonzalez5994]

I literally loved it 🤙🏼

[@brianrogers6059]

Glad they connected with Jordy. IMO, JJF and Jordy art the best at power carves.

[@DownTheLine-Surf]

Love this vid… I live here and John has done an amazing job filming and capturing how it really is..👏👏👏🇿🇦 awesome my bru!!