With J-Bay hovering on the horizon, everyone’s at South Africa’s famed wave getting a few laps in before the horn blows. It’s not a bad way to spend a few days, surfing waves not quite good enough for the contest but still pretty damn good and whacking golf galls around. Things could be worse, as they say.
The Billabong team, including Parko, Ethan Ewing, Jack Freestone, Italo Ferreira, and Frederico Morais, should be well and truly warmed up.