Honolulu — John John Florence, defending champion of the VANS World Cup of Surfing and the VANS Triple Crown series title, posted the highest heat score of the event at Sunset Beach on Monday. Florence, hit the water immediately after Kelly Slater returned to the beach with a heat win, thinking he was the top scorer of the event: 17.04 points. As Slater sat in the VANS LIVE interview chair, he watched the tables turn right in front of his eyes  … More
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It’s not a competition of who’s on the weirdest mission. It’s just a celebration of your mental calibration. Wavelengths flutter like a bird that’s stuck in butter. Felling gray matter with a stack of cruddy clutter.
Needing a solid result or two in Hawaii in order to make the leap up the rankings to qualify for the ASP World Tour, Sebastian “Seabass” Zietz, instead, won the first event at Haleiwa and solidified his spot among the top 34 in 2013. Here we look back at the past year and talk to Seabass about his path to reaching his dream and getting to represent his friends and family from Kauai on the Tour.