We’re big fans of Nate Florence and his “Slab Tour”.
And while Florence typically uploads his slab adventures days after they happen, this session with Joao Chianca is actually from a couple of months back, just before the CT stop at Margaret River.
So, while it might be old news, it’s still a worthy watch. Chianca and Florence are two of the most talented and hard-charging slab surfers in the world (in case you haven’t already figured that out), so there’s really nobody we’d rather see go blow for blow at The Box.
In the clip above, Chianca sticks the most insane drop and somehow pulls into the tube (see the 5 minute mark), but he also eats shit on a mean one after the tide had gotten too low, resulting in all three of his fins being ripped clean out of his board.
Luckily it was his board, and not his head, that suffered that fate.
“I thought I was gonna have to save him,” Florence recalls. “But he just came up laughing.”
Like we said: These two aren’t scared. Of anything.
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