Nate Florence is human after all.
We were starting to wonder. After his run of insane slabs these past 6-months or so, it was beginning to seem as though Florence could do no wrong.
Yesterday, at Puerto Escondido in Mexico, Florence showed us that he doesn’t actually make every wave. Standing at the top of a 12-foot Puerto monster, Florence looks down the line, doesn’t like what he sees, and attempts to pull off the back.
It doesn’t go well.
His decision is seconds too late, and the wave pulls Florence into a 3-story nightmare free fall.
Florence’s filmer, Zoard, can only look on in horror: “What were you thinking, my bro!”
Somehow, Florence comes up unscathed. Rather than cut his losses and head in for the morning, he paddled straight back out and went full psycho on a left, taking yet another elevator drop straight to destruction. See below:
Two of the worst wipeouts of the year in the same day?
“Session was a little rough today,” Nate says, replying to a comment on Instagram.
That’s one way to put it.
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