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A John John Florence Prediction Collected Thoughts 127: Nate Lawrence chimes in on the sporting side of things

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“There’s been plenty to talk about with the WSL recently. Most of it about the horrible advertisements and even worse music coinciding with the WSL. But I got to thinking after watching the 2nd round of the NBA Playoffs and how un-competitive it has been — it’s almost like the WSL. Kelly Slater was Michael Jordan, denying Taj and a handful of others a world title just like Jordan did to Charles Barkley, Reggie Miller and Patrick Ewing. There was a few year gap where Fanning, Parko and Medina got their world titles, but now John John is Lebron James. Or even the entire Golden State Warriors team. Who is going to stop him for the next 10 years?

My prediction for this year: title is wrapped up by Trestles. John John. But he aint gonna sit any games out” —Nate Lawrence

Dane Reynolds photographed by Kai Neville In Japan What Youth

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This is Dane on the train to Osaka, in Japan. Osaka is about an hour from its airport and our exit flight left the next day, and as none of us had been to Osaka we decided to ride in and see the sights. The city turns out to be rad, like a smaller Tokyo,…

Craig Anderson photographed in New York by Kai Neville What Youth

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Photo by Kai Neville Kai took this photo of Craig a little before 1 a.m. in Brooklyn, New York. They’re leaving the strange party they wandered into after a Dirty Beaches show at Williamsburg’s Glasslands Gallery — truly they did, they sauntered all Australian through some odd open side door and into someone’s loft, where…

John John Florence in Barbados

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This is John John Florence by the ghost of an Olympic pool at an abandoned resort in the parish of St. Lucy near the northern tip of Barbados, and what a useless cavity in the ground has he got here. The walls are too vertical to skate, there’s no water to ease the heat, there’s…

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