Being a natural footer, Jordy is always going to love right-hand breaking waves. With his left foot forward and his face to the wave, these are going to be the waves when he is going to be surfing his best. This year on the World Tour there are a couple of right-hand breaking waves, perfectly suited to Jordy’s surfing. Jeffreys Bay. This is the most obvious one, as Jordy is two-times Billabong Pro champion, and is going into the 2012 event looking for a hat-trick.
After surfing at Supers for so many of his formulative surfing years, the waves are totally wired into his DNA. He knows which waves are going to run, which are going to fade, and which are going to allow him to totally unleash for those high scores needed to advance heats and win events. Jordy will be going into the Billabong Pro as a top seed, and all eyes will be on him from the local contingent and local media, as well as from all of the other surfers on tour with him.
Snapper Rocks is also a right-hand pointbreak at which Jordy could excel. He has done so in the past, with a runner up spot in 2010, followed by a third place finish in 2011. Jordy totally dominates the waves at Snapper Rocks and could easily push it a bit further to secure a win at the tour’s opening event. At this stage it’s not confirmed that the event will run at Snapper as there was a shipping accident recently and there was pollution and run-off in the water.
Bells Beach in Australia is another right-hand pointbreak where Jordy could do well. A punchy, bowling kind of wave, there will definitely be waves out there that look like Jeffreys Bay at times. Even more so is Winkipop, down the road, where the contest is sometimes moved. Jordy has an excellent track record at Bells and if he finds the right waves he could easily take a maiden victory at this venue.
Trestles in California is a wave that has been made for competitive surfing. While it has some excellent lefts off the peak, the right-handers are the waves that score highly. Fast and punchy, Trestles often has that faint lip-line that is made for big and futuristic moves, the kind that Jordy and friends are best at. Everyone was expecting big things from Jordy last year at Trestles, but then the big and ferocious left that is Teahupo’o left him injured and missing the next two events.
It must be said that while not technically right-hand pointbreaks, Rio de Janeiro, France and Portugal are all beachbreaks with multiple possible set-ups. It could quite easily be that Portugal has a perfect right bank, that the best waves in France this year are rights, and that the Rio event pushes a few good rights through.
Then we have Steamer Lane in Santa Cruz, California. It’s the first time for this event to have World Tour status, but this right-hand point-break wave is already one of Jordy’s favourites. Before it was a World Tour event, Jordy notched a victory here in 2007, showing the world his affinity with The Lane and the cold water of the environs.
Jordy is a top contender in any of the right-handers mentioned above, but has anyone ever told you that he is also quite good at going left?
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