Mikey February Puts on a Clinic at This Mexican Pointbreak
'Even if he's not riding a twin fin, he surfs like someone riding a twin fin. Fast, loose, and on the brink,' Senior Editor Alex Haro once said about watching February on a large day at Supertubos, a wave nobody ever associates with twin fins.
Now, if a shaper did decide to design a twin fin for such waves — the kind that are faster, steeper, and larger than what the average Joe grabs their twinny for — they'd probably do so with Mikey February in mind. That's how we got the Twin Pin from Channel Islands, which Britt Merrick crafted with the South African surfer over the course of two years.
This clip is an insane collection of bottom turns to barrels to cutties to carves on a dreamlike day in Mexico. It's the kind of stylistic display you could only imagine from Mikey February and a very short list of world class talent. The takeoff is overhead. The barrels are long and reliable. And the crowd looks far from heinous, which is the best part.
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