HISTORY. MADE! Congratulations to Albee Layer! We have the interview and...

HISTORY. MADE! Congratulations to Albee Layer! We have the interview and...

The bottom turn
The bottom turn
surfing Video
Published 22 November 2016

HISTORY. MADE! Congratulations to Albee Layer! We have the interview and video here: http://srfng.co/albee

About a month ago Albee Layer aka @johnjohn_slater landed his — and the world’s — first backside 540. It was a trick he’d been trying for a year and a half, a huge weight off his shoulders and a giant leap forward in the progression of aerial surfing. Buuuuuuuut nobody filmed it. Oops. Fast-forward to Friday evening and, after a month of beating his body and mind in pursuit of landing the trick again, Albee sticks another one. This time was bigger and cleaner than the first and, wouldn’t you know it, the cameras were rolling. We spoke with Albee on Saturday about the historic trick. "So I landed backwards, and was kinda tip-toeing and did little air drop and I was like, “Oh my god please don’t fall right now.” I thought I was going to fall like three times, going, “Oh fuck..oh fuck..oh fuck…” Then I was still standing and it was like, “Shit, there’s two people filming, it’s probably on footage…I’m done.”

Video by Take Shelter Productions // Huckleberrysurfco