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Enter Jack Freestone's zone as 21 Hours continues in France
Chris Cote continues his award-winning ways with this exposé on Red Bull Airborne Bali champion Jack Freestone's training regime in the lead up to the French edition.
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As you know by now Red Bull Airborne wrapped up its third and final event for 2019 in the punchy beachbreaks of Hossegor during the running of the Quiksilver Pro. Hopefully you saw Ian Crane train like a demon, and were thrilled when he took the win.
Jack Freestone's alley oop make rate is up there with the best
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Jack's hack was on point in Europe
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Tubes, turns, airs? Jack Freestone does 'em all
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As well as following Crane en route to France, our favourite frontline correspondent Chris Cote went in camp with the winner of Red Bull Airborne's Balinese edition, Jack Freestone. Alongside Yago Dora and Italo Ferreira, Freestone's success ensured that from the three Red Bull Airborne events run the WSL's Championship Tour surfers had clean swept them all. We needed to find out what makes the man tick.
Jack kicks his tail high and readies for landing
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Jack's life is one worth smiling over
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Jack Freestone with an honest frontside grab
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As you'll see in the video above, Cote uncovered some less than orthodox strategies employed by the Aussie in the lead up to the French event. And while the day might not have delivered Jack the result he was after – stitches in the head after a clean-up set nearly KO'd our hero – you sure can't fault the meticulous lengths he went to in preparation for the big show.
Rest assured, Jack's minor cut didn't see him out of the water for long at all. Exactly a week later he finished third in the Quiksilver Pro, showing that in the end maybe there was method to his pre-game madness. Sit back, hit play and enjoy the action, this is 21 Hours, with Jack Freestone.
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