Their brother Mikey competes on the Men's Championship Tour as well. His sister Tyler Wright is a two-time Women's World Champion, winning the Women's Championship Tour in 20. He has no cousins but he has 5 siblings who all surf. It's easy to pretend you're not trying.Wright was born on 16 January 1990 and grew up at Culburra Beach on the south coast of New South Wales. He's not like your normal, I lost that heat, I better go do more weights, do more heat drills. He had three or four days off and went camping and fishing at the back of Coffs Harbor with his girlfriend.
He gets up and sends me pictures of the fish he caught that morning and his dog on the beach. His style, too - he drives the biggest four-wheel drive in the whole country, I think. Whereas Mikey's giving it everything he's got, and he's not afraid to show it. And if they fail, they can say, Oh, I wasn't into it, or it wasn't for me. And one of the biggest thing is that he's come back into surfing now, and he's looking like he's trying.Ī lot of freesurfers that have gone back to it have tried to make it look like they're not trying. He did his freesurfing clips, he's done some of the biggest airs in the world. He's a surfer with true character, and not a conformed, F1 approach to surfing. Mikey has this rock-star persona and unofficial fan club that seems to match his style in the water. Plus, his sister and brother are two of the most amazing athletes in the world. He really wants to win at what he's doing, so it made sense that surfing would lead that way, too. He's a pretty competitive person, no matter what he does. What appeals to him about competition, why now? When you show up to compete, you're being there to give your best performance. So now, Mikey saves his favorites, and puts it on cotton wool and pulls it back out for for the next event. So they constantly don't have their favorite board because they might have just broken it. Freesurfers, they're riding the best board they have at the time in every surf.
#MIKEY WRIGHT SURFER PRO#
Pro surfers focus on their boards, always making sure they're riding the best equipment in their heats. We broke things down into little pieces and worked on each of them.
If you were to envision a montage of Mikey's progress over the past two years, what would it look like? Before Wright takes on the beach break in Southern California, here's a look at some of his secrets to success. The two have been working together in Queensland for about two years, refining every component of Wright's competition game - from preparation to heat strategy and everything in between. None of that comes as a surprise to his coach, Quiksilver Global Events Director Troy Brooks. That's partly because of his pedigree: His sister, Tyler, is the two-time, reigning WSL World Champion, while his brother, Owen, is a veteran of the men's Championship Tour (CT).īut it's also because of his rep as a mullet-wearing giant killer who's thrown a wrench in the ambitions of John John Florence and Gabriel Medina - beating them on the Gold Coast and in Uluwatu, respectively - during the five wildcard appearances he's made this season. 3, but also one of the most recognizable names. This time around, when Wright paddles out just south of the Huntington Pier, he will not only be one of the highest ranked surfers on the QS, at No.
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