John John Florence celebrates his first world title on the shoulder of shaper John Pyzel with Pat O’Connell. THe 24-year-old is the first Hawaii born surfer to win the men’s title since 2004. John John Florence Wins first World Title when he claimed the championship title while surfing the final round of the  MEO Rip Curl Pro Portugal.

“I honestly can’t believe it right now, it’s obviously not sunk in just yet,” Florence said in an official statement. “I’m so stoked, I’ve worked my whole life towards this and I have so many people to thank for this.”

Florence’s win marks the first time a Hawaii-born surfer has won the men’s world title of surfing since 2004, when the late Andy Irons won the title for the third consecutive year in a row.

John John Florence Wins first World Title

World Surf League – World Title winner John John Florence competes during the final heat of the Portuguese stage of the World Surf League championship, Considering everything Florence has accomplished in his first 24 years of life, we can’t wait to see what the phenom will do next.

One event remains in the WSL Men’s Championship Tour, which reconvenes at the world-famous Banzai Pipeline on Oahu’s North Shore in December.

Not only will Florence be competing as a newly crowned world champion during the Billabong Pipe Masters, he’ll also have a home-court advantage: Florence grew up surfing Pipeline, which breaks near the beach in his own backyard.

As Florence’s family tells it, he first surfed a wave with his mom when he was 6 months old on the North Shore. By the time he was 8, the blond surfing prodigy was already mastering the waves at Pipeline and, at age 13, he became the youngest person ever to compete in the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing.

Florence made history yet again last winter when he won the Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational, an invite-only surf contest held at Oahu’s Waimea Bay that requires such large waves and particular conditions that it has only been held nine times in the past 31 years.

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