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Laissez Flair

By Jon Coen
EXPN.com

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

In Round Three of this week's Quiksilver Gold Coast Pro, the first stop on the 2008 World Tour, Dane Reynolds drew local Dean Morrison in fairly weak but contestable shoulder-high surf—not unlike much of the surf back at beaches in Ventura, California where the 22-year-old grew up. There was plenty of expectation following Reynolds into the water. The global surf media has been so obsessed with he and fellow tour rookie Jordy Smith, it's as if Mick, Taj Burrow, Kelly, Andy and the rest of t ...

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