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Where are you from? |
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I grow up in Cottesloe in Perth then since I have been 17 I have been living in Yallingup which is 3 hours south of Perth. |
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You recently retired from competitive surfing, how long were you chasing the tour? |
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Good question, been chasing the tour for about 17 years and was on the WCT tour for 11 of those years. |
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How different is retirement compared to your years on tour? |
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Way less stress on trying to get results. On the other hand way less money. I was pretty smart when I was tour and set myself up pretty well with investment properties. |
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You had some big victories on both the wqs and wct events, name your most memorable and why? |
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I guess My Pipe win in 98 would have to be the biggest but you know every one to me is memorable, you surf in these events week in week out and there is only ever one winner so I’m proud of every win I had over the years. |
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Where was your favourite and least favourite spots to go on tour? |
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I would have to say Fiji was my favourite, sick waves great fishing and hanging with all your friends on a remote island. I don’t really have a least favourite, I learned to love every place I traveled to. |
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Wheres your favourite wave? |
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Right in front of my house in Yallingup. |
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Your website worldprosurfers.com, how is that going and whats it all about? |
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It’s going great, it’s really good to see all the top surfers in the world stick together and do something for there own futures. The hole WPS things is like any other professional sport , it’s like a players group or union or what ever else you want to call it. There was no one looking after the surfers so we decided to look after our selves. |
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Who was your biggest scalp on tour, and biggest nemesis? |
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I would have to say Andy Irons, I have beaten Kelly before but he has smashed me way more times so there is nothing to brag about, but with Andy we have this thing, it’s hard to explain but I rained on his parade a few times. |
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When surfing a heat. did you have one specific strategy to beat someone or would you figure out and have different strategies to beat different surfers? |
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Yeah I would have different strategies to beat different guys for sure, I kind of had to be that guy because I never thought I could beat the top guys so I decided to use my head I little more. |
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Who is your favourite surfer and why? |
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I have so many guys, from my brother paul because he pushed me from when I was a grom, to my traveling buddies, Luke Hicho, Jarrad House, Luke Stedman, Kirk Flintoff , Troy Brooks, Luke Munro. Then you have Rich Lovett who was my sole mate kind of and after what happened to him he is my idol. Taj because we surfed together every day when we are at home and he is a freak. All the local rippers at home, Damon Eastough, Ding, Marty, Oddy, Rick jacko the list is endless. But the two guys from tour would be Occ and Taylor. Occ because I have never seen anyway so natural on a surfboard and taylor because he surfs the way he wants and no judge has changed a thing about his surfing. |
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Whats the funniest thing you've ever seen on tour? |
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To many to name for sure, I mean you travel around the world with a bunch of your friends going to the funnest places and your pretty much laughing the whole time. |
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How has the professional surfing tour changed since you began competing? |
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It’s become way more professional, guys are traveling with coaches and physio ‘s and stuff like that these days and train like it really matters and when I started surfing was about all any one did. |
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You have always worked and trained hard throughout your career, what types of training did you find to be most beneficial? |
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Boxing and sand dune runs. It’s really good for your mind as well .. |
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Can you name the best surfboard you ever had and why? |
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I have a rack of surfboards that I have won contest on at home, it’s pretty hard to name one because over 11 years on tour a would have had about 800 new boards and to have a hand full of good ones is pretty good. |
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You play a lot of golf, hows your golf game looking these days? |
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Pretty bad but I love it, only one good shot per round is enough to bring me back the next time. |
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Being from the west, do you follow the west coast eagles or the fremantle dockers? |
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West Coast... |
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You have 2 kids now, do they surf like their old man? |
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My son in almost 10 and surfs a little but he loves his AFL way more and my little girl is 5 and she surfs every now and again. |
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Whats the best surf trip you have ever done and why? |
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7 days 7 slaves was one of the best for sure. Up in the Mantawai ‘s on a boat with the best crew. |
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Whos going to win the world title 07 and 08? |
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An ozzie, it’s time we take the title back and keep it hear for a while to come. |
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Whats next for jake patto? |
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I will be working for the WPS and also working at some of the Quiksilver events around the world and I have just moved to Bali for a while.. So lots going on for me.. |
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On behalf of the team at JD Sports Agency, we would like to thank Jake for his time in speaking to us on 20 Questions and we wish him all the very best in his future aspirations. |
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