Whether this is a positive or negative depends on your viewpoint.

In 2014 Alana failed to win a single heat on the WCT. So in 2015, she will concentrate more on her free surfing.

In a recent Instagram post, she said that this year she will be surfing more in warm water. She’s already posted GoPro clips from Mexico and the Gold Coast. There hasn’t been a scrap of wetsuit in sight.

Of course, with her Rip Curl contract (inclusive of her bikini royalties) estimated to be around €500,000 per year, that makes both financial and surfing sense.

I’ll leave it to you to decide what you’d rather see: Alana losing heats in full wetsuits in three foot wind chop in Portugal, or her bottom turning in a bikini in Barbados.