Sports Illustrated is going to bat for Ashley Graham — after Toccara Jones called her twerking abilities subpar — by releasing a new, revealing video of her booty-shaking in the sand.

SI posted the new clip on Wednesday … showing more of Ashley’s on location twerk-off with a photo shoot crew member. Interestingly, the video dropped AFTER Toccara, the “Queen of Thickness,” called out AG’s twerk skills. 

She straight-up laughed, telling us Ashley was lacking some major pop. 

In Toccara’s defense … she was looking at a different SI vid (below), where Ashley was shot from afar.

We have no clue if the new angle would sway Toccara’s vote, but we’ll say this — Ashley’s got plenty of swaying going on back there. Plenty.

Short story, long … Sports Illustrated clapped back with a sub-gram of Ashley clapping a lot of back. Well played. On everyone’s part.