Big wave season starts
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OomStruisbaai
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Kai and his partner won the team prize. I just felt they should have delayed it till a decent swell ran. Man that was quite patheticSards wrote: Mon Dec 13, 2021 8:34 am It's on. Kai Lenny the one to watch.
Google Tudor Nazare big wave challenge
Is there any result, anywhere where you won't complain about the officials and that organisation afterwards?
I assume you're never going to watch another surfing contest ever!!? Or at least until the next one.....
20 foot......nah....thats weak. Not really Big Wave Competition qualitySandstorm wrote: Tue Dec 14, 2021 2:09 pmIs there any result, anywhere where you won't complain about the officials and that organisation afterwards?
I assume you're never going to watch another surfing contest ever!!? Or at least until the next one.....
If they had delayed till this past weekend they would have had 55 foot plus.....thats a better spectacle.
My boy Matt Bromley has been at Jaws and missed all the action at Nazare.....They were practising in surf around 15 foot.........He is now moving to Pipeline because an epic swell building there.....
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OomStruisbaai
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Some great swells and great weather around the south coast.
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FalseBayFC
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A good mate bought me a birthday present from a famous Durban shaper. Its a 7′10″ funboard. Very buoyant and I've been going to Muizenberg when I can. I had to buy a new wetsuit because my old one didn't get past my thighs. I grew up surfing Wedge, Country club and North Beach but Muizenberg is great for an unfit ballie like me. I went to Noordhoek with an old china who is in great shape and it really fucked me up. I was completely finished after every paddle out.
The Wedge in Paaerdeneiland...FalseBayFC wrote: Wed Jan 26, 2022 9:50 am A good mate bought me a birthday present from a famous Durban shaper. Its a 7′10″ funboard. Very buoyant and I've been going to Muizenberg when I can. I had to buy a new wetsuit because my old one didn't get past my thighs. I grew up surfing Wedge, Country club and North Beach but Muizenberg is great for an unfit ballie like me. I went to Noordhoek with an old china who is in great shape and it really fucked me up. I was completely finished after every paddle out.
That was one of my best spots...jump off the concrete dollases ( spell ) into the sea after a wave hit and paddle like vok to get away before the next wave hits ........lovely shaped wave but you had to be fit to chase the wedges.
We could drive in in those days , always used to be shark fins hanging on lines to dry ...and a Chinese processing building where the carpark was....they have stopped it now...Both Tanks and the Wedge still exist; it is, however, a grand mission to reach them. Until recently, to reach Tanks, you could park off Marine Drive Paarden Eiland and scurry through a hole in the fence and over the railway track. Then you made a perilous climb over a smooth rounded concrete sea wall and down onto the hazardous dollasa. But the hole in the fence has been mended. Now the only way in is if you park at Lagoon beach beyond the river mouth at the mountain end of Milnerton and walk the length of Woodstock beach. Tanks still produces a lovely wave and is a particularly good alternative when the Milnerton lighthouse break is too big and closing out for a comfortable session. The walk to the Wedge is quite a distance longer. To add spice to your experience, you could get arrested or fined, or both, if you’re caught at the Wedge, which is officially part of the American-friendly Cape Town harbour.
On big days we would go there or Sandy bay.......
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FalseBayFC
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Oh. Didn't know there was also a Wedge in CT. The Wedge break I am talking about is to the right of new pier in Durbs.
