A playful day. Lucas pulling some aerials and flips...moves really pioneered by Kai Lenny. For me the greatest watersportsman ever. Amazing in a variety of water disciplines. Can't wait for him to arrive
Re: Big wave season starts
Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2021 6:42 pm
by Sards
They are just toying with these massive waves
Re: Big wave season starts
Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2021 7:38 pm
by OomStruisbaai
Sards wrote: Sat Dec 11, 2021 6:42 pm
They are just toying with these massive waves
Stop posting spam videos
Re: Big wave season starts
Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2021 4:39 am
by Sards
They ran 1 heat yesterday. Nathan Florence, Billy Kemper and a few others got some impressive paddle in waves....next call in 3 hours
Re: Big wave season starts
Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2021 5:28 am
by Sards
Sards wrote: Mon Dec 13, 2021 4:39 am
They ran 1 heat yesterday. Nathan Florence, Billy Kemper and a few others got some impressive paddle in waves....next call in 3 hours
Scheduled for tomorrow now
Re: Big wave season starts
Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2021 8:34 am
by Sards
It's on. Kai Lenny the one to watch.
Google Tudor Nazare big wave challenge
Re: Big wave season starts
Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2021 4:52 pm
by Sards
And whilst the boys were playing with 15 to 20 foot waves at Nazare........Connor Mcguire was getting properly barreled in Ireland where a massive swell hit
Re: Big wave season starts
Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2021 11:28 am
by Sards
Sards wrote: Mon Dec 13, 2021 8:34 am
It's on. Kai Lenny the one to watch.
Google Tudor Nazare big wave challenge
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 pathetic
Sards wrote: Mon Dec 13, 2021 8:34 am
It's on. Kai Lenny the one to watch.
Google Tudor Nazare big wave challenge
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 pathetic
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 quality
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.....
Re: Big wave season starts
Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2022 5:38 pm
by Sards
Mat Bromley getting some action.....finally
This man is so natural in the barrel
Re: Big wave season starts
Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2022 8:33 pm
by OomStruisbaai
Some great swells and great weather around the south coast.
Re: Big wave season starts
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2022 5:03 pm
by Sards
And then whilst the boys are waiting on the North shore for swell this hits Cape Town
Re: Big wave season starts
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2022 5:06 pm
by Sards
This has to be the sickest surf edit I have seen. J Bay on fire surfed by a local who lives there
Re: Big wave season starts
Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2022 7:18 pm
by Sards
Matt chilling with some big wave surfing royalty. And of course the locals who made Jaws famous
Re: Big wave season starts
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2022 9:54 am
by Sards
Interesting from Matt
Re: Big wave season starts
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2022 9:02 am
by Sards
The Billabong Pipeline pro is happening from the 29th Jan till 10th Feb....
Well worth a watch.
I am hoping the Jaws Challenge happens soon after....especially with all the surfers already there.
Re: Big wave season starts
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2022 9:50 am
by FalseBayFC
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.
Re: Big wave season starts
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2022 10:33 am
by Sards
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.
The Wedge in Paaerdeneiland...
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.
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.
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...
On big days we would go there or Sandy bay.......
Re: Big wave season starts
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2022 1:36 pm
by FalseBayFC
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.
Re: Big wave season starts
Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2022 6:44 pm
by Sards
Pipeline is happening right now
Re: Big wave season starts
Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2022 7:05 pm
by Sards
Mathew Mcgilleray , a Saffer, just got through his round. Just breaking into the event.
Re: Big wave season starts
Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2022 10:07 pm
by Sards
John John is up next
Re: Big wave season starts
Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2022 4:55 am
by Sards
So Jordy had to go through the elimination round which he won and now faces Mathew in an all South African heat , last heat of the day today....there will only be 1
Re: Big wave season starts
Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2022 7:10 pm
by Sards
Our boy Jordy with the wave of the day
Re: Big wave season starts
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2022 8:39 am
by Sards
Yoh....the South Africans are out of the Pipe Masters......sad
Re: Big wave season starts
Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2022 7:49 pm
by Sards
Finals day pipeline is on
Re: Big wave season starts
Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2022 12:05 am
by Sards
And the GOAT takes his 8th pipeline title
Re: Big wave season starts
Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2022 6:46 am
by Enzedder
Sards wrote: Sun Feb 06, 2022 12:05 am
And the GOAT takes his 8th pipeline title
Awesome to see. There's life in the old GOAT still
Sards wrote: Sun Feb 06, 2022 12:05 am
And the GOAT takes his 8th pipeline title
Awesome to see. There's life in the old GOAT still
I feel embarrassed after watching a 50 year old man perform like that....yoh
Re: Big wave season starts
Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2022 2:00 pm
by Sards
It's going off on Thursday at Nazare. Having a towing in comp. Right now those surfers already there are enjoying paddling into some 15 to 20 foot peaks
Re: Big wave season starts
Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2022 5:00 pm
by Sards
Well Nazare is a let down once again....
Surprised Kai was there...thought all the Hawaiians would be preparing for
The Hurley Pro Sunset Beach is definitely the go to for the 11th.
Re: Big wave season starts
Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2022 5:06 pm
by Sards
The Sunset challenge starts in 20
Re: Big wave season starts
Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2022 5:08 pm
by Sards
Jordy up against Mathew in the first heat...
Two Saffers against each other again
The GOAT heat 3
The heavyweights in heat 5...Italo etc
Kai Lenny heat 6
John John heat 8
Re: Big wave season starts
Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2022 5:35 pm
by Sards
And just like that its off till the 15th. Waiting for bigger surf
Re: Big wave season starts
Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2022 6:46 pm
by Sards
The Hurley Sunset Pro is on
Jordy won the first heat and Mathew will have to be surf in the elimination round. Something wrong with his fin choice