Skeleton Bay

[coarse]

http://www.surfermag.com/videos/skeleto ... namefirst/

I have not seen this posted yet. Too good not to share. I have seen a few vids from Skeleton bay before, but nothing like this. Skip to 1:15 as the into is shit. I had to watch the first and last clips a few times.

[alakaboo]

That's actually a pretty good fillum.
A bit long but much more watchable than most of the recent ones.

How do you go back to surfing after that ride he gets from 1:20?
I'd quit surfing for good if I got that wave.

[Nick Carroll]

ah it'd just temporarily fill the froth o meter

true fulfilment is a hoax in surfing as it is in everything else.

[--++sunstroke++--]

ah it'd just temporarily fill the froth o meter

true fulfilment is a hoax in surfing as it is in everything else.

It's what keeps you at the table like a bad gambler.

[Drailed]

Wow... Mind blowing.

The blokes who have been surfing that place for the past few years must be stoked with all the air time it's been getting recently.

[alakaboo]

My synapses would all be melted, I reckon I'd sit in the sand and cry for a bit first

[chrisb]

Great video - loved Pink Floyd at the start.
It looks quite eerie, foggy and a little sharky creepy.
I have heard Bruce Brown harping on about the danger of sharks over there but have there ever been any actual shark sightings and/or shark attacks on the Skeleton Coast?

[Trev]

went back and had another look and it's actually 1.40 on the first wave...that's a 100 second barrel.

fcuken hell.

You'd be a gibbering wreck when you came out the end.
Did you see the guy who looked like he was paddling for the wave about half way through?

[ctd]

Surely its in slow motion though - otherwise thats a very slow moving wave. When you look at the speed of the wave from the beach, its pretty fast. I would have thought maybe a 30 -45 second ride at real life speed. Only...

[alakaboo]

The bloke himself reckoned it was a bit under 30s.

[alakaboo]

Watch the footage in real time and look at the time stamp?

[still here]

Its a mutant wave ! often 5-6 C water from the Benguela current , and some heavy sealife those parts too .