Watch: Coolangatta Barrels
So far, it hasn't been the best season on the Queensland points. Yeah, lot's of swell around, very few flat days, but not many bouts of lined up tradeswell and even fewer cyclones.
This week the tradewind belt has finally gotten itself together and is buffeting the coast with six or so feet of relentless short-range swell. Quality isn't high, wave counts are.
The inside points are faring better, touch more wind protection, more bottom drag to iron out the wobbles too, even if the end result is smaller.
Here's raw footage from a session that went down yesterday. All fairly standard surfing for SE Queensland, but then at 1:08 Lungi Slabb does something that'll cause you to rewind the video again and again.
How did he make that drop? And how did he immediately get speed to make the next section?
And where is the claim..?
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Lungi's barrel is phenomenal. Also amazing that no-one dropped in on him!
the first time i watched it i was yelling at the dude for not going the shoulder part but then lungi comes flying out and i was like 'wait wtf where did he come from'
Magician. There was no-one on that wave for 30 metres. A crumbly whitewater section wiped the slate clean. Then a speck is visible briefly deep in the whitewater, Then a human appears out of the mists and backdoors a huge section.
That was crazy good. Be interesting to hear his thoughts on the experience.
No claim? Come on Stu, he did a two handed nose blow. That’s Australian for ‘claim’.
It is ridiculous though.
We've all had that friend say "If you make the barrel you weren't deep enough..."
Now we have the comeback - "He couldn't have been any deeper!"
Epic stuff from Lungi.
Those guys on the shoulder must've had quite the WTF moment.
Overthefalls takeoff?? Wtf
3:30 Longer Board looks Sweet - Ben Webb ?
Definitely Ben Webb.
Knee brace and a 6'10.
That's gotta be the craziest wave I've ever seen made. Doesn't even make sense.
2 others come to mind, both from teahupoo:
1) Nathan florence riding impossibly high behind the spit and coming out (8 years or so back)
2) There was a bodyboard one from about 2000 - maybe damian king or ben player?? solid 8 or 10 footer, so deep he didn't expect to make it, took a hand off the rail and gave a fist pump before dissapearing and then somehow ended up making it.
That was Kingy at Teahupoo
Is it just me or does it really favor the natural footers out there when its a proper wave running?
I must have watched that takeoff 15 times and I still don't get it.
I love the two falls at the 3:15 mark...
You can almost read their minds as they spin around : "Whaaat....a wave!!! Im gonna get barrelled......f#$%^^"
well thats pretty shit the first thing that comes on a fucking add about politics sure i pay membership to not see that crap every minute of the day thanks @swellnet
You understand it's not our video, right?
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Hahahha,
that made me laugh
You obviously don't pay for youtube premium. Nothing to do with swellnet you peanut.