One perfect wave on the Sunshine Coast - video
This is quite possibly the best wave that's ever rolled through the Sunshine Coast. And it went completely unridden! Video courtesy Andrew Cassidy.
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Comments
Reminds me of so many waves.. But certainly not from the Sunny Coast! What a perfect spitting beast.
Yea a sunny coast spitting beast alright ! Actually breaks heaps more than people think. Just not as big as this. Its the same wave Parko surfs in "free as a dog"
Sometimes the bank shifts further south towards a sandspit island
and sometimes it forms a peak smack bang in the middle of the rivermouth.
It looked crowded, but only about 20 out of the 500 guys were actually taking off.
I reccon the first bloke that pulled back would be kicking himself, IMO he looked to be good for the take off on that. Even if he didn't make it, at least he had a crack, all the others were half hearted attempts. I guess you had to be there,.
Amazing wave. Must be the exact same wave as today's WOD?
My imagination is pushing that guy over the ledge. GO MATE GO! But it's a beautiful thing to see something like that go through unridden at a spot as busy as that.
Sunny coast asif
Yea a sunny coast spitting beast alright ! Actually breaks heaps more than people think.
Just not as big as this. Its the same wave Parko surfs in "free as a dog"
Sometimes the bank shifts further south towards a sandspit island
and sometimes it forms a peak smack bang in the middle of the rivermouth.
It looked crowded, but only about 20 out of the 500 guys were actually taking off.
I'm kinda glad no one got it, very peaceful mind surfing it!
Panaitan
Both of those dudes should've had it, or at least kamikazied into in an attempt to catch it. but yeah 'dickdragger' i reckon its good noone got it for that fact
It is a sad truth about surfing that generally waves look more beautiful without somebody riding them.
What a day..I happened to be paddling back out when that one came through..me and the guy next to me who'd gotten the wave before mine were yelling the exact same thing...wooooooohhh fucking gooooo maaaaate!!!... Followed by a hundred nooooooooooooo's from the peanut gallery
Hilarious reading all of the keyboard warrior comments on Facebook...
https://www.facebook.com/swellnet/posts/10153855641774929
Yep, for the average person, the wave seems to be bowling so hard that, unless you are taking off right under that lip, it's very hard to get into the wave.
That's my first foray into the world of Swellnet facebook.
500+ comments !
Makes this site look very low key.
But it also makes this site look high brow.
Sorta.
Facebook = Dickhead magnet .
True or false ?
Or is it just a microcosm reflective of the fact that we're all dickheads ?
Please tell me it ain't so.
Just a slight reminder that my entire ego, self esteem and therefore my life's worth hinges on your answer.
Yeah summed up well, though you have to remember that FB has more than 1.5 billion users, so it's easy for things to go 'viral' as FB members are already interconnected - most of the comments were sharing (or tagging) other members. Not only was yesterday's post an outlier for us (i.e. unusually high response, as FB usually tighten the screws on content), surfing is essentially a niche sport and Swellnet's approach is very focused compared to other surf websites.
Quote of the day: "surfing is essentially a niche sport"
Surfing is essentially a niche sport, .....................
that captures the imagination of everyone who does it and virtually everyone who doesn't, and is used widely in the media to sell cars, phones, clothing, feminine products, and probably trained gorillas. :-)
Not really sure just how niche it is these days Ben. Professional surfing, sure, but I can't think of any sport that so captures the imagination of the mainstream.
This should really be discussed elsewhere (as its long and complex) but in short, it comes down to how you measure it, and also whether surfing is a sport (like football or tennis) or a recreational pursuit (like fishing).
I agree that surfing is used massively to advertise anything and everything. But it's more the 'beach lifestyle' that is being used (i.e. "I bet you'd rather be hanging at the beach right now, instead of [insert shitty equivalent here]"), rather than the actual mechanics of surfing.
Yes, blowin, facebook = dickhead magnet Your ego is safe.
I am proble the only person that hasn't got a good wave from this swell yet. Can't bring my self to paddle out at snapper and the beach is just a closing out.
Snapper wasn't the only Gold Coast point that was on the pump yesterday morning and the other point had a quarter of the crowd.
Nah the chase, you're not the only one. I don't have the patience to deal with crowds anymore.
Thank god it's almost over and everybody is back to school/work. Then I'll slip out for my mid-week surfs again.
Same....got a few,but fooken frustrating swell overall for me on the sunny coast,hard to get a good session as is often the case with these high profile swells around here.
Yeah Ben, Only one Gary G on the swellnet forums. Loads of wanna-be Gary Gs on Facebook... Bet those blokes wouldn't even know a facey if it was flexing right in front of them.
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Perfect lid wave. What a view looking from the inside out. Looked a bit too fast & critical to get into for stand ups from the various pics & vid that I've seen.
looks like a rare wave i've had in SA . ( not monnie's , Way out West, or in the gulf ) . sand on reef though .
If one paddles, one must at least attempt. From a sustainability mindset that's just wasteage of a natural resource.
I'm with ty. Can't say whether I would have gone or not. If my confidence was up, maybe.
And props to both of them for at least being in position to attempt it, probably putting themselves in harms way from wide sets.
But fark, if they aren't at home giving themselves uppercuts then I'd be surprised. I know I would be. I suspect the sight of what was going down inside distracted them from what was in front of them, which looked eminently makeable.
Thankfully I don't have a facebook sign on so can't read the rubbish that would be going up there. Will have to go back to the other vid to see it in real time rather than slo-mo.
Will take the word of anyone who was out there as to how makeable it was.
Un-Australian.
where's this vid gone ? any help appreciated.