A South Pacific storm over-performed to deliver solid, late-season SW/SSW swell this October. The local summer has been treating Newport Beach well with a good season of hurricane swells.
Surfing The Wedge is not for the faint of heart. Huge wipeout and barrels went down this session. The same south swell MXP Warriors event at Puerto Escondido. This specific swell ranks in the top-five largest swells of the SPAC season and reminded us a lot of the fire swells of 2007.
O’Neill Strike Missions is a film series documenting Team O'Neill’s surf adventures across the globe. It’s all about tracking swell and striking when the time is right, hoping the gamble pays off and the risk is worth the reward. In the end, the journey is often as memorable as the destination.
This episode of O'Neill Strike Missions: Tierra Del Fuego, Team O’Neill athletes Ian Crane, Robbie McCormick and Noah Wegrich packed their bags and headed for Santiago. The picturesque, yet harsh landscape found throughout the trip was the perfect testing ground for our latest Holiday 2022 gear. Not to mention a goofy footers dreamland. The shores of Chile, South America have been well documented for their flawless left point breaks. Some might argue as the best in the world. This trip did not disappoint. Exploring a seemingly endless opportunity for world-class surf, from thundering left-handers found on the South Coast to the dry deserts and hollow barrels in the North. Hitch a ride as we hunt for waves and navigate diverse terrain while tearing into one of the seasons best southern swells.
The swell had stuck around overnight and a nice offshore wind blew through the lineup, the early surfers who got there had the best of it before the wind swung to the north at 7am - hit play for the hurley-Burleigh megamix.
20 minutes well spent with the Channel Islands crew of rippers including Parker Coffin, Mikey February, Dane Reynolds, the Gudauskas brothers, Luke Swanson and many more.
Portraying the physical and emotional struggle involved in professing the love of surfing and how it becomes a condition of life rather than a sport. A visual reflection of how surfers turn all that fear of an uncontrollable force of nature into an obsession. - Andrés Sánchez Belzunces
Waiting Game - Reubyn Ash, Joss Ash & Jobe Harriss tear up an October swell.
Music: 'I wish that I was a madman' by Staffan Carlen provided courtesy of Epidemic Sound
Filmed & edited by Adam Norris of Offshores Photo.Â
