Kai Lenny, what can you say, he’s the ulimate waterman and pushes the limits, again and again. Check out his POV footage of Jaws, helicopters, flying boards and surfers, heavy, heavy hold downs, rescues and more. Insane stuff, we salute you.
Jaws was on another level on Saturday, watch all the action here. Featuring surfing from 12 year old Steve Roberson, Kai Lenny, Justine Dupont, Eli Olson, Paige Alms, Nathan Florence, Makua Rothman and many others.
A few wipeouts from Mavericks on January 10th, 2021. Amazing how these big wave surfers can handle such force from the ocean. Featuring Ian Walsh, Jack Akrop, Jamie Mitchell, and more. Respect to all the crew and safety teams involved.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48mQbJVK3kI
Chuck Patterson In his own words.
“First turns of the Winter season,” absolutely crazy epic day at Mavs. Stoked to do a last minute road trip and see all my friends charging on a crazy heavy day of days 🙌 Always love keeping it spicy!
Spicy is one word for it Chuck.
Planning transcontinental surf trips against the backdrop of a global pandemic isn’t the easiest of affairs. Travel bans, quarantines, testing…etc. Equally, getting friends from afar to home shores is just as tedious.
Enter Eithan Osborne. One of California’s most promising exports, and no brighter moment in such weird times than being a person holding three passports. American, Israeli and most crucially–French.
“Wait, Eithan has a French passport? Let’s get him over!”
This was the gist of the conversation one cloudy September afternoon. However, what we weren’t prepared for was Eithan’s eagerness. Four days later, there he was in the arrivals of Biarritz airport. Negative covid test in hand. Ready for all of the beers, some of the wines and maybe, just maybe, some surfing. And with the biggest storm of the year approaching, our timing wasn’t exactly ideal with every spot in the North Atlantic looking maxed out—so naturally, our eyes turned to novelty. And nothing is more novel than the Mediterranean.
Oh The French Riviera!
Could anything be more novelty. Could anything be more luxurious. Is this the birth of luxurious novelty? Luxnov? With the car loaded, we dream of wedges breaking off the bow of an oligarch’s super-yacht. A few turns to the beach and then being invited up for caviar and Champagne. With one of the better swells over the past few years on the charts, it very much looked like we were about to find out.
72 hours later, we head back to the Atlantic side with tired eyes and wry smiles. With fun waves and weather on the charts, we link with local surfer and ‘Bong stable mate’ of Eithan’s, Justin Becret, adding a hint of local favour to the crew for the last few days of Eithan’s stay. With a stellar career on the pro-juniors under his belt, if it’s taught Justin one thing in the process, it’s consistency. He can punt with the best of them, with an outstanding track record of landing. He’s also a dab hand in the tube, and watching him and Eithan going head to head on the ramps of Capbreton and the tubes of La Gravière was more than impressive. We can’t help but feel the future of the bong stable is in a good place.
As that draws to a close to this year’s French Atlantic shenanigans for us. With a change of pace, a different coast, an absence of premiere tour but a large slice of novelty.
All in all, not bad for the surf trip that wasn’t meant to be.
Beaux Rivages
Huge swells have sent Northern California XXL, Mavericks has been off the scale. Points began to fire all up and down the coast, a group junior sailors were in the middle of a sailing lesson when a clean up set took them all out while trying to enter a Santa Cruz harbour. Surfer’s in the line-up came to the rescue, good work all involved.
