Ok, it’s not as long as Namibia and plenty of barrels required a doggy door escape, but any wave that can draw a comparison to one of the world’s longest barrels is worth a look.
“I may be over-exaggerating a little bit, it’s just that freaking good,” Nate Florence says after a four-hour session. “As good of conditions as…I’m just tripping right now.”
This, ladies and gentlemen, is what a year of travel restrictions and quarantines has done to us. Florence hasn’t had many (if any) opportunities to go on a surf trip in the past 12 months and it looks like a quick jaunt over to Mexico brought on a flood of claims and the miscalculate comparison to a certain African stretch of sand.
So let’s get back to the point at hand: surf trips are slowly slipping back into normalcy and if nothing else we can see that also means the joy of a marathon session in unreal conditions far away from home are coming back too. For those of us who are ready for such things and can manage to do so safely, this is all good news. So good you might be compelled to claim a wave or two…
“I’m sorry for the claims,” Florence says. “I don’t know why. All of a sudden my hands, on their own accord, just flew up after those two freaking waves…I feel like there’s a place for them. I don’t like to do it. I feel like it ruins the coolness of the barrel.”
