Push the ether-soaked cotton-balls of Skeleton Bay's long tubes to your nostrils…
Last month, the Australian-Born, Hawaii-based surfer/POV expert Anthony Walsh joined the conga line of goofyfooters to Africa’s south-west coast.
Mr Walsh, who is in his mid-thirties and was a middle-run qualifying series pro surfer for a time, is an expert in point-of -view cameras and the various accruements that you can buy for your GoPro. All the best shots from our Girl Goes into Orbit series earlier in the year, the drone flying through town, it soaring over the beach, the behind-the-surfer shots, all came from his expert hand.
It occurred to me, later, as I paid invoice after invoice that I could’ve just brought along Anthony, sat back, and watched it all unfurl.
Anyway,
Skeleton Bay, as you know, is the wave du jour, as was P-Pass in Micronesia a dozen years ago and, more recently, the points of Salina Cruz in Mexico. And Anthony likes nothing much more than pushing the ether-soaked cotton-balls of Skeleton Bay’s long tubes to his nostrils.
While this clip is hardly news, it is intimate and warm and gives the viewer the chance to inhale without the uncomfortable business of having to get to Africa and make an impossible drop in very cold water.
Watch!
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he’s an Evans Head boy.
Unless it’s a 30 second barrel or longer, I ain’t watching. That Busey look-alike kid ruined this spot for all other gopro joes.
best front side tube-rider this side of the Pacific
I’d love to go out there when it’s pumping, catch the wave of my life promptly followed by a flogging against the sand I’ll never forget
But once you make the drop, it’s a cakewalk.
Wait, I thought GoPros were uncool ’round these parts. But I like this. Dilemma!
and how many seconds of tube time would it take to erase the fury of that burn @0.35ish?? That was danger!
Out of solidarity with MC, all BG readers and writers should stop watching these awesome POV videos. Incidentally, on the other website, they showed a Skeleton video that was not too amazing, and certainly far from endless barrels.
cheers brezzo!