A fight worth having.
I’ll tell you true, I adore all of Scandinavia, each and every bit. From Santa’s home in Finland’s north to Karl Ove Knausgård’s farm in Sweden’s south. I love Denmark’s crisp air, Norway’s Mikkel Bang. The clean furniture, salted anchovies, happy people, Highasakite… all of it, and so when I heard that a brave band of Swedish surfers were going to war against monied interests and swimmers to save their beloved wave, well, I felt their fight my own.
Professional surfer Freddie Meadows (watch below) is out front, rallying those around him in support of Mölle, a stone’s throw from Copenhagen.
On Instagram, he wrote, “On behalf of myself and countless others – I ask you not to allow the unnecessary destruction of our beloved wave at Mölle. A natural phenomena, and quite frankly a miracle along Sweden’s Kattegat coast. The wave is an icon, an attraction, an inspiration… Something that the majority of the town of Mölle is, and should be be extremely proud of! Another swimming area is just another of the many nearby swimming areas, and can easily be placed elsewhere. A wave of this quality, rarity and beauty cannot… Once again, I speak on behalf of myself and thousands of others – PLEASE DON’T DESTROY OUR WAVE. RECONSTRUCT YOUR PLANS.”
I immediately reached out to know what the problem was, how I could help. He responded, “They’re planning on building a 25m long wall to create a swimming area that will most likely destroy the wave. There is already an abundance of swimming areas both in Mölle and close by, the wave is pretty much a miracle on that coast and provides such joy to so many people. Plus a huge attraction for the town of Mölle in general.”
Swimmers. Bastards the lot of them.
In any case, this is better than “fight the bight” so stand up with Sweden’s surfers and make your voice heard.
I sure would love to surf it, someday.
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Sweden, you have a Surfing culture with beautiful waves and your trying to replace it with man made structures. Building a wall in the Sea? That can’t be good for any culture
Just build some more pools… that’ll fix it! Call Slater up.
What a great little film. I feel ignorant now.. I
Didn’t know that Sweden had waves nor pro’s. I’m guessing this bloke with be in the Olympics rep’n the Swedes?
I’ll check it out.Thanks
My strategy for writing papers in college was to throw some stuff on the paper,
the more the merrier, then whittle it down with about five edit sessions.
revise revise revise. Not so good for the comments of a web site.
The main reason for my deleting is that I don’t feel like defending whatever I wrote half the time.
Spent so many hours driving to surf spots with other friends in the car. Usually one person becomes the target of attacks for pure entertainment. I just liked smoking weed and staying out of it, lol. With no radio reception in Big Sur it would become especially brutal.
Yeah he’s a top notch dude in every way. I did a profile with him last year, coming soon in TSJ 30.3
21.20 sequence is hauntingly beautiful. Music is good too.
Worth fighting for. Ge järnet, grabbar!
My first baby steps as a surfer were taken just across Øresund in Denmark, and all of Kullen Peninsula is close to my heart.
They’ve even released a map of the potential spread of swimmers across the coast if one of them breaks the proposed containment line. Shocking. https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
It does my heart good to hear somebody speak of such affinity, love for a wave.
Hope you have a good Easter Sam. It was my mothers favorite holiday.
Thank you c4, hope you have a good, blessed Easter also!
I think is likely the intervention of the co-founder of BeachGrit will be the deciding factor for Sweden’s government. Chas is a superhero to the “countless others” demanding action.
Swimmers – the Prius drivers of the ocean!
They seem like overly sensitive human manatees.