Below a beast in Europe tamed by GMAC, pic and info on Billabong XXL site
Wow, it is mainland Europe and not in USA or Hawaii, what will the surf media do now?
Over a decade ago surfers were still migrating to the North Shore so as to quench their quest for surfing the 'biggest waves'.
A decade on and surfers are now basing themselves on the West Coast of Ireland, Portugal and other secret spots around Europe that present massive XXL waves courtesy of the North Atlantic.
To even write something like this short article, over a decade ago, you would have been laughed out of town or sent to a hospital.
Now, well the evidence is out there, big wave surfing is moving out of the old places. Big wave surfing is dynamic and organic so should we be surprised?
Anyway, this week in Europe there was a big wave contest in Basque country,
Those are just the spots that are highlighted in the surf media, the others are still being kept quiet for now and hopefully will stay that way for a while. I wonder, if we will now see a quieter North shore as an exodus to places in Europe occurs?
Just off the press, Surfline has run an article on Europes XXl swell (not swells) > Europe goes XXL
Time will tell, one thing is for sure, monsters are out there waiting to be ridden, good luck.
