Watch: Epic Hossegor

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Stu Nettle (stunet)
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This year's Quik Pro France scored a bit of swell, though nothing exceptional. Just a few days after the comp ended, however, the best swell of the season arrived with two days of great waves and offshore wind.

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Bungan33 Monday, 8 Nov 2021 at 9:03am

So good....
I love old mates effort at 1:41. That is my surfing kryptonite. Perfect positioning, perfect wave, looking down the line, pre-planning the move, visualising the view and already thinking about what is about to happen - then BAM....suddenly you're on your arse and underwater. I usually come up laughing at my own hubris!

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stunet Monday, 8 Nov 2021 at 9:09am

What makes it even worse was the water photographer at the other end of that barrel.

Imagine the shot he could've got?

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Bungan33 Monday, 8 Nov 2021 at 11:31am

I missed that! He blew the barrel AND the glory and bragging rights. He was probably just exhausted from the 275th barrel of the day.....

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scrotina Monday, 8 Nov 2021 at 6:47pm

fark i lived in uk for 10 years, should have moved to france. reminds of my fave beachie here when its on

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ringmaster Monday, 8 Nov 2021 at 7:22pm

Great waves but that stretch of coastline is fuckle as fick.

Massive tides, ever changing sand and you really have to hang there for a while at the right time of year to get anything like those conditions.

You won't be surfing with just a handful on a good bank either.

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Bungan33 Tuesday, 9 Nov 2021 at 8:05am

I must have been lucky then...spent time at Messange - just north of it - and it was smoking the whole time and crowds were thinned out along the banks.

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groundswell Tuesday, 9 Nov 2021 at 7:30pm

Wollongong coastal beachies never handle that big of a swell, i wonder why? ulladulla beachies do...something i cant explain.
Good flick would kill for waves like that right now.