Watch: Nic Von Rupp Surfing "One Of The Best Waves in Europe"
"We're going to surf one of the best waves in Europe, at the exit of the Tejo [Tagus River]," says a coy Nic Von Rupp about this mysto wave.
Unwilling to talk it up too much, he continues: "It's a really long pointbreak that goes for like a kilometre. On the right swell there's thirty second barrels."
"So we're hoping to find the Namibia of Portugal right here, undiscovered."
Expectations low. Location unknown. Crowd factor zero.
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Nice and dreamy with glass, long winding right and SUNSHINE.
Right in the middle of the biggest city in Portugal.
Classic von flog.
Looked like fun though.
God, he's a prick of a sell-out.
Imagine having surfed that for years and years under the radar, and then he shows up and blows it right up.
Edit: and it's totally paddleable, but he has to have ski-assist.
100% agree with you on this. Drop a dislike and comment on his youtube page like quite a few have already
agree, this guy is the worst 'look at me, look at me 'around
I concur. Fun, yeah. Uncrowded today, yeah. Packed tomorrow, yeah. But 30 second barrels? I saw 3 second barrels. Everything about this guy seems x10. They don’t call him von froth for nothing. Tosser, yeah. Absolutely and unequivocally. x10.
how good was that! (a wave for normal humans). Wonder how often it breaks like that
undiscovered, now discovered.
Portugal has some great waves and a heap of surfers. I spent a fair bit of time at Praia de Mira. They love cooking sardines on the side of roads.
Going to go surf an undiscovered surf spot, with a local surfer, who has surfed it for years...
How come there doesn't appear to be anyone else out on such a great day? It might be fickle but if you do a google search there is plenty of info on the wave.
river entrances like that are hard to surf. real hard. sure u could paddle onto the wave but getting to the takeoff spot vs all the moving water is a different story.
Bullshit. With all due respect.
You can spot rips easily, and most of that footage was glassy. Figure out the tides, and you're good.
weve obviously surfed different rivermouths then. absolutely not bullshit around here. but i detest this bloke and what hes done here. not sticking up for him in the slightest. just talking rivermouths.
I know what you mean, but this is no normal rivermouth, more a big tidal estuary. And the sandbar is mostly disconnected from the flow, and out of the way to the south.
Cheers!
well if thats the case then you guys are correct. . looks similar to a wave around here and you wouldnt bother paddling it at that size, but it cops the full water flow of a big system.
I should have said "respectfully disagree...", but I was annoyed with NVR. Apologies.
haha all good. i realise my comment looked like i was sticking up for him which i definitely was not and would never.
The Internet. Where people argue over things they agree about :-)
There is one in Melbourne going the other way but you need slack tide and is heavier than this. Once the tide runs sayonara.
We have one particular very fickle river mouth here in SA, and while you can most definitely try to surf it on the change of tide, the push seawards from the sheer volume of water emanating from it drags you out faster than you can paddle back in. It breaks best on dead low tide but this coincides with the strongest river outflow. Sure, as the tide starts to flow in it negates this a bit, but the outflow still wins. You have to pick a wave as you are washed outwards before you’re out the back. The other bummer is the bank only forms properly when the river is almost flooding, which corresponds to the strongest outward flow. But having said this, the wave itself barrels it’s tits off as it moves in against the outflow. I’ve said too much…
I've had some great sessions at South Port too!
I’m guessing you aren’t a local at this rivermouth….
I can paddle from the island I’ve owned a house on for nearly 30 years. Unless you’re a cockle, that’s as close as you can get.
Fair enough. Enjoy then.
I've seen a certain NSW bar break like that, sketchy to be out so far but was amazing.
ssshhhhh....
Fortunately I don’t have any of the following
GoPro
JetSki
Facebook account
Insta account
Loose lips
Do a google pin drop so we have the GPS in where you are talking about and can check it out on google maps. Cheers.
What is this Google you speak of ?
It’s this thing on the internet with satellite pictures and maps and stuff. It was invented so you could check out wave set ups from space. I think Mark Zucchini invented it cause he wanted to learn how to ride a $10,000 surfboard AKA a foil.
Entitled
Arrogant
Self indulgent
Such a kook.
poo-man, what do you reckon?
haha about nvr or surfing the bar
I meant looks somewhat familiar :-)
Haha of course..... I'd never try paddling our one these days though. As easy as it seems i've just found myself so far out of position without motor power in the days before i had a motor. And as world class as it looks it's often too fast to make for very far. But its amazing that a place with such good lefts has at times such a good right too. Our one looks better than NVRs one i think
Yep, I wouldn't swap.
Dunno if you looked this morning but our one was awesome at 4 foot and the perfect peel speed for once. I didnt surf but my mate did for 2 hours with only a couple of others
I know. Was at work.
https://www.redbull.com/au-en/the-return-to-mar-da-calha-portugal
But the surfing in his Kandui vids is so good. Maybe I love the art, not the artist
I don’t think he’s exposing an undiscovered spot as it’s probably at the most heavily populated river mouth in Portugal.
If my daughter brought home a bloke that got towed into 3 foot point breaks by a jet ski, I'd be violent.
Ffffarrout that looks too good to be empty. Is there A.I. editing software that can remove "undesirables" from lineups,landscapes etc on film?
blokes having fun and sharing his dream. and you call him a kook. ha
The bloke is a rank capitalist. Will sell himself out for basically any brand, sells out quiet surf spots for his own fame, has a carbon footprint beyond anything we can imagine, and in doing so is part of the big corporate surfing machine that shouldn't exist. Basically a Kardashian of the surfing world. Almost every surfer on earth manages to just quietly go surfing, we shouldn't celebrate wankers who turn the whole thing into a money making exercise for themselves.
One word
Flog
Looks a little fat but fun!
Looks fun for sure long paddle from the beach tho. NVR is a goose, but living the dream.
Once upon a time....
not so long ago....
we watched & revered, supreme, elite, professional surfers doing there best;
Tom Curren...., Kelly Slater ....., John J Florence...etc
Now anyone not falling on surfboard; (with sunny multi camera edits) & a $ponsor get fame
Sorta like hearing John Stewarts' manicured song "Daydream Believer"
from the album 'The Birds, The Bees, & The Monkees' (1968)
.....compared with Lennon jamming hardcore rock with the Beatles
"Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey" 26 June 1968
So much hate for NVR.
Gawd, I would love to surf this place on a day like this.
I think most of us would. It's a beautiful thing, a big bar like that. It's the Von Flog thing that gets me.
Btw, I was too hasty condemning the ski use. Some of the footage does show them surfing within an easy paddle, but the peak is a good 3km from shore.
No sharks in Portugal.
No whackers on swellnet.
A new low bar for spot exploitation.