Watch: Eloy Lorenzo Junior at huge Ulus (updated)
Can't say I've ever head of Eloy Lorenzo Junior before. Fella comes from Brazil apparently, goofyfooter....and that's about all I know. But by tomorrow much of the surfing will know his name as Eloy and Russian big wave surfer Andrey Ovchinnikov were the two blokes out at Uluwatu Bommie during today's swell.
You've seen the shaky iPhone footage, now here's something slightly better. Shame old mate reverts to slo-mo in the first video, but towards the end of the clip you get a great angle of ol' Eloy careening towards the Outside Corner on a simply enormous wave.
Second clip, which is a different wave to the first, four waves were ridden during the session, shows Lorenzo swooping off the bottom and getting tight in the pocket.
PS: I'm still coming to grips with the term "Russian big wave surfer".
And now the drone footy. Same session, different wave.
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well its a fucking huge wave,must have been an awesome sight ,scary as hell i would think but what a rush seeing that line walling up for ....well forever......gotta be 30ft....?
That tow surfer is missing all the fun of surfing big outside corner. I can't believe anyone would pass up the chance of sitting way out to sea on a 9ft board, monitoring huge waves way beyond temples, getting caught inside, and then taking a steep-as-all-fuck drop. And then there's the fun of getting in and out of the water over the reef. That bloke doesn't know what he's missing out on with that towing malarky.
Sounds like a piece of cake.
easy peaasy maaaate
Yeah where would you get in and out when it is that big. Geez you could end up at Balangan.
Fkn Huge.. I'm giving it a 6garry rating on size.
Love to see some footage of the cave entrance on high tide on this swell
Cmon elroy give us one turn, just one.Giant ulus-check, helmet -check, life jacket-check, go pro-check,money enough to have a ski on Bali-check, someone to film you from the cliff-check, surfing skills-??? well you can't have everything.
No surfing skills?
ya kidding?
From last weeks swell, read the comments, he was the bloke sitting deepest and charging hardest.
Don't do the instagram. Maybe its just the slow mode that makes him look so stiff?
Tow surfing is more about he driving the surfing part is easy. I guess there will be more rides to see coming soon
Gotta agree mike.
Ample opportunity to get air (or semi floater) on that at the 3m mark, and the missed opportunity to throw in a big jon-jon carve right at the let go, right in the pocket.
Very lack lustre considering preparedness and the soft swell thats marching through up there.
mikehunt207. Anyone who has surfed genuine Outside Corner would be laughing at your "do a turn" comment.
Im talking about straight line tow surfing OC, hats off to anybody paddling out there
Great video that takes in the whole lineup plus a big arse beard.
Go full screen.
Gary reckons you’re sending mixed messages with your punctuation there, Stu.
If Gary had his way with your prose, he’d insert a hyphen (but only if you consent)
Is it a ‘Big-arse beard’, or a ‘big arse-beard’?
Gary reckons you’re sending mixed messages with your punctuation there, Stu.
If Gary had his way with your prose, he’d insert a hyphen (but only if you consent)
Is it a ‘Big-arse beard’, or a ‘big arse-beard’?
That's from the pool they stuck on the rock. Took them two goes to get it right. Amazing shot and it is actually coping with the size testament to an amazing reef.
That is fuckin wild !
Balibelly insta have part of Eloys wave...'Red Rocket Man'
Jim Banks insta - Jim was spectator only today.......With a Good comment from Murray Bourton...
One of those rare occasions where you could just about have it to yourself
Empty or very uncrowded huge Uluwatu is not rare at all. It happens all the time. Once it hits 10 foot the crowd thins dramatically because you've got to be prepared to take an absolute beating for your rides. A young bloke tried to get me to join him one day at the bombie. The cave was madness with spray coming up the stairs and almost hitting the ding repair shops. The young bloke surfed it alone for 4 hours and got two waves. Crazy bastard.
Pretty crazy how many big wave guys went up to nias when this was going down in a near empty line up.
I saw it with my own eyes, the only way you where going to safely negotiate with Mother Nature today was with a machine, i.e. jet ski. The biggest I have seen it in over 15 years. Rouge sets popped out of nowhere to catch anyone sitting two seconds too far in and I saw no one out anywhere along the coastline who did not have their ass handed to them in a matter of minutes. It was non stop sets after sets. Airport Rights was looking like Jaws on a clean 15 to 20 foot day.
Take any pics of Airport rights?
That was simply amazing and bigger than giant, insane actually
and im not trying to down play this guy he is a serious competitor.
Imo I do think though with jet just to get out there and cover for safety the
big wave heavy weights on their 10ft guns could paddle that and should.
That was simply amazing and bigger than giant, insane actually
and im not trying to down play this guy he is a serious competitor.
Imo I do think though with jet just to get out there and cover for safety the
big wave heavy weights on their 10ft guns could paddle that and should.
stunet thanks for sharing slapstick Surf Flick
Surfer cam Dude goes flying off the handle,down go the menus takes out breakfast table.
Please pass on my regards to dead & dying Token Hot Resort chick.
Surfer Cam Dude then elbows Concierge who surrenders his Box seat.
Cam dude running full pelt cameos some dynamo trick with the still closed window.
Just in the nick of time to run the clock down for last lick of the wave...He claims his prize!
Not done our Cam Hero prompts a Thumbs up from entire Resort Staff!
His drink is still there waiting for him & the best surf ever as main course. (Laugh a minute!)
Where's Laurie?
Nias.
Wheres Sancho ? normally all over Nias at size
RCJ...towing ugly cold bumpy 'The Right ' ?
Crazy..
Hows the shape of the wave for a thing that big it's perfect.
Nice conditions on Bukit this morning and a bit tamer than yesterday...but still plenty of size .
What a swell!
I'm still amazed, and happy, that an obscure Brazilian/Russian tow team scored the world's best waves to themselves, while the pros were all over Nias and the Mentawais. Bravo, guys!
Wonder where they launched the ski. Jimbaran?
Any news from Impossibles and Balangan? They must have been huge and possibly perfect. Nungas? Oooweee, I would have loved to see that.
Meanwhile, I surfed fat 2ft beachbreak lefts in 12C water and a stiff, icy offshores - and had a great time :-)
Looking at beardy's footage which give's it some overall view of how insane the swell was is Ulu's the world's best big wave?Would have to be up there.Water footage would of shown how wide some of those wave's were.I think the world's best big wave rider's are kicking themselves at the lost opportunity hope they don't have to wait another 20 years.
i didn't know the russians can surf.
Unreal ...best thing ever...meanwhile the ski driver has no idea if surfers still up and riding
busy behind scanning whitewater for board or rider.
Wondered about that. No spray coming off the top = no evidence he's still up. Does he keep gunning down the line?
You'd want that ski close. Wouldnt wanna take too many on the head.
Maybe the drone is the giveaway. If the drone's stopped: man down...
It has to be that for sure as the ski driver is flat strap not even looking for the surfer.
jason lunn photo- insta
Johhny D'amore paddle in on a 11'0 yesterday
In some of the biggest surf i've been in (half the size of that stuff), I know that it will amount to 1 or 2 waves then its over and there's no getting back out. Picking the right one is paramount, and going the wrong one and getting the beating of your life is by default the end of the session.
I can't contemplate the level of patience & precision this guy had to wait 4hrs for this to come through... the stamina it would take to maintain enough paddle strength to get into something that big after 4 hours of hard work, and then the pay-off of getting a massive one which then offered up a big hollow pit.
Russians have always been as best surfers in the universe in russia
That's what i'm talking about...........yeeeha..... giddyup!
Any more on this story? Who was it? how did they get in etc?
I've not surfed ulus with real size, what are the logistics in terms of paddling out? Do you still use the cave and just get washed down the line then paddle around?
Yeah apparently all good, with the guy being from Amsterdam and washing in at Bingin.
Fuck I reckon I’d nearly be done after that.
What was he doing at temples?!?
the russians claming it was oleg not eloy, so who was it? are both or them gooffy?
ron -Matt Aldridge surfed Ulu yesterday on a 9'0 Padillac - A 1hr wide paddle from Padang Padang to score 3 Bombs..good effort.
Saw his insta post. Fark, that's a good effort - and that Padillac looks sweet.
Hows the ribs on the face. Love to have some tech talk from Maurice on the bottom curves as he is trying new stuff with Ross as he doesn't make a single turn. It's just the one speed.
Personally Johnny D's shits all over the tow. He paddle wave is 7-8 times overhead and he got the biggest wave Muzza swell too. No instagram no photos no slow mo..just a lord
mysurf has a good link for a Nias vid
Amazing and so perfect. So used to seeing just take offs on those chubby Portugal waves. This is sooo good and soo long. In many waves very old school with a jet ski. Keep it up fellas.
I reckon a ski would have a problem getting in to pick you up if you fell on one those.
The sets were just non stop, I don't see there would be time.
They do have some balls though those ski drivers.
Damn
I'd need to wear a nappy if I was out in that stuff.....wait!...….what am I talking about, I'd never be out in that stuff.
Surfed some big stuff when a teenager growing up in the 70's and in my 20's through the 80's but now days pushing toward 60 it's more about fun, exercise and flow than adrenalin overdosing like I did when I was younger and seemingly oblivious to my own mortality, mortality of the body that is! Now it's all about the preparation for that final ride because everyone gets taken out by that wave in the end so best to be ready and know what's in store than ill prepared. ;-p
Absolutely amazing.
How incredible is it that this year, Cloudbreak and Ulus have shown that really huge waves can churn down the line like a freight train. My image of big wave surfing was always huge peaks, big Jaws style bombies, but these waves are sectioning, setting up tubes, reverting to walls, at enormous size and over really long distances.
Good story here from Nick Haynes. Paddle legend on the 11 footer snapped his board in three places, the middle section comes up with no glass on it at all. Bodyboarder who went missing swam for three hours and made it ashore at Bingin at 10pm.
Can you even surf a bodyboard in waves that big? Is that such thing as big wave swim fins? You would feel so terrifyingly small out there, flat bellied on the kind of surfcraft kids use to ride 1 foot shories, with a pair of swim fins on. Wild.
Stu, Gary can't help but feel a little rejected that you've ignored his proposition above. Gary didn't mean to offend you - most people would jump at the offer of having their prose penetrated with Gary's hyphen, but perhaps I've moved a little too fast for you.
Do we need to talk?
Perhaps Gary needs to take his courtship a little slower, maybe we should have coffee? You can choose whichever drive-through coffee shop you love the most and feel free to order a large; Gary's payin'.
Perhaps you'd like to be the first to insert the hyphen. As the moderator you could even thrust one into this comment right here without Gary's prior consent (spoiler alert: Gary's into that sort of thing).
XOXO,
G
Totally missed it!
Hopefully not too many people sat through the whole five minute video waiting for a big arse-beard to appear. To that sector of our readership, I apologise.
As for injecting hyphens, you'll have to look after your own, though I do suggest keeping them way from colons.
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Some of your best Gary...
G's comments always hit the spot. Old mate with his heavy squats and thrusts - less so (did I insert that right Gary?)
yep i second that crg, pissing myself!
All class, Gary. Wonderful!
Sitting here breaking up Gary!
Almost forgotten this Tow Day
Epic !
Massive swell Uluwatu RAW FOOTAGE 18 july _youtube
Some tow in some paddle in a Ruski or two.