Watch: Senegal off the hook
Senegal - off Africa's west coast, and noted for its inclusion in 'The Endless Summer' - pops up on the radar every so often, usually when the North Atlantic synoptics are in overdrive. Here's a short clip from young French surfer Sam Piter, scoring some filthy Senegalese waves.
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Did anyone else hear Homer Simpson singing?
Yea found the clip better viewing in mute mode after about 15 seconds.
ha ha
No, but I very much enjoyed old mate trying to drag his goat in for a dip.
Haha, didn't notice that first up. Goat wants no bar of it.
Dumb cunts.
How frothing would you be as a grom that scored waves like that in a far away place. But then again, when I was a grom, if I scored waves like that at a far away place, I would have been bashed for even mentioning it to someone, let alone rolling up with a film crew to shoot an edit to be splashed around the world.
I'm a grumpy old man these days it seems...
Electing not to be the type of moron that blows quiet surf spots into the limelight for a few likes on social media doesn’t make you a grumpy old man , it makes you able to go there again without having to compete with the extra 4000 surfers who saw your video .
Not to mention it’s fucking rude to ruin a spot for everyone who’s ever surfed it without telling everyone just so you can have your 2 seconds of internet fame.
Therefore , the surfers involved are in fact dumb cunts.
It's not a quiet surf spot/area for Euros, and particularly not for the French. Not quite like Bali for the Aussies, but definitely on the radar.
Yeh I loved it but I just kept thinking"fuck,why wouldn't u just call it somewhere else"...I dunno,even make up a name. Let the clues be the only give-away...
Having said that,it was Headline surf news in 1966...and look at the numbers in the water :)
Now that was different. Enjoyed that.
"Electing not to be the type of moron that blows quiet surf spots into the limelight for a few likes on social media doesn’t make you a grumpy old man , it makes you able to go there again without having to compete with the extra 4000 surfers ....." Totally subscribe to this sentiment and have also dwelt on the marked cultural shift in surfing that has resulted in such outcomes...there's this broader society that seems to reward reveals, there's the older surfers who failed to verse these types in respect for locals and their breaks, there's the peeps who subscribe to online surf forums and afford those who drive such sites, and post these films, a living and then there's the people who admin such sites and choose the content, including this sort of thing we're discussing etc etc etc etc etc etc etc
I thought i don't believe all these guys r wasting so much time posting comments on a 1.5 min surf clip. I also thought I wish I was as good as that grom, prob was wen i was his age, but now just an old guy enjoying viewing surf clips without thinking about th politics - get a life u guys - go fr a surf ! Glen Murdoch South Oz.
...Just out of the surf...."I thought i don't believe all these guys r wasting so much time posting comments on a 1.5 min surf clip......." says the guy posting a comment on a 1.5 minute surf clip....
It's been in surf mags for a good 20 years now. In some film clips as well. Not far from the main part of town anyway, but the opening layout shot makes it way too obvious. Nice waves though. I'd be happy to surf them.
It’s not political, it’s about being able to catch a wave without 80 dickheads threatening to drop in on ya.
If all anyone has to do to preserve that feeling a little bit longer is not publish their latest surf adventure on the internet then it’s the easiest way in the world to stay stoked.
Obviously a struggle for some to understand.
Glad no one knows where my secret spot is... on the forgotten island of.. Santosha...
But your secret spot is packed with the biggest tossers in the surfing world.
Senegal was the first place they went in Endless Summer that was in 1964 its all Bruce's fault."Hey there's no waves in Tahiti".Surfer's have no sense of history.
Why don’t you have a sense of history ?
Is it a medical condition ?
No sense of Eastern seaboard driven dribble I think it's called, incurable I'm afraid.
Easily fixed....and they’ll even serve you beers as you’re flying away from the problem.