Seal Point

Another great day in Sweden with headhigh waves, sideshore wind and a bit of current. Compared to recent sessions this one wasn't much, even though this was a worthwhile session with heaps of good rides.



This late summer and early autumn has been amazing. We have had some epic days both in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. If you asked me one year ago I would never believe that you could find conditions like these in Scandinavia. I would probably say "nah you are kidding me, to surf you'll have to go to Hawaii". But here we are, in little sheltered Denmark and we have had more than a handful of good sessions in one month. That is incredible, though you could get even more good days if it wasn't for the work and family responsibility. Most of the time it is only weekend surf as the weekdays are spent working. So who said that you cannot surf in Denmark?

Vince throwing a big snap off the lib.


Rider: Vincent Bakker

Must be viewed large. It's a shame, this shot had been much better taken from down the line.

Aerial time!!!


Rider: Vince Bakker

And here is the proof, we got headhigh to over-headhigh waves.


Rider: Vincent Bakker

Notice that this dude is a 2 m man!

Here's some more pics

Lets hope that the autumn and winter offers similar conditions.

Tomorrow I'm off to Portugal for 10 days. See you ;)

Hossegor or Agger

Friday night at 04 am the alarm clock buzzed and it was time to get up. A 5 hours drive was awaiting and the forecast was looking quite good. No problem getting up knowing that we soon would get some waves. When we arrived it was nearly flat and a long and painful waiting period started. First in the late afternoon the first surfable waves arrived and we hit the water even though it was a messy onshore wind swell. A little is always better than nothing!

(haven't got a single photo of the crappy conditions)

Sunday morning we woke up at sunrise and hit straight to Agger.



This was our first sight!

We had 1.5-2 m swell and 0-2 m/s offshore wind all day.


Rider : Olaf

A semi barrel


Rider: Vincent Bakker

Radical takeoff


Rider: René Brask (me)

Have to admit that I got wiped on this one after the first buttomturn.

Massive cutback


Rider: Vincent Bakker

And the big question, Hossegor or Agger?



Floater?


Rider: Vincent Bakker

End of session



After 6 hours in the water it was time to head back to Copenhagen. A super way to spent a Sunday. Believe it or not, this weekend the Quiksilver DM Championship was suppose to go off but it was canceled!!! why ?

More pics here

Summer swell

It has been three weeks without waves at the northsea due to a prevailing high pressure above Denmark. Now things are back to normal with continuous incoming front systems from the west and we got a reminder of how good the northsea can get.



This was one of the bigger waves, not too bad huh?


Rider: Unidentified

The sandbar both delivered good lefts and rights


Rider: Unidentified

The rights was really good, fast and super hollow. Some of the guys got some tube time :)


Rider: Unidentified



All photos are shot before we went in and I think it's mostly Germans in the lineup.

Whitsun in Hanstholm

Here's a few photos from our last trip to Thy. We had 2 days with something close to epic windsurf. Two days with good wind, big waves and sun :)



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This is from Sunday afternoon just before we got in the water, at this time the waves was still quit small. During our session the waves got bigger and the wind got better and we surfed until dawn... This was the best session of the season until now!



Really like this one with the spay from a pier in the foreground and the lone windsurfer in clear blue water

Monday the wind stated blowing again in the afternoon and within a hour it changed from nearly wind still to gale force. We sailed 4.2 which was our smallest, even though we could easily have sailed 3.7. Here is a few shots from Monday.







It was quite hard to hold the camera still in 16 m/s thus I had to discard most of the photos as they was unsharp.