MUNDAKA - The best wave of Europe ?

[@christopherconnolly600]

Lived for three years in the Basque Country in the mid 90's. Never forget the first time I surfed Mundaka. It's such an incredible wave.

[@salty-films]

I’m happy to bring back some good memories ! 👌

[@christopherconnolly600]

Thank you! Those were the days!

[@alexlamarcamorte7639]

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[@valizz12]

Le filming, le montage mamma🤌💥💥

[@salty-films]

Merci Val ! 👏✌🏼🤟🏻

[@kevinm5564]

You know what bugs me about Mundaka. I live in North Florida fully exposed to the open Atlantic ocean and it gets head high to MAYBE 2 feet over like 10 times a year. Mundaka faces the wrong way in a tucked away bay and gets waves 5 times bigger and 1000 times better than our best day here. Yeah Im jealous

[@hunterdavis3003]

Yep and don’t even get me started on the fucking Great Lakes!?! Bitter east coaster here too

[@XPHALCON]

@@hunterdavis3003 Roger that

[@davidanderson8469]

A friend vacationed in France the day after all of Europe went back to work. He'd go to Mundaka when the French spots got out of control.

[@mitseraffej5812]

Florida is on the wrong side of the ocean. If Trump wins in 2024 ask if he will redirect the global airflow and weather systems. Probably require reversing the Earths rotation but he could have it done in a day for sure. The Californian boys won’t be happy but they are mostly Democrats, point this out to him and he will be right on it.

[@guywhitworth5764]

The difference is that Florida is on an east coast, while Mundaka is on a west coast. As a general rule the west coasts of continents get way more swell than east coasts. Take South America for example. Brazil has similar conditions to what you've described above for Florida, while Chile and Peru get absolutely pounded by swell. It's the same here in Australia. Storms travel west to east, so Western Australia cops heaps of swell, and further north so does Indonesia, while the east coast of Australia is generally small. Sometimes a storm will swing up the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand, so it's generally better on Australia's east coast than it is in Florida. Yet while the Australian east coast is 4 foot, places like Raglan on the west coast of New Zealand will be 8-10, then two days later Cloudbreak in Fiji will be pumping 6-8 foot. A week later Tahiti will be firing, and then Chile and Peru will get swell, and if the storm is big enough, it will even reach up as far north as the west coast of Mexico. Interestingly the North Atlantic Ocean is the stormiest ocean in the world, so you guys are on the wrong side of the right ocean!

[@salty_adventures]

I think a bigger board, maybe a 7‘2 twinfin would help a lot in these conditions to generate the necessary speed to make the sections. People seemed to struggle to accelerate

[@salty-films]

Yes maybe ! But for the barrel I would recommend a truster and not twin fin 👀 what do you think ? 🤔

[@davidanderson8469]

Lots of wanking and little acceleration.

[@salty_adventures]

@@salty-films if I could try both I would 😂 it rarely barrels where I I‘m (Vendée, France), nice vid:)

[@paullns4713]

why thruster rather than twinfin for barrel ? isnt twinfin gonna generate more speed to make the section?@@salty-films

[@anaibarangan4908]

Mundaka! It's actually Basque, Bay of Biscayne, but same sea as Cantabria

[@alexandreheraly5696]

Non peut être… la pura onda〰️😝🤙🏽

[@salty-films]

Ahah oui bien dit ! 🤙🏻

[@cliffordbarber5997]

I hear the locals are pretty heavy, Any chance of catching a wave?

[@salty-films]

Some people say that locals are rude and some say that’s they are chill so I don’t really ! I think if you respect them it’s okay ! 🙏

[@antonioarrasategojenola7436]

Locals??? 98% of the crowd is not local.

[@bevholbeche-eyre1093]

Missed opportunity. Dire editing🙄

[@salty-films]

Thank you for you comment, do you have any advice in editing ? I would love to see :)

[@gaelcogne330]

@@salty-films goergeous waves, they deserve to be seen in full, from take-off to the end

[@salty-films]

@@gaelcogne330 Yeah true ! I wanted to do a dynamic editing with short clips ahah

[@edfastriveradventure]

ooof...

[@salty-films]

Ahaha yes 🤯

[@colin1626]

Closeouts

[@salty-films]

Yes some close outs ! But some really nice barrels also !

[@tommybyrne5745]

😂😂😂😂

[@tommybyrne5745]

Il bet it’s not firing like that all the time ..,.Prius &cons , I was meant to be there and Portugal but now I’m in the midlands of Ireland painting 😂😂😂gif waves in co Sligo on Tuesday though ♥️

[@salty-films]

@@tommybyrne5745 yes it’s not always like that ! but when the swell is good it’s incredible !

[@tommybyrne5745]

@@salty-films , next year hopefully in my CI midi 7’3.

[@Nalu747]

What the reason for the competition jerseys is it to mark locals

[@salty-films]

It was the local Competition of Mundaka ! : instagram.com/mundakakosurftaldea?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA==

[@lennybars8639]

No

[@joeblow1942]

Mostly closeouts.

[@salty-films]

Ahah yes some 😅