Keith Teboul goes vertical off the top
Super fun day out at Uppers yesterday, perfectly powered 2 hour session on 5.0. Lots of fun logo-high waves and miracle of miracles didn’t even get snaked by anyone. Got on the water a little before noon and the first hour was the most consistent. A bit of inconsistency in the sets overall, but just being patient and waiting for the better sets was the trick of the day. Pretty decent swell direction for Kanaha, which surprised me since I thought it was going to have too much west in it.
After my session on Friday I thought I’d see if I could get any video so I set up on the point between Lowers and Uppers and shot a bit of video of both. Both are pretty far away, especially Uppers, so the result is not that great, but I wanted to show a comparison of Uppers vs Lowers on a typical day. The two videos below are both shot within the same half hour time span and they show pretty well the difference in crowds between Uppers and Lowers.
Uppers:
Lowers:
Uppers tends to be less crowded and usually the waves are a bit bigger than Lowers, but the waves at Lowers usually a bit more readable than Uppers. In the Uppers video, it was getting pretty inconsistent.
After sailing yesterday, I stopped off at Hookipa. Tons of people there both on the water and on the beach. Lots of pros are back in town now that the tour is over, including Slalom champ Antoine Albeau. The Poor Boyz were out shooting some of the action. Here’s a few photos, video to come later.
