A road trip to Spain's best left point break
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- Опубликовано: 19 ноя 2022
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With a big swell on the cards, likely too big for the beachies up in Hossegor, some friends and I decided to shoot down the coast to Spain for a little surf trip. We'd heard rumours of a snapper-like left-hander and fun, rippable beach breaks so obviously, without much hesitation, we jumped at the opportunity.
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Nice vid. I'd always prefer to have a crappier wave on a nice quiet day with no one out, than a perfect wave that's super crowded.
Me too :)
Oy Kale, Cheers For that Video. I am a Germán living in the basque country and been surfing spots Up and down the Coast. Berria IS amazing!
I always wondered how that wave looked on a big swell and wether it was worth the trip (I live in Biarritz). Seeing the crowd you just saved me some time :) thanks!
yeah theres even a jetski XD
You can't go anywhere now without there being a crowd. Even if you avoid places with bloody surf schools, it's crazy the world over.
great vid, loved the graphical breakdown of locals, border patrol and non locals, that was hilarious!
Good vídeo, bit I do not agree, the best wave in Spain is Mundaka, in Euskal Herria.
He didn’t say best wave. He said best left hand point break
@@mendellang8379 Mundaka is a left point...
This was also probably the day when Mundaka was huge and looked like a slab haha. I do think he could argue that Mundaka is a Rivermouth wave and not a point break. But I also agree with you🤷🏼♂️
@@nottherealChickenJoe Yes, it's probably those days. Let's see if he goes through Mundaka and tries that wave.
A point usually wraps the swell down a headland like this video, a rivermouth (mundaka) is quite different. Unless the river mouth is just a gap in a pointbreak haha
Speaking of Spain. I just got home from north Tenerife, punta del Hidalgo. The waves got to a point beyond my skill level but still super clean. I had no idea they had so good waves there. Worth looking in to
I lived there for one year. What a place.. I love it!
love da point on your board great thing for foot placement
That segway into the sponsor ad was about as smooth as the guy on the motorised board 😅
Fun vid, keep em coming 👍
🤣🤣🤣😆😂😅
Awesome Kale, that is a sick left hand point break! Curious as to what those glasses you got on 4.18? They are choice! Great content bud
What board were you riding?
Second beach is a great place when is not summer! The first one…well there are great restaurants in that town 😂
Beautiful place
In El Berria now. Jad some ok waves yesterday but was cut short by the dreaded weaver fish sting.
What spot is this? Am in Morocco right now, will head up to spain in a little while, need to pay this a visit!
Basque Country has so many good breaks and can rip. Less localism and a nicer bunch of people so many quiet spots away from places like mundaka which is unreal but the Basque Country has so many other great breaks 👌👌
Love the lefts in Spain
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You found the left version of Snapper :D. If you're still there, we had a great session at Laredo.
wuaoo how i can find that point ? now i live in asturias but i would love to go in this point
Enjoy mate! I am embarrassed looking at the behaviour of the crowd (won't call them locals) ...I hope you've got better experiences around. I've been there in Sydney, in Maroubra and I had never have an issue with the locals whatsoever.
Try surfing the river at Rodiles. You get shouted at just for looking at the takeoff zone 😂
😂 🥱
Go anyway, I am from there (close), The one that screams is more into screaming than in taking waves. He can barely stand on the board and he is not even from there (but 30km west😂😂😂) . Then when he leaves that place to surf somewhere else(it does not work that frequently) ... He is kicked out. "Locals" in there are basically a joke themselves (like everywhere really).
true, rodiles is insane. great wave though. only pity it cant be surfed by anyone besides the 15 locals there... that was the craziest shit i have ever seen in water.
surfed it alone in 1981-83. There and Mundaka as basically there wasn't a spanish surfer in the whole country. Now surfing is for kooks, mostly
Ha probably ran into you there....surfed Rodiles totally on my own for hours....Mundaka with maybe 6 out.....mostly tourists..oh well!@@martinginsburg7222
Morocco on the cards for the trip bro?? I'll be there beginning of December, score some sick right points...? So sick to see you surfing all these spots in Europe dude
what is the name of the beach???
Sick !! Interesting place bruva, original 🤙🏼
I’ve never gone to surf it even though I’ve lived here for a few years now (same for mundaka) for that reason that it’s full, and now it’s getting silly. Great to see you scored it, should be good this weekend…. And berria is so much fun!
MUNDAKA is definitely the best left in Spain and probably the best wave in Europe.
Cooks yelling at other cooks is a good abstract of any Spain/Portugal/France crowded pointbreak. Dream waves and nightmare people, don't usually worth it for me, I can tell from your expression that it is the same for you.
Confital beach in Canary Island is the best left wave in Europe.
@@ignaciovilarino4465 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Hey Mate..
Where in Spain is that lefty?
Looks fun, but where exactly have you been 🎉?
Yes please on that left. Hit that bad boy for a couple days then Mundaka mate. I'd be psyched out of my brain. Hope your trip was killer buddy. That board looks sick mate. Yew. G*
P.S. Here's a GREAT show to check out buddy, "BRASSIC" Extremely good show out of the UK. That second session board LOVES to smack close outs!!!!!!
Always love your vids kale, 😁😁 please do some workshops over here in Europe. Xx
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What!!! Nooooooooo ok on it 😁😁
De las mejores y más largas olas de España 🇪🇦🇪🇦🇪🇦
Un día al año
nice kale!
Omg I was probably there at the same time. Which I'd seen you, would have said hi :)
Rodiles River mouth in Asturias is very good as well
Pero no lo digas membrillo
Where is the beautiful left although with some crazy locals!
You ended up at the beach where I surf, Laredo!
brush! I was thinking of going to that spot but have heard some shitty things about the localism over there that put me off and that your video kind of confirmed being true! I'm going to Marocco for two weeks (also crowded) flying from Toulouse. I still have about one week before my flight to surf around that part of Europe do you think it's worth checking out the left or should I maybe go to friends in Portugal (crowded as well)? I'm a confident intermediate pot advanced but not in your league for sure. Would love to hear what you think
France or Portugal :)
thank you always kale, you are the best
It's so good to see you fly the Australian Modern surf venturer very well.
Professional content and good feel.
You ripped the inside bowls...
🙏🏽 I appreciate you watching
So the Spanish are messy and scandalous, and Australians are like sweet mermaids that salute you with joy and celebration when you arrive to the spot in Maldives or Bali. Awesome 😂
I didn’t mention Australians
PS, I see Portugal is getting swell again. Madeira island too. Big waves like North Shore HI on Madeira. Flight from Lisboa when I went was $80.
If you get a chance check out mundaka at low tide. Super hollow
Too many ppl for me
Mate! I've been thinking about doing the north coast of Spain all the way arount to Portugal. Loving the footage and inspiration.
So many good surf beaches I am living in San Sebastián and there are atleast 5 good beach breaks within 20 mins of me and generally good surf all year round. Biarritz and mundaka are both around an hour and a half from here and Somo and sopelana are a bit further but easily day trippable 👌👌👌
@@joshuabrewster217 Very envoius! Always been a dream place to live.
Welcome to Spain Mate! Locals here tend to bully more than to protect or educate. It's also cultural, spaniards like to show off. Surf has also gone mainstream here, good breaks are always crowded. Hint: "Pay local taxes", that means, leave the first weave you have priority on to them, they will see it and let you pick one. It even works sometimes 😆. Good luck, stay safe.
It is funny as I've been out for some years, and when I am coming back I see guys of 30 years old telling me that they are locals and so on... When they were peing on their nappies I was already surfing there in peace...if you need help to find good uncrowded spots let me know.
Si entras con respeto y esperando el turno no tendrás problemas. Como en casi cualquier sitio
Generally haven’t seen this to be honest over the last two years living in the Basque Country people have always been helpful
Estoy de acuerdo pero no como un australiano (que soy) en playa de rodiles.... no importa cuantas olas que das al otros o esperas... fatal ! @@joseberezo1987
Your surfing on the darkarts has gotten noticeably more spicy
It’s a PU this one but thank you!!
Where is this surfing spot????
@2:23 You gotta remember they drive on the other side of the road over there
Perfect for my moonraker
What part of spain?
Cantabria. Santoña. This spot is called La Fortaleza
Congratulations, you have made a secret spot no longer so secret.
yea it looked like malibu on a saturday clownboy.
Cantabria spots are completely overcrowded lately..miss the good old times :😢 😜
Nice video as always and also nice to have you around Spain! you should think about coming to the Canary Islands! hit me up if you so, im kin to show you the best spots in Tenerife :)
I have heard the locals are even worse there!
@@KalesBroccoli haha. yes. afterwards you can do follow up of your vid about localism. especially the new trend where locals also try to take over mellow intermediate spots shouting at every new face.
@@KalesBroccoli Indeed
@@KalesBroccoli Way to real
insanely crowded!
hello Kale we met in seignosse,and then in the plane to maroco,where i had a good trip ! Hope you the same !
Brother hope you had a great time!!
2:21 Drops in, stays in and then even has the nerve to complain... what a fkn KOOK.... 🥴 And dude the motorboat guy zippin trhough people... wow. I'm getting aggro just sittin here 😰
lol
Many Spanish guys seem to suffer from small man syndrome
2:17 why did you snake him kale?🤣
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I don’t understand the logic of the people who do this 😂
It became breaking news when the left wing of the seagul took a break while trying to curve the knight😂
It's became a right curve for the left break, aka the curve bullet sun on the Qur'an holder when there was a Qur'an debate
This why Evelyn and skeletor are being used to eat at McDonald's because the lies and deceptions backfired
hate point breaks when traveling.. its nearly impossible to get a wave as the locals take priority and then if you manage to get one good wave the chance of getting dropped in is so damm high lol
2.23 where old mate that dropped in gives the 'WTF?' arms when he looks behind him....different rules at different breaks I guess.
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I walked that entire coastline in one month, from Biarritz, France, to Ribadeo. I’ve seen all those beaches. I remember seeing some surfers occasionally, but not a lot. I remember that town with the Left, but there was no one surfing it. I remember it being choppy and wind whipped, as I walked my way past and out of town. I walked across Spain twice, and generally, the Spanish have no rules, especially in things like surfing. You could go out to a restaurant and tell the waiter to just give you a bottle of orujo and they’d just give you the booze free for having eaten there. Just kinda weird stuff I remember. It was kinda like the Wild West. I was a Spanish instructor at my local Uni and my grad instructor was from Spain and she did her thesis on Spanish women being the world’s largest curse word users. Interesting you said they were all yelling out in the lineup…they were probably just cursing and being loud which is like, in large part, their culture. In fact, one of my favorite sayings is comprised of entirely the F word. I was taught to say this to Spanish women I wanted to hook up with…remember vulgarity is commonplace in Spain: joder joder, que no joderemos, pero joder, que ganas tenemos! Translation: F F we’re not gonna F, but F we really desire to F. Also remember: el hombre como el oso cuanto mas pelo mas hermoso. And: la cebolla crece la polla. Ahhh the F’ing Spanish, gotta love them. Enjoy the pinchos mate. Aloha.
If you have come to Spain and those are your conclusions, it is better not to return, we do not need ungrateful people.
Ha - someone's got a jetski!
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2:22 😂
Those whose sole aim is to seemingly get as many people surfing as possible maybe shouldn't bitch about crowds....just sayin'
Weird interpretation of my work.
Welcome to Europe! Here there is NO ÉTIQUETTE, it just doesn't exist
Imagine how crowded with kooks it's going to get with wavepools surfing becoming the in thing
Or wave pools might distribute the crowds
(More evenly)
Go to el brusco it’s next to where u r at
What a nightmare. I’ve surfed mundaka and other spots around Spain and the crowds are uninformed and have no idea what they are doing yet act heavy and like complete dickheads. It’s wild. How’s the Jetski and skisurfer guy and the drop ins?! I’d lose my mind.
La fortaleza ! You need massive swell
Please shut up, don't you think there are enough people in the water already?. Joder puto bocazas
Well Busy.
Sucks traveling to avoid a crowd only to have to surf with another crowd.
Broccolo that's a bald statement, considering you have Mundaka and el Quemao in Spain
First love your vids 🎉❤
Where is this, love the content though.
Spain
Happy to be retired from Surfing ... surfed all these places before the spaniards in the beginning of the 80's ..very few of them where surfing ...
you and me both. Surfing is now a sport for kooks. But there are still some places.
Where I live on a bluff I have surfed solo since I moved here 3 years ago. Only solo never one person out. Hint: need a thick wetsuit
I don’t understand the guy who dropped in then was annoyed at you… Is there a local etiquette that you drop off the wave at a certain point? Or was it a local paddling back out, and decided to mess with you?
I guess that’s the best thing about a Beach break, the rides might be shorter but there’re always multiple peaks to take off on.
I agree. A good solid beach break seperates the men from the boys.
I have no idea 🤣🤣
I think he just wasn't paying attention and then assumed Kale had snaked him. Looks a bit funny when you have the whole picture but just an innocent (if careless) misunderstanding on his part.
nice vid kale.....
but seriously....
the best left in spain is mundaka.
and its daylight between mundaka and anything else.....!
as for localism in spain. its probably similar to localism at north narrabeen, maroubra, mereweather, etc in australia 25 to 40 years ago at the choice places like mundaka, meñakoz, rodilles, etc.
Kale, just subscribed. I think you have good intentions at heart and I trust your instincts on "fairness" in the lineup. At this crowded lineup, don't you think that there is a cap on how many waves you should get? I mean if you get ~5 excellent waves maybe its a good time to start helping others in the lineup and share the stoke and even waves. This guy dropping in does seem goofy and I do not condone this behavior. But perhaps in his perspective, you have caught so many waves, making it impossible for others to ride a wave. I wonder what is fair!
I appreciate the sentiment but in a line up with that many people, no, never going to work. That attitude is great amongst 3-5 surfers :)
@@KalesBroccoli Thanks for taking the time to reply =) ! Happy shredding 🏄
Uh, I'd say Mundaka is a far superior wave on its day.
Spanish localism is different! People beat each other up a lot
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Looks like hell on earth. Surfing with crowds sucks.
Dogs that bark don't bite.
Yeah horrible crowd
Skiping if the guy is a local or not, there are tenths of surfers there... it just can't work 1 wave per surfer.
Let's say, there are 60 surfers in the video. In the ideal case, 1 wave every 10 seconds, 6 waves per minute, so a surfer would catch a wave every 10 minutes, assuming all waves are good to catch.
Now add that not all waves are good to catch, it takes you some time to get into position, the waves you may fail to catch... are we talking about 1 wave every 30 minutes respecting 1 wave per person? Maybe more?
In my opinion the north coast is overcrowded at the moment. Surf got superpopular between the locals and too many foreigners on holidays or living in their vans around. No matter which beach you go and what weather conditions, it's always full. Even when sea is flat.
Now think you are the local doing your 9-17 work, go to surf and find the problem described above. Who wouldn't get mad?
Who wouldn't get mad? Any decent surfer.. Getting mad at someone who's caught the wave, been on it for 50+ meters, for not hopping off and giving someone else a turn haha you're joking right.. how embarrassing
Why exposing other's home surf?
because surfers are mostly kooks now filming, posting, like this kook and then wondering why it's crowded. Sport of kooks now
Why do you even bother paddling out in such a crowd?! I imagine the same applies to Snapper or Pipeline. Surfing is supposed to be fun, and that is not.
Wasn’t when I started paddling out
Unfortunately the good days of surfing quality breaks are long behind us and I can't even be bothered spending the money anymore to go somewhere to get frustrated. I'm 60 and have surfed for 45 years, still on a 5'10" so I can get a good picture of how things have changed. Sometimes you get lucky at some more out of town places but they are few and far between. South Oz surfer.
long term surfers know it has turned into the sport of kooks.
These social media clowns are clueless, they keep on filming and then wonder why it is crowded? Duh
I surfed Spain in 81-83, now it is called Pain.
What the f is that guy doing there with that motorized surfboard? 🤣
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Mundaka is the BEST left..you waste your time there.
Too funny. I moved to France from California a few years back and noticed the same with the localism in Europe. A lot of agro locals and tons of kooks. A lot more crowded where I come from but much more organized than here
Long but burgery...
Motorbike surfer, can´t believe that man - so sad to see that
like ants at a fat camp picnic.
You need some better music!
what a circus
Infront of Laredo beach, this wave its called La fortaleza, ONLY works with big wave days and low tide, the rest of the time the wave dissapears, very near from this one, there is another famous wave: El brusco: ONLY at low tide and in the morning, only pipelines, left and right. In Laredo, a good wave aswell, mainly right, good pipelines sometimes, mainly at low tide, Laredo wave with Oriñon wave its the ONLY waves that works with N, NO winds, the mainly winds here, overall in winter, if the wind is N or NO, then go to Laredo or Oriñon, don't waste your oil, because there is NO place of surfing in many, many kms away, because this two is cover of this bad winds by mountains. The Laredo wave its located near the end of the beach, where you can see easily people surfing in La fortaleza, right infront of. Oriñon wave its a few kms from Laredo, going to Bilbao direction, its a beautiful low tide river wave, but there is another point at the other side of the beach, that works at all tides, but worse in high tide.
Shut your mouth, respect the locals and don't give directions to places. Thank you
@@redbuki the locals dice … pero si esa ola la conoce hasta el cura del pueblo !!! No hagas el ridículo por favor ! Además sale dos veces al año y suele ser una basura . Coge olas de verdes y déjate de amenazar a la gente
sheep
It gets packed because of these kind of videos, thanks for nothing mate!
Pfft I think once the motorised surfboard is out there it’s well and truly over
@@KalesBroccoli yes but you dont help with this video
@@maik-bb1pm do you live in a cave lol
This isn't a secret spot. Terrible local surfers claiming waves someone's been on for 50+ meters, and a jet ski in this line up! haha how embarrassing
@@-Fank- gringo of the day 😉
anyone who posts anything about any spots on social media is automatically a SELLOUT KOOK.
Guiris go home, let us alone whit ours waves.
Stop surfing in spain!
Espacially with your stupid music in the backround
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@@KalesBroccoli I am sorry. Was a bad joke
Guiri stop embarrassing yourself go home.
Spaniards are marquitas no matter what sport they play
Hahaha, really? Keep playing games like a child , “Machito”
@@malex_xander Ok maybe I owe an explanation. I've played basketball in Spain (near Jerez) and the Spaniards constantly foul, and flop to try to get the other team charged with fouls. It's worse than soccer, which is full of flopping effeminate cowards too. I just don't respect you guys.