June 1st, 2018
Somewhere in Nicaragua
Hola everyone and happy TGIF surf report. Checking in a little late today, but for good reason…. I was out playing in some fun surf up north with some friends visiting from Japan today. It was good, so you definitely should keep scrolling on down to see how it went.
Like they say…. the early bird gets the worm. Well in this case, the early surfer gets the nuggets.
And so we’re off!! All the while still many were still sleeping in.
Rolling up to a spot and seeing the look on the faces of your friends faces who have never ever surfed this place, just brings back the same tingling feeling I once had at all of these spots many years ago. Who said surf exploration is dead? Not for these 4 amigos!
Tatsuro, laying down some mighty fine lines in the early am this morning.
Smiles for days too after surfing this new wave for the very first time.
Masayuki, was hyped to surf here too. I’ve love to go back to Japan to see where these guys surf regularly, because I can tell they must have their home break dialed; they came here and surfed this place like they’ve surfed it their whole life.
The key is to be in the barrel, but I thought this pic was super funny. If you’re gonna go…. GO BIG!! I give this one a 9 for the cartwheel attempt down the wave face just outside the barrel.
Taka decided to take advantage of NSR’s board rental quiver, over bringing his own personal board down this time around. He said he felt a little off being that it was a different board, but I’d say by the looks of it, he looks like he’s doing just fine… and he has an extra couple hundred bucks left in his pocket instead the airline he flew down on. WIN / WIN!
3 of the 4 guys were goofy, like this nice turn by Masayuki, so this spot was like a dream wave for them.
$2000 + dollars to fly from Japan. 20+ hours to get here. Watching your buddy take off under the lip while you paddle back out…. Pricele$$!
Tatsuro speaks mostly Japanese…
but somehow we were still talking about the surf, even over our language barrier.
International face for ‘Stoked”!!!
Happy turns
for happy people!
There definitely were some well overhead sets coming through.
and like I tell all my surfing amigos, watch that inside section for the rocks. They eat shins, toes and noses of surfboards.
Luckily Masayuki surfs well enough to heed enough caution to my warnings.
Sho was sitting the deepest all day.
so he got some pretty sick turns in throughout the day.
Taking one that far in like he did on this wave certainly credited him a little claim.
and a big stoked grin on the paddle back out.
Big turns like this…
makes for really big smiles like this.
Big backhand off the bottom turns like these always feel so good when nicely choreographed.
Especially when it sets you up for a couple of nice backside top turns like this.
RECENT REPORTS
Hey everyone! Welcome to Thursday’s surf report from Colorados. It was a little smaller than yesterday, but there were still waves. The wind was near ideal too! Kevin took “behind the peak” to a new level here.
Hey amigos! Welcome to Wednesday’s surf report from Colorados. The waves were smaller today, but the sets still had a bit of size. The conditions were very clean. The smoothest and most well groomed waves that I saw this week.
Hey everyone! Welcome to Tuesday afternoon’s surf report from Colorados. It was likely the last day of large-ish surf for a while. It took patience and good positioning, but there were some great barrels made today.
FROM THE ARCHIVES
Bienvenidos a otro Reporte de Surf desde playa Santana! Today, I decided to do the report in Spanish, after all, we are in Nicaragua and you should know a few more words than just “cervezas” and “chicas”. I hope you don’t mind, and if you do, just use Google Translate.
What’s happening friends?! Welcome to the midweek surf report at NSR with Parker. We enjoyed another fun morning in our backyard so check out the shots!
The left is working good. The surfers have all this line to score some points.