September 14th, 2018

Somewhere in Nicaragua

Chris Conner love this spot when it’s starts to show its real teeth.

I shot around mid to low tide. As you can see its getting pretty drained out… which was making it really hollow.

John Campbell, pulling into one of the heavy lefts that were up for grabs today.

Imagine the view on this beach break beast.

You know that feeling of being way too far down the line to even make it, yet close enough to feel the spit as it’s slap you in the face for missing such a beautiful wave.

1, 2, 3 Say CHEEEEEESE!!!!!

Lesther with a whole lot of real estate on this backdoor looking nugget.

This gnarly looking sand dragon pretty much, best sums up todays conditions. A bit wild, until someone wants to try and tame one of these monsters. Kei playing hi Nica version of Dungeons and Dragons.

Hey, look at the one out the back… No the OTHER ONE!

Today’s rights looked eerily like backdoor, tapering over sand as opposed to reef.

Either way, I’m sure Kai’s ok with practicing for Pipe here before the Hawaiian season starts in a couple months.

Kelly Slater actually has a couple secret spots in Latin America I know about where he used to warm up before the contest at Teahupoo in Tahiti.

Maybe this will be Kei’s warm up zone when he makes the WSL big leagues??

Only time will tell.

Luckily, growing up with waves like this, it can easily put you on the surfing world radar when you’re like, under 10; like it did here for Jackson.

Sticker placement is everything, especially if you’re a barrel specialist.

Jackson’s a great kid…. aheemmm, excuse me, I mean, fine young man now and he RIPS equally as much as he’s grown.

Oscar’s backside no hand approach to these barrels are what made Andy irons legendary. It’s the little details.

Even our laid back amigos were grinding it out with some Oscar the grouch, messy basura looking green nightmares.

Chris Conner is always capturing his waves with his trademark GoPro mouth view. Here’s one of my many angles of him today.

And here’s the another. I bet his Gopro “Boca” shots are just as ridiculous!!!

This angle doesn’t really show you how hollow it is, but trust me when I say, it’s plenty hollow.

Oscar, same wave, after coming out of a nice deep barrel, going for the 8, 9 or 10… cause kicking out is like eating half your filet mignon and throwing out the rest. Might as well eat the whole thing if it’s good.

There were some really impressive turns today, considering it was really steep and hollow with not a lot of room for turns out there.

Kevin loves to put himself in critical places on the waves.

You might be thinking, well this doesn’t look too critical…

but if you surf here enough, or surf anywhere enough where a wave does this and you try doing what Kev’s doing here…. you know very well, it’s not as easy as it looks.

and he made it, with ease!

Kevin is always watching, which probably explains why he’s so good! Unknown ripper showing Mr. Cortez what’s in his bag of tricks today.

This was the last sequence I got of the day.

It’s ridiculously long and incredibly impressive with how Jackson read, drove through and executed this not so perfect barrel.

I’d say only a handful of any given surfers on this wave would made it. Jackson, always blowing minds anytime he surfs, putting the perfect exclamation point on a perfectly surfed wave today. Stay tuned for the whole sequence later on my IG@nicasurfshots

Low tide, drained out, offshore, aqua-blue-green thick heavy barrels….. its one way to kick off a great weekend! RIGHT??

So if don’t already know, we have some amazing swell lined up for a while, so definitely check back as often as you can, OR if you just can’t stand all this beautiful surf porn, book a trip already. Either way, we’ve got you covered!!! See ya mañana, SBS is out, for now!  Saludos ~** if you were out today and woud like to see all the sequences in their entirety go to this link here :https://www.nicaraguasurfshots.com/september_14_2018_colorados_am_main