A typical wave only goes two directions: right or left.
But Blair Conklin, the Laguna Beach skimboarder and stylish soft-top surfer, has found a glitch in the surfing matrix – one wave, going both directions.
Have a look below:
The clip comes from Sununga, Brazil, a popular skimboarding spot due to its wedge-y, rebounding-off-the-rocks, shorebreak setup. But for this wave, Blair swapped his skimboard for his soft-top.
He catches the wave going left, towards the rocks, but when the backwash hit, he hits the lip and reverses direction and goes right. Pretty nuts.
Blair’s been a part of a few novelty wave expeditions before, specifically with the king of the genre, Ben Gravy. Like when the two recently went to Alaska to surf waves formed from calving glaciers.
But this one hits a bit different. (They scored on the Alaskan glacier trip, by adventure standards, but the waves themselves weren’t too crazy.)
Also, while in Brazil, Blair sampled the goods at the buzzy new Boa Vista wavepool outside São Paulo. There, he threw down some effortlessly stylish aerials, which is par for the course for Blair.
Captioning that clip, Blair wrote:
“Went to Brazil for some wedges, and left having surfed the best wavepool in the world.”
Seems like novelty waves (in the ocean or the pool) are having a bit of a moment, no? There can only be so many iterations out there, though. So…what’s next?
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