Felix Ettelson, double drag for the bowl

Bondi Bowlo

The conditions aligned for Australia’s most hectic beach. Bowls in the south turned on with the right tidal and rip mix. It’s head high+, busy and clean at sunrise. It seems we’ve got a new south swell feeding directly into the bay. The new bank set up seems fickle on the tide, too high and […]

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Slab! Bondi 7am

Superb

What a cracker day outside, as we creep up to 27 bangin’ degrees. There are still waves, sometimes head high and throwing hollow on some new sand at the south—lots of seaweed and bluebottles. With weird current movements, your cruisy paddle out in the corner has turned into a churning washing machine of rip currents—hence […]

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Shredlord Felix Ettelson, ripping the pockets out

Refrigerated

Oh boy, it’s cold! Well, it was this morning at sunrise, especially for Spring time. The puffer jacket got a run. The winds have been howling, big time. Yesterday, gusts struck 40 knots. All that wind kicked up a thumper of a swell, which today is a shade smaller but still chunky. I saw sets […]

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Felix Ettelson - sparks

High Performance

The surf was on so all of Bondi’s finest shredders were up for the early. It was quite a display of high-performance surfing. I was busy today, reos on the rights, airs on the shorey, carves on the lefts. It was a very active lineup with consistent waves around head-high. At dawn I began in […]

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