The Monsters: Kohl, Greg, Gabriel, Will, Coco, Oscar, Alvaro…

One for the History Books

On August 16th 2012, Puerto Escondido saw a Mutant (15-20 foot) swell and a crew of crazy committed big wave riders. Greg Long, Kohl Christensen, Gabriel Villaran, Coco nogales, Oscar Moncada, Alvaro Malpartida, Will Dillon, Spencer Pirdy, Jensen Hasset and many more grab the biggest buts the could find and surfed one of the most amazing swell we have ever seen in Puerto Escondido. this one for sure will go straight to the top 5 session in Puerto Escondido’s Surf History Books.

Monster Ride: Kohl Christensen took off on maybe one of the biggest, wildest, craziest waves ever ridden in Puerto. It was a solid 15-18 foot bomb that had crazy bumps due to the strong south east winds. Had he made the whole ride, it would have been a strong contender to take the wave of the summer event. Unfortunately, after negotiating 2 major bumps, Kohl got lunched into the air by a weird third wind chop. He was unable to penetrate and almost did a scorpion on the face of the wave and then got pounded by a violent massive Puerto lip. On top of that, he got smashed by the next 3 monster waves that were coming behind.

Greg Long: One of the biggest lefts came straight to Greg Longs’ position and as we all know he was not gonna pull back. He wishes he was a lil bit deeper but, its actually very had to have the perfect position when we talk about an 18 foot wave.

Biggest Barrel: Oscar Moncada waited all day for the conditions to improve but, when the southeast winds kicked in, he realized is was time to grab the rope and get towed into the biggest bombs of the day. Most of the biggest waves were unridden until that point. He actually got towed into 3 waves where he found a 10 foot barrel on the first one, a massive drop to bottom turn on the second and the Biggest barrel ridden on the third attempt. That was good enough to call it a day.

Cleanest Tube: Gabriel Villaran was the one who looked unstoppable. He was always lucky to be in the spot for most of the sent and took a lot of good rides but, the best one came to him late on the day giving him a pretty good entry for the wave of the summer event.

Check out the images to realize how crazy that session was!

Edwin Morales

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