BALI LONGBOARD SUP REVOLUTION

Honestly, I had never tried LongSUP before, but Bali was an amazing trip to experience this new discipline of the sport. Also, the waves were incredible and the atmosphere between the girls was even more so. Skyler Rayner and Brea Bright were two discoveries for me, as I already knew Wesly Fry and Kai Bates well from various JPA and ISA world tours together.

The atmosphere of the event was amazing. There were groups of all ages. Brea was the youngest against an Australian man of about 76 years. They all had something in common: the love of SUP surfing and the Bintang.

After the event, we watched the report and got carried away by our boss Scott Mckercher. Looking at the part, and although we barely had 5/6 days for the trip, we decided to go to the island of Rote. A flight with a local airline (which is always an adventure), a taxi of several hours, a night in a hotel in God knows where, 8 hours by boat and two hours by taxi later, we arrived at the anxious destination! I thought we were never going to get there. We arrived almost at night, and there was an onshore wind and small waves, I looked at Scott and saw a worried expression on his face. We went to bed to wait for what the next morning had in store for us.

I had been on that island in 2009 with Sonni Hönscheid and Mario Entero on a surf trip with Roxy, probably the first surf trip of my life, and it was unforgettable. I have many memories of good waves in that place, and I expected nothing less from this trip.

The next morning, we rented a scooter and went with the first light of day to one of the spots. We discovered some really good waves and went into the water! 3 hours of surfing later we were calmer, we had the feeling that the long trip to the island had already been worth it.

Our life on the island was sunrise in the water, eating, napping and going to the water again. Between session and session we were looking at possible spots and visiting the island. Motorcycle rides became essential. We let ourselves be advised by the locals. The truth is that Indo Lines were incredible, they took us to the best spots and we surfed practically alone. We also stayed in their accommodation and they made us breakfast, lunch and dinner, we didn’t have to worry about food and everything was delicious.

I also have to say that we went very early in the good season of T-Land and we surfed it, but it was not the T-land that we usually see in the photos and reports. Also being SUPers, we were very careful and respectful of surfers (always the mythical story between the priorities of surfing over other sports like ours and the issue of localism).

A few intense days of SUPsurfing with friends, who are family, in a magical place like Bintang that I knew very little about...they will soon have me back there.

THANKS SCOTT!!!