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This little change in wind direction had an almost immediate impact on the waves breaking here and gave them the extra notch of punch and form to make things interesting. Plus: the sun came out.
But at the same time a seemingly endless stream of surfers arrived. Be it an excellent knowledge of the forecast and the mechanics of the spot or be it just the end of working hours, the result was a lineup that became pretty busy very soon. This alone is a problem for this kind of semi-pointbreak waves where the take-off zone remains more or less at the same small spot.
A classic result of this overly crowded break was somebody taking off very deep and another one at a more makeable position. The one who took off deep – maybe even too deep – had to slow down because of the guy on the shoulder. The guy on the shoulder was at least having an eye on the guy with priority and once he realized that the other one could make the wave, dropped out of the wave himself.
But that split second needed by the guy on the shoulder to realize that the surfer at the peak would make slowed the surfer at the peak down long enough to lose an otherwise make-able wave. In the end none of the two made the wave.
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