Kandui Surf Resort Mentawai Islands
Nov. 4th surf report.
The off season seems to have come a little early and waves have been small so far with this latest group, but we have been having fun. We’ve been surfing Burgerworld a lot. Beng Beng was also fun one day, Bankvaults and Nipusi were alright a couple of days, and there is always 4 Bobs and the waves around the resort. We didn’t surf one day because the weather was pretty ugly, but other than that we have been getting waves. And it’s just been a fun trip with Taylor Steele dropping by with his posse to shoot a Corona commercial and then they dressed up as pirates on Halloween night and pillaged our bar! Good times. We have also had a lot of groms on the island and that is always cool. Nothing stoked me more than seeing groms froth! We were all there at one time, eh? Dylan and Brandon are from Cali and they were ripping. We also had Jarad from Bali who Rizal has taken under his wing. He recently won a contest in Bali and he’s ripping. He has obviously been watching Rizal and taking notes! I’ve attached photos of the three ripping groms.
Nov. 4th surf report, part II
Nothing stokes me more than seeing groms froth except for seeing extra little groms froth! Rizal brought his oldest son, eight year old Varun, to the island. The kid is pumped to surf all the time and especially can’t wait to get out to 4 Bobs when the tide is high enough. He even surfed, and made waves, at tiny Rifles one day when the tide was high enough to be safe for him. He got a good one at Burgerworld as well, but caught a set on the head immediately afterwards (anyone that surfs Burgerworld knows what that’s about all too well), and that left little Varum longing for 4 Bobs! Look for this grom to be ruling Bali as soon as Rizal decides to pass the torch. Rizal is one of my favorite people that come to Kandui and it is super cool to see him pushing Varum into waves and getting more happiness from seeing his son get waves than himself. But when Rizal decides to get a wave, look out because he is still ripping!!! Attached are a couple pictures of Rizal and a few of Varum. How is the sequence of the little guy laying down a rail grab cutty! The kid’s already better than most of us!
Nov 4th surf report, part III
Another cool thing we have been doing on this trip is giving away water filters in the local villages. John Rose was here during the Padang earthquake a few years ago and he witnessed all the devastation. That was the spark that ignited his passion to help people in third world countrys like Indonesia. With help from Bob Hurley and others, he has been traveling the world giving away water filters that strain dangerous, and potentially fatal, germs from the impure water that people use in places such as the Mentawais. I’m sure you will be hearing more about this as we plan on Kandui being the hub for distribution in this area. It has been fun going to the villages and having our local crew demonstrate the filters to the inevetable crowd that gathers whenever a bunch of lilly white folks wander into town. The hordes of kids are always the highlight in those villages, smiling, laughing, cheering. It was a very satisfying experience and we want to keep that ball rolling. The program is called “Waves for Water” and I’m sure you can check out the Hurley website for pictures of our adventures and for more information. Besides being a humanatarian, John Rose was a professional surfer and he still rips! Attached are some pictures of him and some of the other Hurley crew. There is also a great picture of John getting some air on his shoulder high wave at Nipusi as Varun Tanjung is sizing up his double overhead bomb! It was our ever changing desktop picture for a while. Nice!
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