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Welcome to the beast of backwash
Tom Curren, Kanoa Igarashi and Yadin Nicol take on Sandspit, California’s most notorious breakwall.
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Sandspit - Welcome to the beast of backwash
Watch how Tom Curren, Kanoa Igarashi and Yadin Nicol take on California's trickiest beachbreak.
Once kept semi under wraps by its local surfers, Sandspit today is a full-on bonanza of pros, bros and surf paparazzi when the swell and wind charts coalesce. But no matter how heavy the crush becomes these days, you can always count on veterans Tom Curren and Yadin Nicol to rise to the top, negotiate the watery moguls, and nail a few barreling beauties.
Yadin Nicol’s big splash
© Scotty Hammonds
At the end of Januay, when just the right swell popped up, filmer Scotty Hammonds elbowed his way to prime position on the beach and caught Curren, Nicol and young gun Kanoa Igarashi in the act. The day's very best barrels – and wipeouts – are captured in the edit above.
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