That’s not a lot of room for error. Photo: Ben Gravy // YouTube
Would you risk your life to avoid a crowd? Because sometimes, it feels like the only way to not have to elbow your way through an angry pack of fellow wave riders is to risk an early demise. That risk can come in many forms: jagged rocks, treacherous beach access, deadly fauna. For Ben Gravy, it was the prospect of getting brained against either a pier pylon or a cement wall.
The moment came in Gravy’s latest video offering. In it, the YouTuber returned to his novelty wave roots by finding the least surfable spot imaginable and somehow making it work. The sliver of wave was somewhere on the West Coast, in what he dubbed “the last secret spot in California.”
In the end, he made lemonade of lemons in the way only Ben Gravy can. “We set out with one mission this morning: find the last secret spot in California,” he described in the session debrief. “Oh boy did we find it – not a soul in sight. Empty lineup, and there’s many reasons why: nobody wants to go out there.”
The reason, of course, was that the spot can, and will, kill you. “I almost nose-dove on a couple bombs, then I actually ended up nosediving into pier pilings,” he continued. “Then I looked in and I saw my beautiful wife filming, and then I looked up the beach and saw Uncle Harry and I thought ‘If I have to make Jordan and Uncle Harry go to the hospital, because I’m about to break my collarbone on the pier, that’s not very fair.’ So then I started wimping out on every set wave, and that’s when I decided the session was over.”
It was worth a shot. I guess.
