Jacob Szekely said he might have gotten the wave of his life during a strike mission to Mexico. Photo: Screenshot//Jacob Szekely
Jacob “Zeke” Szekely didn’t hold back on the superlatives after a strike mission to a Mexican point break. While Nathan Florence was getting spit out of tubes in Puerto Escondido, Szekely found epic conditions at an uncrowded right-hander down the coast. He called it the best waves he had ever seen in his life, and that he “quite possibly got the wave of my life.”
“It’s literally as good as waves get,” Szekely said. “Eight to 10-foot perfect right barrels with just the homies.”
The barrels got wide and thick when they hit the shallow inside sand bar — many running too fast. But the right wave and the right surfer could turn them into magic.
Joining Szekely were Ian Crane, Michael Dunphy, Cannon Carr, and John West aka “That Surf Guy.”
While there was the opportunity for the wave of a lifetime in the lineup, the shallow sand bars certainly looked like no joke. Szekely said one surfer had to get rushed to the hospital for stitches in his arm, and Szekely himself snapped his board at the end of the session.
“It was heavy though,” he said. “I got smoked.”
