If you want tubes at Zicatela, you have to take the wipeouts, too. Photo: Nathan Florence//Screenshot
After a week in Puerto Escondido, Nathan Florence had only made one barrel. Then, on the last day of the trip, the conditions finally aligned — offshore winds grooming massive, peaky waves at Playa Zicatela.
Florence got tubed on lefts and rights. He called one particular right with an explosion of spit, the “wave of the trip.”
But Florence’s latest vlog also shows how you pay for such elusive tubes over the course of a five-hour session. Towering walls of whitewash repeatedly pounded him while he was stuck on the inside.
“I can’t even say how many waves I took on the head,” said Florence. “Got so rag-dolled. I feel brain-dead.”
Florence had a good balance of tubes to wipeouts. For the average Joe who wants to surf the sucking pits of Zicatela, it’s going to be a lot more of the latter.
