For anyone who started surfing at a young age, you’ve likely at least toyed with the idea that being a professional surfer would be a fun gig. Maybe a poor NSSA result snapped you back to reality or perhaps a competing passion won out. Either way, as we know too well, there are no crowds of spectators when free surfing. Not that everything should be done for others to see but sometimes when a great moment happens it’s an added bonus when a friend, or better, someone you’ve never met, gives you a verbal pat on the back.
Well, during a recent trip to Senegal, Finisterre ambassador Noah Lane and photographer Jack Johns came upon a mysto spot that was absolutely firing. And instead of trading back-to-back tubes in silence, they were greeted by a crowd of locals that began cheering them on as if in the heat of their lives. Apparently it was the first time the locals had seen stand-up surfing.
