If it’s a big, heavy slab, Kipp Caddy wants a piece of it. Photo: YouTube//Screenshot
Shark Island is a not a place for a surfer looking for a relaxing session. It’s not a place to lazily ride a longboard over knee-high runners, laughing as you paddle back out with dry hair. Shark Island is a place for hellmen. A place to get the heart beating quicker. A place to tempt fate. And there is no one who knows that better than Kipp Caddy.
The short film you see here from Kipp is the first of a new series called “Slab Sessions.”
“Shark Island finally woke from her slumber,” Caddy wrote. “A small tidal window on Monday morning allowed for an hour-long session at Sydney’s most iconic slab. Once the tide was too low we rushed to Cape Solander where the 15-second period swell was causing carnage with nearly every single wave colliding with the backwash, literal waves bouncing of the cliff and breaking back out to sea.”
Caddy is no stranger to waves of a certain size and thickness. When he was just 14 years old, he surfed Shipstern Bluff for the first time. Cutting your teeth on a wave like that lends itself to creating a very particular type of surfer, and Caddy is definitely that type.
