DECEMBER NEWSLETTER

Author

Delia Porras
December 11, 2022

LAST WINTER TRIPS OF THE SEASON

We have just two winter and early spring trips left with space this winter 2022 / 2023.

The trips are a great way of:

Meeting new people, discovering a new culture, developing your surf skills, surfing in mild water enjoying some winter sunshine!

Join us on our > February Trip  

Join us on our > March Trip

Come and trade the northern winter for a Spanish Surf Adventure - vamos!

CONTACT - [email protected]

telephone +34 680760418 (Spain)

Pumping Late Autumn Swells 

Clean lefts and rights of late Autumn - Costa de la luz 2022 - Photos Josh

The waves have been non stop this autumn and early winter.

There's been swells for longboarding, shortboarding, bodyboarding, for beginners to hell raising kamikazes and everything in-between!

Bodyboarding shorebreaks, long boarding cruisy peelers and entry level spillers. It's been a late autumn for all wave craft and all levels to enjoy.

The weather has been mild with sunshine most days average 20 degree high. The rains have also arrived to a parched landscape much in need of a watering. The region hadn't seen rain since April and was officially in drought.

Rainbow country - La Janda Early December 2022 - Photos Josh

Spanish Bodyboarding Competition Fires!

Air Roll Campeonata del Faro - La Janda 2022

This Spanish National Bodyboard open competition finally got the green light after being on hold for a year!

Spectacular to watch - the steeply shelving beach meant spectators where metres away from the action as the waves broke into inches of water.

Booming shore break - Campeonata del Faro 2022 - Photos Josh Christopherson

Riders came from all over the Spain, the Canary Islands, Portugal, with some token riders from South Africa and the UK. It was a great atmosphere with a crowd of several hundred lining the beach!

Solstice Sunsets

The sunsets at this time of year are spectacular.

Sunset Surfs in La Janda - Photo Delia Porras

Surf Tip of the Month

A common improver mistake in unbroken waves is to take the eyes off the wave when paddling. This results in over or under paddling and timing errors.

It results in many nose dives and missed waves - getting caught blind sided.

Cue phrase to remember. Eyes on the back of the head (watch the wave as you paddle).

Kelly Slater - eyes on the back of his head - Photo: ASP/Rowland

Environment

The La Janda area of Spain is of great importance for migratory birds as it sits so close to Africa, located between two seas (the Med and Atlantic). Between February and May millions of birds cross the Strait of Gibraltar.

Hermit Ibis Photo by David J. Stang wikicommons

There are endangered species such as the Hermit Ibis (above) that if you are lucky you'll see on route to the surf.

Hasta La Proxima!

Delia and Josh🤙🏼 🌊