Snow Surf

This weekend was pretty crazy. You can't see it from this picture, but it was craaaazy cold on Saturday, and it was snowing. Me and my friend, 中村先生 hit up Karatsu, about an hour's drive away, and this sick little spot for a couple of hours. It was my first 'for real' cold water surf, cuz the other ones had been a little unseasonably warm. There was nothing like that going on this time. We checked out a couple of spots (video below is of アトマ, which is short for 'automatic' cuz it's a machine break), before finally stopping here, 北浜 (Kitahama, North Beach).

It was crazy cold, and to be honest, the first ten minutes or so were pretty intense. The first duck dive, it literally hurt your skin to go into the water. Eventually though, adrenaline took over, and after watching 中村先生 get long ride after long ride, it wasn't about being cold anymore; it was about catching some of these waves. For maybe an hour and half, we had clean chest to head high lefts and rights all to ourselves. Probably an hour in, I noticed the snow. I can't even describe what that was like...it didn't seem cold, but there was snow everywhere. Every time I looked at 中村先生, his mouth was open, trying to catch snow. Something you can't really forget. Here's the video of us, after.