EMILIO GALINDO BARQUÍN: STORM HUNTING IN SOUTHERN SPAIN!
EMILIO GALINDO BARQUÍN: STORM HUNTING IN SOUTHERN SPAIN!
EMILIO GALINDO BARQUÍN: STORM HUNTING IN SOUTHERN SPAIN!
When the PWA tour goes quiet, senior wave judge, Emilio Galindo Barquín goes hunting. Winter is his season…not for rest, but for wind, waves and scoring the kind of sessions you only get by chasing storms. From the south of Spain, Emilio just sent us a striking gallery captured during a wild stretch of weather that’s finally switched the coast on. It hasn’t come easy: long drives, endless forecast checks and plenty of waiting. But when the elements briefly line up it looks like the reward was worth the chase!
Photos: Flo @windch4aser…Click any photo to enlarge and scroll.
Emilio: “This year’s winter has been a slow-building one at South Spain, a few sessions here and there but nothing too crazy. Fortunately, it looks like this is changing now… We are being constantly battled with big storms since a couple of weeks, one after the other.
This is bringing a lot of rain, which is uncommon in this part of Spain, and loads of waves. Most of the time it is just a light breeze of wind, and rarely a little bit more, but today it is gusting +50 knots!
This last couple of days I could score some nice waves, but still couldn’t get a classic clean “easy” session. I’m riding alone most of the time, as the waves are messy, no channel, no wind.
Usually the window to attack is very slim, as the wind is blowing onshore most of the day, and you have to be very patient and knowledgeable about when it is going to turn side off.
But in the offseason from my work on PWA I’m fortunately on holidays, so I’m devoted to find the perfect spot everyday, with the best waves and side offshore winds. And lucky me, Flo (@windch4aser) is also here on the same schedule and mindset to go on the hunt, so we are shooting some nice pics from time to time.
Everything else… you all know the drill, a lot of time behind the computer checking every single forecast model, webcams and weather stations, plus a lot of driving and waiting till the elements align. As always, a few fails here and there but most of the time we ended up scoring big time!”
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