Surfing Life

THE ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE ULUWATU SINGLE FIN CLASSIC

It was like a dream. As the sun set on a cosmic day of surfing, the vastly underrated NSW Far North Coast surfing purist, Chippa Wilson, struck a high-line soul arch, on a golden backlit Uluwatu grower, that might have elicited the loudest roar of the contest. It mightn’t have scored a single point, but the image of Chippa was seared into the consciousness of the hundreds packed along the cliff top at Ulus.

Like much of the surfing witnessed

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