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RIDER JASON VAN DER SPUY

PHOTO CRAIG KOLESKY

LOCATION ROOI-ELS, CAPE

: This was one of those rare summer days that provided a nuking northwesterly storm. Rooi-Els is not a very known spot, but it’s one of the best and gnarliest spots in that wind direction. It was one of those 35-knot days and it was only Aaron, Lewis, Ruben and myself there with Craig behind the camera. We were all shooting in the ocean and when the high tide came in, I saw the opportunity

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