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Adam Robertson gave us some home video footage and we threw it together for your enjoyment. Seeing the long rippable point waves Robbo grew up surfing shows where he got his smooth style and power. This first clip focuses on just the rights, up next we’ll be posting some incredible lefts.
A look at two turns that happened thousands of miles away from each other. Ryan Hipwood throws buckets on a tropical wall in Queensland while Adam Robertson slices through a cool South Australian wedge.
6am Victoria Australia with Adam Robertson. Icy Cold, Oily Smooth, Vivid Color, Corduroy Lines, Low Tide, Utterly Surreal . . .
The Southern Ocean, also known as the Great Southern Ocean, the Antarctic Ocean and the South Polar Ocean, comprises the southernmost waters of the World Ocean. It is regarded as the fourth-largest of the five principal oceanic divisions. This ocean zone is where cold, northward flowing waters from the Antarctic mix with warmer sub-Antarctic waters.
Sailors know this area as the “roaring fourties”, “furious fifties” and “shrieking sixties” due to high winds and large waves that form as winds blow around the entire globe unimpeded by any land-mass. Sea-temperatures vary from about −2 to 10 C (28 to 50 F). Cyclonic storms travel eastward around the continent and frequently become intense because of the temperature-contrast between ice and open ocean . The ocean-area from about latitude 40 south to the Antarctic Circle has the strongest average winds found anywhere on Earth.
This combination creates powerful storms that frequently send perfectly groomed long period swell to the many beaches of South Australia and Victoria. Winter months bring frosty mornings with offshore winds and corduroy lines stacked to the horizon as far as the eye can see.
One person that knows these conditions as well as anyone is Adam Robertson. After placing 2nd to Joel Parkinson in the 2009 WCT Bells Beach Classic, Robbo showed that growing up in this region of the world can prepare you for any type of conditions and when its on, its on. His style is a perfect example of the type of waves he grew up surfing, clean, powerful and explosive. While we spent some time filming in this cold raw and unpredictable region, we were pleasentley surprised with classic winter time conditions.
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