How to Keep a Perfect Wave’s Location Secret
Mick Fanning’s wave, if you can call it that, has unleashed an ethics class on the surf world. It was a lot easier to keep the location of a perfect wave secret just a few years ago as Benny Bourgeois tells us in the SURFER article.
Have you even had the chance to see Mick’s Wave? We wanted to hear what it’s like concealing that type of secret.
I did see it. And I saw all the chitter chatter on all the different websites, and I was just thinking about how much it’s changed since eight or nine years ago when I first surfed that wave [Ben would go on to grace the cover of Surfing after that trip in 2008]. Back then, you could keep it off social media, throw up some photos in the mag. It was so delayed that the process was different.
But was it hard to keep a secret when people, especially your friends, asked you where it was after that mag came out?
A lot of people would guess. And it definitely wouldn’t be the spot, but I’d kind of laugh it off and be like, ‘Yeah, that’s it’ [Laughs]. I wouldn’t necessarily lie to them, but I’d do my best to change the subject pretty quick. It’s kind of awkward. People still hit me up about it today and I still avoid giving a straight answer. Of course, quite a few people know about it these days, but when they find out where it is, when they figure out how much of a mission it is to get there, and when they find out how rarely it breaks, they never actually go. Mick’s Wave is probably going to be the same thing.
Click over to SURFER MAG and let Benny B teach you how to keep a wave secret.
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