WILD PADDLE SESSION IN CHILE IVANS RIDE OF A LIFETIME SLAB TOUR 2025 STOP 1 PART 2

We're not leaving We're not leaving ever true story pipe is gonna be is 10 15 plus good as it gets 20 days straight We're going stay here for another five days Just waxed up this absolute baddie Got the GoPro mount on Chained up tomorrow. We're trying to get deeper, but some reverse Looking back at the lip and everything geared up a 6.4. Tank. I've been riding this magic 6.2 It's got some injuries Given the numbers my signature FCS big wave fin Good thing about this fin is it's reliable in a huge range of conditions. I use this in my guns at jaws I use this at Mulligmore I use it in all my pipe boards this season and now using it here at the slabs as well as last year and Always rocking that helix leash But yeah, these are just a silly strong reliable fin tons of drive off the bottom Get you where you need to go in a barrel But this 6.2 was glass super light by Paizo and it just made it feel crazy Responsive and That glued to your feet type of feeling the only problem is The lighter you glass them the faster. They kind of come apart like the pressure dings are immediately Like do you put your thumb into it? So they don't last very long, but they're such good boards on the other hand You have something like this the tank a little bit heavier glass thicker board more volume way More paddle power in this thing and Six four usually pretty long for the slabs, but I have it ready just in case tomorrow. It's gonna be big big and There's a range of waves here. So ideally We will Be able to surf a few different waves And I'll just have the paddle power to do what I need to do Ivan He's just been on this kick of riding his 5 11 I'm Noah model. This is What is this a? 511 radius with a double grip pad and it's a squash tail. So This guy's over here riding the same board. He would ride a rocky point Because that's how mr. Cool does it? at a range of different slabs here So, I don't know what to say about that Not my style, but this guy's got the style to do it. So I told him to use a step-up so you can Get into waves earlier. He refused that's on him We'll see you guys in the morning That's the spot you're talking about. Yes. Oh Not it That thing's an intended end. Yeah, got a crazy innovative approach here You might think he's in a hooded suit Didn't have a hood. So he got his rash guard on underneath Protecting the head from sunburn all day cap. Yeah more sunburn and added a little bit of warmth probably This guy's prepared last time. He served six hours and his head got sunburned now He's taken pre-emptive measures and Will no longer be sunburned on the head Probably end up at a thing that crazy left. So We will be in the water. We'll see you on GoPro cams or to be in the air with the bird It's not a crazy paddle out broke my board Grabbing a secondary board GoPro is lucky to be alive because it went to the rocks with the Boys grabbed it Thank goodness Ivan has had a really good one. So Pretty epic Zord talked to him. He said he nailed the clip Doesn't get better than that He's really slow and Ivan has had some fun ones I hadn't gotten a crazy one yet this trip so I'm really stoked that he was able to get The one he was looking for probably at this point one of the best ones of the trip I've been having a little bit of shocker and Had a few crumbly ones But looking to change that now And lock into a bomb We're stoked for Ivan. He can be a little hesitant and He's pushed himself and got a bomb That feeling you cannot beat when you're surfing flabs and they're out of your comfort zone So Ivan had a late drop on The board I was making fun of him about I'm over here on my six four. He's on his five ten radius with his air grips on it and he gets to probably maybe maybe was true have to compare later, but It's a good day. We're on four hours into the session Whoa Wind might be coming on soon, but we'll try and get another there's been a few actually just now but Not in position for him Just out of sync long session no water food Six hour session. We just got in we're looking at cups Ivan Wave of the day. Let's see. What is it? That thing was so nuts Oh my gosh, it's huge looking Oh My gosh right there is insane color of it is pretty crazy. Yeah Your drop was hectic What about my first one Ivan with the wave of the day possibly pretty much the trip It was crazy slow six hour session like a wave every hour. It felt like out there So it's like extra hard to position because you just sit sit sit and kind of lose where you were in the lineup So we I made some lineups with the surrounding landscape, but it was still we were on a changing tide and In the end we both got some great waves Ivan was a crazy one this wave the bodyboarders have told us haven't been paddled by stand-up guys, so I'm guessing Ivan probably holds the best stand-up paddle wave here right now It's only been us this trip. So epic session shoutouts to all the local boys just Sharing the water with us sharing the wave with us And insane vibes in the channel like screaming and hooting and claiming every time a wave was caught and ridden Great hospitality here in South America. We're having a great trip and Let's see, I broke my 6-4 so now Lost two boards this trip the 6-4. I was surprised it broke it actually did not feel as good as my 6-2 like The the 6-2 just feels way better. Ivan was on his 5-11 squash tail on that wave. So pretty crazy Just the two sessions we had the thing it's worth the whole adventure here so shoutout to Zord on the drone Six hours of droning swapping batteries through a hotel room window Pretty crazy Guy was doing it and I crashed into the window so The shoutout to drone who also survived and also shout out to GoPro Because my board broke the nose went into the rocks and I thought it was lost and then one of the local guys Found his way in there and got the nose of the board and the GoPro was still on it still recording And he was filming stuff. It was like hilarious And the GoPro is all good, so the gear and the humans are as of now in one piece and it feels Yeah, the boards are in two pieces, but uh, it feels like a win because that way it was super heavy It's really shallow like you can tell in the clip like when water's drawing up like that and there's steps in the barrel and like That only happens when it's insanely shallow Maybe barely a foot deep on that end bowl shallow so if you fall just as you're going into that bowl, you'd be in a really bad situation, but Again, what a cool wave Kind of a chip in it's not a roll in by any means but there's like kind of a way to drop in from behind and just Everything came together for Ivan's wave. He's just late takeoff and super deep that's what they're saying the wave is so hard to be deep at and he was next to the foam ball, I think so Epic times. Thanks Lombardi and the boys for a great day