One martial arts teacher said to me: “Practice doesn’t make perfect. Practice makes permanent.”
It takes a lot of practice to become adept at successfully exiting the tube. The more times you do it, the more likely you are to permanently develop the habit of crashing through chandeliers or jumping over bubble balls.
Beach breaks in France are not permanent. As anyone who sunbathes naked will tell you, the beaches there are prone to 10-foot tides in the winter. Sandbars look magical one hour and then disappear the next.
But when everything finally aligned, the neoprene-clad French knights took no prisoners, trying to evade the guillotine one after another. While the U.S. West Coast has been stormy and bumpy of late, France had its best day of the year earlier this month, as a solid double overhead cylinder was lifted aloft by plenty of offshore wind.
The video above, set dramatically to Black Sabbath’s ‘War Pigs’, shows a number of French athletes doing reps in the biggest and most consistent swell to hit Les Landes this year. It shows. This was a veritable pit fest that produced French artillerymen such as Joan Doure, Benjamin Sankis, Marc Lacomare, Aritz Arambre, and Charlie Quivront.
However, there is no indication of the amount of chiropractic treatment needed after being thrown by a powerful sandbar. You have to pay to play here.
