Friday, April 1, 2011 10:31am PDT

Rip Curl team finds brown barreling tidal bore in Indo

By: Janos Palko


Rip Curl's TIP2TIP series follows a season-long boat trip through the Indonesian archipelago with Rip Curl's team of riders rotating on and off the ship. In this episode/trailer an expedition into the deep inland jungles of Sumatra, led by Tom Curren and co., finds the most unbelievable tidal bore waves to date. The clip is definitely a tease, as it only reveals glimpses of how good the waves were, but jeeezus those brown tubes look like they were fake. Cant wait to see the rest of this..

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