The Skeleton Bay Shootout | Surf Contest At The Best Wave In The World
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The Skeleton Bay Shootout presented by Monster Energy took place over three days in late June in non-stop three-to-six foot barrels in Namibia. The speciality event looks to recognise the standout surfers of the swell at the best wave in the world and the rules are simple - show up and pull in.
“The Skeleton Bay Shootout is a peer-judged event and it’s pretty underground. No-ones really knows when it will happen, it’ll just pop-up depending on the swell and whoever is there is there,” says Eli Beukes, who put in a solid showing on his first trip to the iconic left-hander on the edge of the Namib Desert. “It’s pretty cool because it’s mostly going by word of mouth and whoever has been the surfer of the swell or gets the best barrel will get a bit of a cash prize at the end.”
This was essentially a dry-run for the concept. Now Now Media is planning a series of Shootouts based on the same idea at some of the most incredible waves around the world in 2024 and looking to bump up the prize money significantly. The prizes are a nice way to recognise who was charging but it’s not about the money. There’s always so much stoke when waves like this are firing and anybody who gets a good wave out there is a winner the end of the day. The Shootout is essentially a celebration of that.
A Now Now Media Production presented by Monster Energy
Produced by Alan van Gysen
Edited by Dane Staples
Directed by Will Bendix
Executive Producers Ryan Franklin & Ryan Payne
Director of Photography Alan van Gysen
First Camera Pete Beukes
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esus, boys that was breathtakingly gorgeous, more barrel time here than the entire pro tour over a year
@NowNowMedia
10 ай бұрын
Cheers, glad you enjoyed it!
@BoyHereWeGo
10 ай бұрын
@@NowNowMedia That was absolutely beautiful!
This has to be the most perfect wave in the world.
Skeleton Bay must surely be the longest and best wave in the world, never mind in Namibia. That side angle looking up the point is incredible.
Props to the drone pilot at 5:55 Thats some tidy lines there 🔥
@NowNowMedia
10 ай бұрын
Cheers and thanks for watching. That's Dale Staples flying the drone, almost as skilled in the air as he is in the tube.
Why do surf videos never show the pop up? I would love to see how people get into the different types of waves in the world.
@ninjagotguns
10 ай бұрын
EXACTLY!! this is what I've always been missing. Just the 5 seconds before the pop up as well, watching the surfers make the decision to go for it
@josephooks
10 ай бұрын
check out surfers of bali
@dacat8171
10 ай бұрын
Have a look at 8:46.
@timotmon
10 ай бұрын
@@dacat8171 Nice! Thanks.
@k_films-rz9yb
10 ай бұрын
It’s just this one
OH MY BOEREWORS ROLLS
Great work guys! so stoked everyone scored! that's the most perfect I've seen it in a while!!!
@NowNowMedia
10 ай бұрын
Cheers @ChrisRogers, much appreciated and thanks for watching!
BEST camera shots we have ever seen at this break, well done chaps
@NowNowMedia
10 ай бұрын
Cheers and thank you for watching.
@alejandrotobienne8220
10 ай бұрын
Not really most angles are like this.
@sferguson1130
10 ай бұрын
The vast majority of the sick SB swells I’ve seen, are POV, because the fog is gnarly.
It just goes on forever and ever!. This is some of the best surfing footage I've ever seen.
Natalia should get a little prize money for being the only one to attempt a top turn. Sweet footage. #1 wave on my bucket list.
@NowNowMedia
10 ай бұрын
She did! And for her crazy barrels. Thanks for watching.
@scottttttttttttttttttt
10 ай бұрын
Maybe she is in fact Bill Bryan’s offspring
That was awesome to watch. Everyone scoring insane long barrels. Epic
@NowNowMedia
10 ай бұрын
Cheers and thanks for watching.
Never surfed. Always a keen spectator. Great waves, great surfers, great drone footage. ✌️
@NowNowMedia
10 ай бұрын
Cheers @nickmeteor9663 , thanks for watching.
Would love to see Clay Marzo surf out there when it was firing ! He would blow peoples minds
@leeechee
10 ай бұрын
Is that you Clay?
@f0t0b0y
10 ай бұрын
Totally. Pound for pound the best Surfer on the 🌍
@jackgilligan417
10 ай бұрын
And he do it all in board shorts
@gurpreetsemby5092
10 ай бұрын
bs. he not top 100
Just imagine the millions upon millions of perfect waves, all around the world, that were never ridden. Awesome do see these beauties with someone on them.
Brendon's wave was beyond epic!
It just goes on forever and ever!
Another great job. NOW NOW. Thank u that someone is doing this.
@NowNowMedia
10 ай бұрын
Cheers @troycreatlive4148, thanks for watching.
This place is terrifying. That being said I hope to go back someday. There's an eeriness in the water that for me personally I have felt nowhere else.
This is some of the best surfing footage I've ever seen😍
@NowNowMedia
10 ай бұрын
Cheers @shainedupuis2649, thanks for watching.
Music bringing be back to the days of Transworld Surf on PS2 haha. Epic waves so cool to see a unique surf contest in some of the best and definitely longest barreling waves on earth to date.
@NowNowMedia
10 ай бұрын
Cheers @maxnuccio2440, thanks for watching.
My legs are sore just from watching them!
Flat out Awesome!!!
Lekker vibes and even better waves. Thank you for this video!
@NowNowMedia
10 ай бұрын
Cheers and thanks for watching.
Bucket list for sure! ❤
Thanks for watching! Please hit subscribe if you like what you see. We’ve got more in the making.
❤LOVE This Wave
So insanely Epic! Now Now killing it out there
@NowNowMedia
10 ай бұрын
Cheers @seatoskyadventures6130, thanks for watching.
Definition of the dream tour
@NowNowMedia
10 ай бұрын
Would have to agree.
Radical, great tube time's, legendary work boys, cheers keep em coming.
@NowNowMedia
10 ай бұрын
Cheers, thank you for watching and the support.
@ChickenJoe-tq6xd
10 ай бұрын
Yew
Nadia's stall into the tube was so dope!!
Essa onda é incrível! Seloko
Amazing to watch... great effort all round...
@NowNowMedia
10 ай бұрын
Cheers and thanks for watching @gavinderbyshire5535
Yeww! Pits for years 🙌🏼
Every wave was a perfect 10.
Dream session!
Great video and the drone segment at 5m 40s is absolutely brilliantly done. 👏
@NowNowMedia
10 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching @jxbusic. The drone work is by Dale Staples - incidentally he's as good in the tube at Skeleton Bay as he is at getting those shots.
Holy cow! This is mental!
Wild, no crowd, a true wave machine. 😅
Grande Nadia!!
Incredible video...thank you
@NowNowMedia
10 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching @craigperry5729
INSANE!!!
Amazing!
Great waves would be nice to see a few take offs.
Como diria mi hijo Gaspar. Deditos para arriba. Viva el Surf!!!! Viva la vida!!
Whoop whoop 🙌🏼 🎉
Que alucinaaanteeeeeee!
Beautiful
reminds me of a video game! so perfect!
How often does it break like this? Just amazing.
Dang I'm hooked,great video
@NowNowMedia
10 ай бұрын
Thank you for watching.
Unbelievable wave so cool how long it lasts and how many waves line up
Wowsers this is mental, I can only imagine all the other clips banked from the run off swell from all the other surfers, how about a part 2?
@NowNowMedia
10 ай бұрын
Cheers Jerome. Definitely some leftovers...
Look like Max Elkington had the perfect setup with that thruster. He was just sitting right in the pocket. Making it look effortless. RLTW 3/75
Great video! I think its imposible to rate scores it those long perfect waves, everyones getting barrels!
@NowNowMedia
10 ай бұрын
Cheers and thank you for watching @ramonhernandez5743
Incredible ly cool
@NowNowMedia
10 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching.
Nadia, una máquina Española ❤
Maybe Kelly added his pool machine in there! haha amazing
amazing
I started surfing in 1960 in Southern California. I enjoyed long board surfing maybe 5 feet max waves in a "stately" manner. All the crouching and hunching I see in these videos today makes me wince. It can't feel as enjoyable. An opinion of course.
eeeeeeeepic!!!
Amazing
Galera fez a cabeça nestas kilometricas ondas tubulares, parabens.Mahalo.
Thanks 👍 that was truly Beautiful 😍
@NowNowMedia
10 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching!
So nice
brilliant
Mad spot
Think about Kelly Slater and these waves! Mind Blown!
@NowNowMedia
10 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching @Kahuna54 - word has it that Kelly Slater may be there right now.
Those Sets look like out of a Park, one right after the other like Clockwork.
Cette vague est juste incroyable
Bucket list f sure, got surf magazine about that serf zone
#DVG in in the mix again
sick sick sick
This is as perfect as slaters wave pool except much bigger just knarly as hell wish I was there don't you?
have to carry your lunch with ya on some of those rides
Clean surf, the water cleanness is debatable. Aloha
@NowNowMedia
10 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching @michaelnicholls8527 . The water quality is actually really good, the colour comes from all the sediment moving around and upwelling.
One dude after another so deep inside the barrel that you wouldn't even see them from the shore til they emerged like 30--45 seconds later
Oh the cramps ! Worth every twinge...lol
Top shelf shit right here!
I remember first seeing this wave in the lost redux vid...it still just doesn't even look real!
This is the best wave in the world, just saying, this video (again and again and again and again) is the evidence...is the proof. Yisem chaaaana's!!! the stoke is real!
@NowNowMedia
10 ай бұрын
Cheers and thank you for watching. Would have to agree - nothing quite compares to Namibia and Skeleton Bay.
Shaking head in amazement..
Nadia was the stand out ❤
Wow wow wow.
Put me in the Game coach..Krazy
Beautiful,would it be a bit too much to ask for clear blue water.😉😉😉😉🤙🤙🤙🤙
@NowNowMedia
10 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching. Give this a play if you're after clear blue water: kzread.info/dash/bejne/eJ6dstCwlKzTe9I.html
@banzospod
10 ай бұрын
@@NowNowMedia WOW,thanks for that.Cowabungaaaaaaa
Boogie ❤
One of life's greatest tragedies is that this wave isn't a right
Only thing I can say is wish i was there
First time I’ve ever seen SB, not look absolutely terrifying ( excluding the wave ). It’s almost always exclusively low vis water, foggy, POV, that makes it look like they’re surfing on the moon, with seal colonies & great whites
I like surf and animals saving ❤
what a wave....
omg!! so fkg dope amazing.
Yew!!🤙🤙🤙
this place needs to be balified and PRONTO!!!
I hope I will surf this wave one day 🙏 it's very difficult the wave?
Always been the best wave in the world. For its size every other spot is off the radar.!!!!
@NowNowMedia
10 ай бұрын
Would have too agree - no other wave like Skeleton Bay. Thanks for watching.
IS THIS SPOT ON THE NAMIBIAN COAST FANTASTIC VID. 10:13
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Yusssus
Question. I’m not a surfer but thinking about getting into it. I always was into body boarding. But anyway. Do people who discover these spots get pissed when they get blown up? Or do they like sharing them? Skeleton bay was hardly even known 10 years ago
@Zion66666
9 ай бұрын
Getting to this spot is so challenging it’s not likely it will ever be packed