HOSSEGOR WENT NUCLEAR 🇫🇷
INSANE FRENCH BARRELS

After one of the quietest winters in years, the French coast finally came alive.

Last Wednesday delivered the kind of surf locals will remember for a long time.

At low tide, La Nord in Hossegor turned into a full-blown barrel machine. Massive waves, perfectly shaped tubes and powerful lines running down the sandbank.

As the tide started pushing, the action shifted to La Gravière, where the sandbank was sitting exactly where surfers dream about it. Deep caverns, heavy drops and wild barrels all afternoon.

Days like this are incredibly rare on this beautiful but notoriously fickle beach break.

After such a timid winter, it feels like we’re witnessing the kind of surf we haven’t seen here in decades.

Welcome to Hossegor, France — the European barrel capital.

Daily surf footage from Hossegor and the French Atlantic coast. RIPITUP captures raw surf sessions, heavy beach break barrels and the best moments happening in the water. Subscribe for more surf from Hossegor, La Gravière and the legendary French beach breaks. Images & edit: RIPITUP Additional footage drone : Nicolas Lepercq RIPITUP - Surf media based in Hossegor, France