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Teiki Mathieu Baillan surfing a self-made Alaya surfboard in Macaroni, Mentawaï, Indonesia. Photo by C. Naslain, 2009.
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Uchiumi - Curren's point
Japan, Kyushu
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Datum: WGS84 [ Help ] |
Latitude: 31° 44.702' N |
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Drive down the Nichinan coast up to where the Mobile oil tanks are. There's a 7/11. You can park there and further down the road. DistanceTake a car WalkShort walk (5-15 mn) Easy to find?OK Public access?Public access Special accessDon't know |
Surf Spot Characteristics
Alternative name Curren's Spot
Surf Spot Quality
Wave qualityWorld Class
ExperienceExperienced surfers
FrequencyRegular
Wave
TypeReef-rocky
DirectionRight
BottomReef (coral, sharp rocks etc..)
PowerPowerful
Normal lengthNormal (50 to 150m)
Good day lengthVery Long (300 to 500 m)
Tide, Swell and Wind
Good swell directionNorth, East, NorthEast
Good wind directionWest
Swell sizeStarts working at 1.5m-2m /5ft-6ft and holds up to 4m+ / 12ft
Best tide positionAll tides
Best tide movement
More details
Week crowdFew surfers
Week-end crowdFew surfers
Dangers
- Urchins
- Rips / undertow
- Rocks
Additional Information
This wave is extremely powerful and can rip your wetsuit off. The waves hold you down like Haleiwa toilet bowl on the NorthSHore of Oahu and have the same kind of water color.You can get tubed, like Curren showed it in 1991, but this wave can break your leg too!
Atmosphere
Easy to get waves when the waves get double overhead as the crowd quickly thins out.
General
Good spot on the right swell direction. Can be annoying to eat it at low tide and get pushed towards the sow like rocky bottom.
Author: Anonymous Contributors (3)
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By Anonymous , 16-06-2006
- Currens hardly ever breaks. the main break here is a left, on the left in front of some convenience store. Shallow and crowded unless it's goin off, and then you can be a star for a day as the pussies line up to watch from the shore.
By Arekusu , 17-05-2006
Got it wrong! - I lived and surfed in the 'Zak for several years and you've confused two spots here. Uchiumi is a left inside the Uchiumi harbour breaking just left of a rock that sticks up from the sharply ridged rockbed. It's a quick, barrelling wave and only works on good-sized southerly and south-westerly swells. It has a tight local crew, but if you wait your turn you'll get rides. Curren's Point is actually to the right and south of this spot. It only works on big typhoon swells and again breaks over very shallow ridged rocks. Neither are secrets - just search on the web!
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By anonymous , 13-03-2007
- surfed it once, 3-4ft at mid-tide with about 15 people and it felt crowded. one take off spot. line up boys. wave was fairly slow, but clean and easy to paddle out; just jump off the wall.