Luhrsen wins South Bay Boardrider Big Wave Challenge at Redondo Breakwall
Angelo Luhrsen on his Big Wave Challenge Award winning wave at the Redondo Breakwall on January 7. Photo by Charles Scholz. Angelo Luhrsen and his number one surf bro and fellow big wave charger Connor Beatty could not decide whether to paddle out or not. The Redondo Breakwall was macking. The other Breakwall locals were sitting on the wall, watching. Spectators were gathered on the beach next to the Chart House, drawn by the Thursday, January 7 forecast for the biggest Southern California swell in over a decade. Their surf check was supposed to be a quick one. After riding mostly closed out Torrance Beach earlier that morning, Luhrsen and Beatty had stopped at the Breakwall with their big guns, enroute north, to a better known bombora that handles large swells. “Breakwall was big and ugly but after seeing one rideable wave, we were on it,” Luhrsen said. The decision would earn Luhrsen the South Bay Boardriders 2015-16 Big Wave Challenge award, which was accompanied by a Pat Reardon big wave gun and $3,000. In large Breakwater surf, the whitewater is too powerful to paddle out through from the beach. So surfers walk out, roughly 200 yards, along a walkway at the top of the…
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