SURFING THE SWELL OF THE DECADE IN MADEIRA ISLAND | VON FROTH
Known for its powerful, heavy, long, and perfect waves, Madeira Island is seen by many as the Hawaii of the Atlantic. Surrounded by crystal-clear blue waters and covered lush subtropical vegetation it plays the part all too well. But the absence of big crowds, the fine wine culture, the boulder-riddled beaches, the delicious food and the general look and vibe of Madeira, really sets it all apart. For this trip Nic Von Rupp scored the biggest and better aligned swell we’ve seen here in years. It was a Day of Days at Jardim do Mar, arguably the best big wave pointbreak in the world. Joined by fellow riders, Hawaiian Big Wave Charger, Torrey Meister, Grant “Twiggy” Baker, Miguel Blanco, Lourenço Katzenstein and Portuguese young gun, João Maria Mendonça and with a shooting crew on a boat, it was an unique day captured under a never seen before angle in beyond perfection sort of day. Come and join u us in the line-up.
Supported by @visitportugal
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Special Thanks to
Reid's Palace Belmond Hotel Madeira - www.belmond.com/hotels/europe...
Orlando Pereira - Surf guiding - madeirasurfing.wixsite.com/ma...
Production and Direction
Von Rupp Media
Filmed and Edited by
Kenneth Kemp
Kristjan Taal
Animation
Jaan Sinka
Sound Design
Francisco Schlingenzipen
Production Assistance
António Fernandes de Oliveira
Additional Footage
Hugo Almeida
Mendo Dornellas
Music by
Dead Poet Society - .burymewhole.
Vandelux - NANA
Vandelux - Tulum (MADEIRA)
Afterclapp - Baiao Temperado
Caribou - Home
Amazing Episode Nic such a beautiful place and you do it justice keep them Rolling 📽️📸🎬🩵🤙🏴
Thank's for this wonderful video of this wonderful island!👍🌅🌄🏄♂️👏
Amazing video. Visited Madeira 8 years ago -- incredible place!!
That trip was an eye opener, thank you Mother Nature for providing the goods!
Best episode this one! Incredible place
Thanks for this wonderful video of this beautiful island, I like a lot, the vawes are looking so bright hi nic
Fantastic Giant surf. Great paddle wave.
This kid is legit. And Portugal is just amazing.
Beautiful video😍 thanks for sharing🙏🙏
Wow amazing vid buddy! Incredible waves and incredibly beautiful island!! I need to visit! Thank u!
yeah boys!!! absolutely nuts.
Beautiful video and amazing vibes! Greetings from south Brazil
Great quality vid. beautiful place
dude.. thanks.. dope island.. love it.. right on.. ✌😎
Nice video, lots of passion. Really like the extra dialogue Nic.
Amazing quality, video and WAVES! JM rocks! Keep up the good work Nic. Spot on!
Great video... ❤ Madeira
The Landscape is just Astonishing. And with those waves it becames even more Epic. Magical Place.👍👍👏👏👏
Another epic one Nik! ❤
Show ... não sabia que a ilha da Madeira era tão bonita assim. Parabéns.
Já lá fui 2 vezes e quero repetir. É uma ilha mágica !
Great bombs, guys. Good waves.👏👏👏
Um dos lugares mais belos do Planeta.
Epic and romantic!🔥
MAGNIFICO
I remember reading about the waves of Madeira in a surf memoir and it always stuck with me. Seeing it actually on film is amazing to put together my imagination of the experiences I read to what you just lived! Thanks for the vid brass! And most importantly God bless.
Barbarian Days?
You know 😉
William Finnegan. Fantastic lecture and biography
@@JesusSavesandRomeEnslaves❤geeetve❤2txxz Ç
Magnifique!
Some good! I'll have to visit then!🤩
I could comment on how awesome this video is for about a 1/2 an hour or more. Absolutely awesome in and out of the water. Thank you, Nick and aloha, Son
Appreciate it 🙏🏼
The production quality is on par with the XXL bombs in this video! Well done Nic, Madeira looks EPIC!
Thank you!
I'm currently in Nazare on a longtime bucket list trip. Now I want to go to Madeira! Your video really captured its beauty for sure! Thank you!
11:22
😊@@BiswanathShil-jn1lf
You are the man!!!
Looks paradise
It's perfect. Love old world culture and clean big waves!
Who doesn’t eheh
Beautiful video showing everything about Madeira’s amazing atmosphere. Thanks to your video you did a year ago, I chose to go on a surf trip, and it didn’t disappoint at all. I had crazy waves in Paul do Mar and Ponta Paul. Almost alone in the water. I had the chance to met Orlando. The people on the island are very welcoming. Cheers for everything Nic !
Sick edit, perfect mix of surfing and lifestyle
Thank you
Been fantasizing about the waves there for 3 decades and in more recent years found out how amazing it also is for mountain biking. I NEED to go!
It’s a dream island
Can confirm the biking is so sick!
Im from India but i love and awesome this nature 🌄🌄🌄
OMG that over the falls moment at 6:20 !!!! That was enough time to take in the scenery as you were heading over 🙂
holy damn
INSANITY ❤
This video is inspiring me to revisit Madeira. One of the most magical and beautiful places I've ever been in the world.
Great stuff. Great filmmaking and story. Fkn A.
Well Thanks for rubbing it in like always my friend Hope that you have a prosperous New Year Be well and God Bless You and Yours 👍🤙
What da hell! This looks like the eddie!! Madeira is wild! 🤙
Sickkkkkkk
Liked Madeira so much that I got my first tattoo of the coordinates of the island on my forearm. Beautiful place , Great food, and super friendly people. Made several friends and looking forward to meeting them again someday. Always tip your waiters and waitresses well
Incredible
They had a jet ski for safety and did Paddle-In catching waves. ooh good😊
Mr Van Rupp. Thanks for the trip... and emphasizeing experts only. Which you and your crew are. Gladiators!!!
Dope🔥
Video production getting better and better..great trip🤙
Production quality is top notch.
Thank you
your videos are like a cinema movie, please never stop!
You rock!
Love the intro of the region and history and then the boys charging!!!
Thank you for spoiling one of the last untouched pearls.
You promoted it by commenting and viewing 😂
Top man 👌
what a beautiful video! Not just the surfing, also the island seems to be unreal! Thanks for sharing!
Well done, bravo to the camera guy with the drone. Catching the board pulling that surfer back over the falls like that. Never seen that before, such powerful waves, and beautiful too.
Glad you enjoyed it
that was such a beautiful and scary sight
Such a beautiful place Nic...Thanks for showing us the beauty of Madeira and its powerful waves ....Would definitely have a condo there for vacations.....
🙌🏻
Nic ..what is the best month to visit for best waves...I'm just there to photograph and watch the surfers..I'm kinda retired from surfing..I will fly into Lisbon....Thank you ..Greg @@nicvonrupp1671
Awesome videos - they bring you to the right mood 💪🏽🏄🏽♂🤙🏽
Yes they do!
What a gorgeous place! And the waves, you should have kept that to yourselves.
Incredible surfer. Beautiful edit. Really really awkward bro-hugger! 😂
Dude you are amazing a keep up living your life and letting us in 🔥🫶🏻🙏
Bacana seus vídeos, valeu!
Great video. The footage was high quality. What’s the name of the surf break you were surfing?
Very cool Video!👌🏼
Epic
This is a legit big wave spot! How is this not as known? Amazing; great footage guys!
I think people try and keep it under wraps so as not to spoil it
It's actually pretty well known. But yeah, it's not Nazare or Jaws.
Very well know is no secret...
I'm portuguese and had no idea Madeira had such surf
Thanks for using our song dude! Honored!
what song?
That place is amazing even if you don't surf! Great Video!
The best!
Beautiful! 🌊
An important thing to note...the wave was even better prior to the construction of the break wall. Fortunately this wave still exists in some form but a good reminder of how development can entirely or partially ruin a wave.
Beautiful video, sick waves, amazing location. 🤙🏼🤙🏼
Thank you
Paddle in commitment,I love it for the purity.👍
Your surfing has taken a next step. I am not a surfer but I skate and watcha lot of surfing videos. You working out a lot or just surfing a lot and progressing? You have developed into one of the most technically sound balls to the wall surfers on youtube which means the world. YEWWW
Appreciate the feedback thank you 🙏🏼
Amazing, Nic!
Fantástico vídeo, no começo pensei que eras americano mas quando falas-te a primeira palavra em português, obviamente num sotaque perfeito que só um português poderia ter, pensei como é possível um americano ter este sotaque perfeito, quando ouvi a segunda palavra em português disse logo, é português 🙂 Parabéns por divulgar o surf e a Madeira
Português/alemão...
🙂@@edgarmalveiro5315
You are one of the best promotors of Portugal. Amazing vid
I'll be there soon.
Yikes...buried at 6:18! What an epic day.
Those are some very serious waves..truely xxl category…some serious beatings there.👍🏆
Indeed!
nic strikes again
I moved to Madeira and started surfing recently. I hope someday I will also catch one of those waves! Very inspiring!
Thank you 🙏🏼
This place looks awesome. I have never even heard of the place. A place I would want to live for sure.
Gentrification by surf noobs. The nightmare of islanders
@@79pejeperro localism crybabies and thugs. the fascists in the world of watersports
@@79pejeperro been surfing for years but I definitely get what you’re saying. Nobody wants the place they live get overwhelmed by people that change the place in a way the locals don’t like. It’s happening in America right now.
You guys had a great time. Very cool video. Thanks.
Thank you
beautiful place man, had no idea it even existed......looks unreal!
It really is
Turismo AD ....but yeah sick waves lads
Hey Nic great vid which is best/favourite Madeira or Sao Miguel?
Amazing episode, please keep posting
epic mountain biking there too: surf and turf!
Great job in making it even more crowded just so you can get some clicks. What happened to keeping places secret or at least make people work to figure it out. FYI I was there in 1997.
Estivemos na ilha da Madeira no último julho, em família. Lugar fantástico, um verdadeiro paraíso na terra. Para voltar muitas vezes. Parabéns pelas grandes ondas surfadas! Estivemos aí no verão e logicamente estava flat. Baita vídeo! Funchal, vilas, mar, serra, trilhas, uhuhuuuu🤙🤙🤙
Nic I love watching surfing videos, the waves looked incredible! But as you went exploring and showed the camera/ drone shots my mouth fell open. Madeira is absolutely beautiful. Blown away. The size of the cliffs, the trees, it's just glorious. Thank you for sharing.
Hey nick I know you surfed figuera do foz , I dnt know if you surfed it big, if you did how does it compare to Madeira. We chatted once before , as I surfed figuera do foz out by the lighthouse down to the river in 1979 with some guys including Graham Nile who you may have heard of. Surprised if you haven’t. He is in his seventies now and I’m 66 this year. Still surfing as is Graham from what I hear still trying o win everything
Amazing. Thanks!!!
Super great experience for us watching and you and friends. Thanks for the views
Que linndo madeira
06:17 great views from here
What's the song at 9:10 ? couldn't find it in the "Music By" section/ description. Awesome surf and quality!
Nice, another sick vid. Incredibly large, challenging waves. Come visit NorCal, it’s been pumping.