Duncan Coombs
Big Wednesday in Moulay we saw Boujmaa go out on the high tide when the swell was maxed out and the biggest. It was so impressive to see him handle those conditions. He knows the spot so well that he was able to pick off waves that were not closing out. He had the balls to actually hit the lip and be out there amongst it. It was incredible to see. The waves were breaking all the way to the horizon, maybe two or three miles out, we could not really tell if he was ever out the back! I am not sure if there even was an ‘out the back’! It looked like he was risking his life. There was no ski or rescue. If he went down out there he would have probably been swimming for one or two hours. We saw him hit 30 foot ramps out the back and jump another 30 foot in the air. He must have been sixty feet up on the other side of the wave. That was equal to watching Traversa, Brawzinho or Leon Jamaer at the Red Bull Storm Chase. Boujmaa has been on the ‘Storm Chase’ so he is used to those extreme conditions. It was a little bit trickier in Moulay I think, the wind was comparatively light and there was no channel at all. He had to punch his way through double mast high sets just to be amongst it. The hill on the top of Moulay was packed with tourists and all the crew from the PWA and IWT. It was truly a spectacle to behold. It was something I will always remember; some of those walls of whitewater were double mast high! I don’t think I have seen seas like that apart from at the Red Bull Storm Chase, but he was out there on his own without safety.