When the oceanswell is westerly, the surfers in st. Maria wake up and nervously start arranging there gear on
their cars, locals walking the streets with surfboards under their arms.... the town changes. For some geographical reason on the oceanbottom the swell at Ponta Preta
is pumped up higher and releases it's energy on this pointbreak with a spectacular, world famous result.
Breathless... is what you will be gazing when a set of waves comes in. Its starts to break a few hundred meters
out of the black rocks and rolls clean and hollow over a length of 300 meter untill it hits the white sandy beach
in the form of a killing shorebreak.
This is the spot where the Kite Wavemasters is held, it's the backyard of Josh Angulo, 2003 PWA world champion.
It is possible you will see Bjorn Dunckerbeck and many other international (former) wind- kite- and surfchampions.
The place has an atmosphere of good vibration.
The wind is mostly cross offshore or dead off and sometimes sideshore from the right. This, combined with the huge waves which
can easily reach
5 meters and breaking sometimes just before 10 meters from razorsharp rocks, witholds most kitesurfers to go out here but just watch the spectacle.
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And I don't tell them wrong. Ponta Preta is not a place to learn kiting nor a place to learn waveriding cause the smallest mistake
can cost you your kite, board or worse. Only try this place if you feel comfortable in over (double) manhigh waves with sometimes
gusty winds... and a lot of co-wave users like (wind)surfers, bodyboarders... respect the line up. Don't loose your board cause the
rocks will eat it and don't loose the kite or somebody in Brazil will find it
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By the way....when the oceanswell is less than 2 meters Ponta Preta is as flat as ice. Check "Forecast" in the menu to your left for a reliable
forecast for the waves and wind.
