Hollow Trees or Lances Right, as the reader prefers to call it, has the particularity that the drop of the first section is more laid back, calmer, and then turns into an impressive square barrel.

The advantage, of course, is that it gives you time to read the wave and settle more or less deep in the tube, and the disadvantage is what you can see in the video. Not positioning yourself well in the drop spot can end up in you "doing an impossible floater" in the section of the tube. As happened to the friend in the video.

He came down calmly but got stuck on the step and the result was one of the worst hits of this endless swell in Indonesia:

 

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