Natxo Gonzalez

Kicking off the new year with a good surf. | Sessions: Mundaka

This is how Spain's best wave rang in the New Year. Watch Natxo González and friends spend the first hours of 2018 in the belly of Mundaka beasts.

A DREAM COME TRUE · NATXO GONZALEZ

This is the story of a young man who started with the classic surfing career. After Surfing his first big waves and pulling into big barrel and through the inspiration that is his good friend Kepa Acero, he found his passion for the exploration and the discovery.
Four years ago he found an area on google maps that looked like it had great potential. After waiting for a long time the charts finally revealed a swell that was traveling thousands of kilometres across the ocean and he knew that this was his opportunity.
Arriving in the fading light of the first day, the waves were small but looked perfect. But doubts remained: was the wave too fast? The next day all questions were answered, all the dreams and expectations were about to come real...

A film by jonaspuru.com Jon Aspuru (@jonbakio)

Surfing the monstrous Waves of Ireland

Want to be one of the best big wave surfers in the world? Then we hope you've been taking some notes from Natxo González this past year. The 21-year-old Basque surfer has been strategically ping-ponging around the globe, chasing the biggest swells the both hemispheres have had to offer. So when the charts turned purple off the Irish coast earlier this year, González was there.

I R E L A N D · NATXO GONZALEZ & INDAR UNANUE

A Jon Aspuru Film.
Natxo Gonzalez & Indar Unanue travel to Ireland to face the most cold, dark and big waves of the north hemisphere swell season.
Starring: Natxo Gonzalez, Indar Unanue, Patrick Wilson, Tom Lowe, Willam Skudin, Conor Maguire
Additional Footage by Chris McClean and Clem McCinerney

NAMIBIA - LEGENDARY

A film by Jon Aspuru (@jonbakio) starring Natxo Gonzalez (@natxogonzalez1) , Aritz Aranburu (@aritzaranburu) and Adrian Fernandez de Valderrama (@adrofernandez).

No need for a lot of words here really: Simply Skeleton Bay at its heaviest.

Radical Times in Spain

We wanted to experience Spain. Like, really experience Spain, in all of its mysterious, lispy glory. So with the help of long time team rider and local skater Javier Mendizabal, we planned a trip. Then we rallied a crew - Snowboarders Bryan Fox, Austen Sweetin and Mathieu Crepel. Surfers; Mikey February and Natxo Gonzalez and skater Zach Miller. And then we went.

From post-surf pintxos in San Sebastian to sleepless nights spent in the streets of Barcelona, everything was better than we could have imagined.

It was cultural, chaotic and everything in between. And it was all motivated by a passion for boardriding. We spent two weeks there and you can join us on our journey in the clip above.

Once the credits have rolled, dig through our Boardrider’s travel Guide and trace some of our steps, then start planning your own Radical Time in Spain.

Radical Times in Namibia

It was 4:30 in the morning, and we were on our way to the wave. The first light of the morning was showing. The sea sounded strong. We drove alongside the coast at full speed, about to reach the spot, full of excitement. As we came around the bend in the coastline, we saw a wave slowing down in the fog. Finally, we could see what had since then been a longtime dream. We followed the shoreline 100 meters, 200 meters, 500 meters. The wave seemed so perfect and static at the same time, it’s barrel spinning tight. We couldn’t help but to start screaming.
The bay became a sacred temple of endless tubes. I'd never seen anything like it. If there was ever a reason to believe in a higher power, this was the place to find it.
After ten hours of tubes and pure bliss, we had ridden the best waves of our lives. We felt like the happiest men in the world. The swell was slowing down, and it would be gone tomorrow. But that day was the day. Those memories are ones we will never be able to forget.
Staring - Kepa Acero / Natxo Gonzalez
Film & Edit - Igor Bellido
Music - Ember days by Arrows & Bullets