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getting barrelled
Anyone else been properly or partially sup barelled and can describe the feeling?

I've had a few close calls (never made it out of one), but had a really unique moment when going out in low tide heavy hollow 2.2m waves the other day. I pulled in to one and just watched the whole face open up as I dropped in. Rather than trying to go down and back up vertical for a hack the wave just called for me to cling to the wall and tuck in.
It felt like such a surreal moment with the board awkwardly pitched at such an accute angle slightly sliding down while going horizontal on a near vertical face. I had my am1 fins in and felt on that verge of both sticking and unsticking from the wave!
For awhile (what seemed like eternity) the wall just kept going on and slowing folding over- beckoning me to stay on it's face.
Then all of a sudden the wave just started to close out 3m in front of me and without any time to get out, had air-flipped me in to the pit with its bowling lip. I vividly remember those breif few mili-seconds of nothing-ness as I was in the air (not on the wave and not on the board) trying to grasp a breath knowing what was going to happen next.

I thought I had come out relatively unscathed until having a sore neck for the past 2 days!
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