Soup Bowl Is Josh Burke’s Personal Playground

Soup Bowl is one of those spots that’s onshore 98% of the time, yet still it provides relentless wave quality.

Take this edit of Josh Burke for example.

Not a single offshore or even glassy session, yet Josh still manages to find plenty of clean walls and even the odd tube.

For those who haven’t visited Barbados, the wave has a special bending effect that makes the rider feel like he’s surfing toward the beach rather than into the channel. This results in an ever-present lip to hit and, on the right double-up section, a highly habitable cave within which one may choose to camp himself. 

Due to its down-the-line wind pattern, performance at Soupbowl is typically limited to carves and lip bashes, but after years of surfing the urchin-covered reef, Josh has learned to add some slides and whips into his approach, which makes for highly pleasurable viewing.