{"id":724914,"date":"2026-06-09T10:12:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T10:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/724914\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T10:12:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T10:12:25","slug":"bank-vaults-was-about-as-good-as-it-gets-on-may-28th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/724914\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank Vaults Was About As Good As It Gets On May 28th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-325123\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-325123\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ank-670x388.jpg\" alt=\"Bank Vaults surfing in the Mentawai Islands\" width=\"670\" height=\"388\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-325123\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Waves don\u2019t get better than this. Photo: YouTube\/\/Screenshot<\/p>\n<p>        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/favicon-surf.png\" alt=\"The Inertia\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" class=\"lazyload\"\/><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re going to rob a bank, you should always hit the vault. There\u2019s more risk, yeah, but a hell of a lot more of a reward. That\u2019s likely why Bank Vaults is named Bank Vaults, and on May 28, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=x3bFGVkgnXY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">it was about as good as it can get<\/a>. Hell, it was about as good as any wave can get.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood\u201d in surfing is a bit subjective. My ideal wave might not be yours. You might prefer a punchy beachbreak while I like a long point. You might prefer a left over a right. You might prefer a wave so big it can kill you, while I like my waves just big enough to give me a bit of a quickened heartbeat. But I think we can all safely agree that the waves during this session at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinertia.com\/surf\/coronavirus-surfing-bank-vaults-mentawaii-tube-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Bank Vaults<\/a>\u00a0were, well\u2026 they were perfect.<\/p>\n<p>The reef that the wave trips over there in the Mentawai Islands is a steep one. It rises up from the open ocean to trip up the incoming swell, producing a thick, heavy tube. It\u2019s not flat all that often, either, but when it really shines is when those bigger, long-period swells are tracking towards it.<\/p>\n<p>Like most good barrels, Bank Vaults doles out a steep take off over an almost-dry slab of coral reef. If you make the drop, you\u2019re basically in the right spot for one of the best barrels of your life \u2014 if you make the drop.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Waves don\u2019t get better than this. Photo: YouTube\/\/Screenshot If you\u2019re going to rob a bank, you should always&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[64,63,9671,351097,351098,351099,128],"class_list":["post-724914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bank","tag-bank-vaults","tag-kandui-resort","tag-mentawai-islands","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}