History of Uluwatu

Uluwatu was known by many local surfers in the early 1960's and 1970's, but nobody had ever surfed it because it was almost impossible to go down the face of the cliff to go surfing. In 1971 Steve Cooney and rusty miller aged 15 came to the island of Bali. They stayed in Kuta surfing waves there. When both landed in Bali, before they landed they had both seen a break far of the point of the peninsula, they wondered what that break was. The day after they arrived, Kuta had waves of 3ft, they decided to go check out what they saw from the plane. They ended up finding it. They said that it was huge and just flawless. They knew from that moment on that they had just made history. They had heard from the locals that nobody had ever surfed there before. They found a way down the cliff. They got into the water and started surfing. Hundreds of locals that lived near by in the are of Uluwatu were watching them from the cliff. The first wave when they steve took, both of them just started yelling and screaming. They had just discover a huge part of surfing, they had discovered a magnificent, strong heavy wave.

                                            Rusky miller aged 15, first to surf Uluwatu 1971

Now, Die hard surfers surfing this:

World class wave....