Compilation of different, unique and odd ways of surfing giant waves.
Paddle in, Tow in,
SUP/
Stand Up Paddleboard, Foilboarding, Bodyboarding, Skimboarding
...
Taken from following videos:
1.
Shane Dorian - at
Jaws 1 - 2016 Billabong
Ride of the Year
Entry -
WSL Big Wave Awards
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDzpaA8pKZY
2.
Andrew Cotton - at
Nazaré - 2014 Ride of the Year Entry -
Billabong XXL Big Wave Awards
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3VqaW_HCaQ
3. Windsurfing
Jaws -
The mother of all waves with
Jason Polakow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4znK_XdzUM
4. Xensr - Pro-kiteboarders
Jesse Richman and Patri McLaughlin kitesurf
JAWS - 12-26-13
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie_Acz7PZDE
5.
Kai Lenny on his recent mind-bending SUP barrel at Jaws - 3-2-2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL_FAkFkneI
6.
Nomad Bodyboards Big Wave Awards - Entry #7
Damien Martin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIvyngTkvXQ
7. Big Wave
Surfing famous surfer
Laird Hamilton 80-100 Feet - Foilboarding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB-SQhg1z9A
8.
Brad Domke Skimboards
Better Than You'll
Ever Surf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxwB1BhuFpU
9.
Jamie O'brien -
Who is JOB 5.0 -
Giant Barrels on
Water Skis and
Sharks Cove Surfing - Ep 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lLKs4lDSEs
10. DC SHOES- ROBBIE MADDISON'S '
PIPE DREAM' - Motorcross/Dirtbike
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDi9uFcD7XI
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Big wave surfing is the ultimate celebration of extreme surfing. Challenging deadly waves in harsh weather and ocean conditions takes a very serious approach.
Big wave surfers are not interested in performance.
Forget perfect cutbacks, stunning floaters or breathless aerial antics. The profile of a big wave rider is the result of several unparalleled personal characteristics.
Fear is always present in a 50-foot wave. Fear is the best way of managing the risk of paddling for a huge wave face, which doesn't tell you what is going to happen and how it is going to break.
Monster waves tend to move quickly and force surfers to get away of the powerful whitewater.
Big waves are lethal even for the most experienced extreme riders. The best big wave surf spots in the world have claimed several lives in the last decades.
Malik Joyeux,
Sion Milosky, Moto Watanabe,
Mark Foo,
Donnie Solomon,
Todd Chesser,
Dickie Cross and
Peter Davi have passed away in extreme surfing conditions. Wipeouts, severe coral reef injuries and drowning are the most common causes of death in big wave surfing.
The pioneers of big wave surfing started to eye impossible killer rides in the
1940's
. In the 1960's, waves like
Pipeline and Waimea increased the popularity of paddling into new wave heights.
Going over the falls was the daily menu.
Laird Hamilton is the first professional big wave surfer. The waterman from
Maui defies fast, hollow and high waves with a full-time training and previous preparation.
Hamilton, the father of tow-in surfing, takes on the entire big wave spots of the
Hawaiian Islands, in helicopter style.
Laird was born with the gene of defying danger. He designs and prepares his own surfboards and wetsuits. Wherever heavy waves break, Hamilton is there to ride them:
Mavericks,
Cortes Bank,
Dungeons.
In
2000, Laird Hamilton surfs what is considered the heaviest wave of all time.
The "Millennium Wave" was ridden in the reef of
Teahupoo, in
Tahiti, and set a new standard for big wave surfing.
Garrett McNamara is one of the toughest big wave challengers. After riding a spectacular 78-foot wave in
Nazaré, Portugal, the
Hawaiian waterman entered the
Guinness World Records with the biggest wave ever surfed.
The 55 best big wave surfers of all time is an exclusive extreme surfing club. From Jaws to Mavericks,
Puerto Escondido,
Punta Lobos,
Ghost Trees,
Belharra,
Shipstern Bluff and
Todos Santos,
Nazare. these riders have set up a new scale in the definition of giant waves. They are:
Al Mennie,
Andy Irons,
Anthony Tashnick,
Ben Wilkinson,
Bob Pike,
Brock Little,
Buzzy Trent,
Carlos Burle,
Chris Bertish,
Danilo Couto,
Darrick Doerner,
Darryl Virostko,
Dave Kalama,
Dave Wassel,
Eddie Aikau,
Frank Solomon,
Gabriel Villaran, Garrett McNamara,
George Downing, Brad Gerlach,
Gerry Lopez, Grant
Twiggy,
Baker Grant Washburn,
Greg Long,
Greg Noll,
Ian Walsh, Jamie
Sterling,
Jay Moriarty,
Jeff Clark,
Jeff Rowley,
Jose Angel,
João de
Macedo, Kai Barger, Keala Kennely,
Ken Bradshaw, Ken Colllins,
Koby Abberton, Kohl Christensen, Laird Hamilton,
Laurie Towner, Mark Foo,
Mark Healey,
Mark Mathews,
Mark Visser ,
Maya Gabeira,
Mike Parsons,
Nathan Fletcher, Pat Curren,
Peter Mel,
Ramon Navarro,
Richie Fitzgerald,
Ross Clarke-Jones, Shane Dorian, Sion Milosky, Zach
Wormhoudt
- published: 30 Apr 2016
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