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Crazy fucking breeder.Comment
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Wowsa...
I used to dream of doing that exact thing as a kid.
Awesome to see it in action.-D.
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crazy bastardComment
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That's amazing...Comment
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Not a tsunami but I think that's out at sea near some submerged island where the waves are just insane like that. I saw a movie about it. It's a few hour boat ride to get out to it and they have to use the jet-Skis to take them out to catch the waves as well as retrieve them afterwards.
Definitely balls of steel!Comment
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That was really awesome!cool
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Wow that dude is an idiot.. lolComment
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Balls of steel, indeed. Sick camera work too. Not a tsunami though... Peahi, Maui, aka Jaws. Here's some wipe out footy from the same wave:
http://www.surfermag.com/av/tow-in/jwswpouts/Comment
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I think that's Laird hamilton... I never get tired of watching that...makes me go WOW...just...WOW every time. Even the whitewater looks over 10 feet.
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its not a tsunami... its "jaws" a break on the outer reefs of maui... but i agree it takes balls of steel because if you wipeout or get caught in the whitewater like the video shows, the average holddown time is 45 to 120 secs, which is an eternity if you know anything about surfing...
tow in surfing is like free climbing with no safety equip... mad respect for these guys.. they live life day by day... pushing to the limits...Comment
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Sorry, but you are wrong. It's what I stated above. Cortez Bank, 100 miles off the coast of San Diego.
Here is the same clip: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu...oID=1550318890
Description: XXL Award winning wave 66 feet tall at Cortez Bank off the coast of San Diego.Comment
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What's scary is after 12 miles or so you can't see land. So imaging being 100 miles from land on a wave that big knowing sooner or later you will be treading water. Hurry up jet ski, come and get my ass!Comment
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While big wave tow-in surfing at ' jaws " is pretty extreme and takes balls of steel to do it, they have a pretty good system going with the jet-skis ready to pull them out of the impact zone in case of a fall. It's big wave surfing at it's best but it doesn't come close to the danger of surfing a break in tahiti called " Teahupoo ".
This wave breaks over a very shallow reef, sometimes even exposed, and if they fall and get drug over the reef chances are they will get cut to shreds. Watch this video and try to comprehend the shear volume of water that's moving forward at high speed, the critical position the rider has to get in to have a chance to ride the wave out and the fact that if you fall you can die.
On big days like this they tow-in with skis but on smaller days the best can paddle in. This wave is a freak of nature. Imagine your bedspread is the water surface and your mattress is the coral reef. As this huge wave approaches the reef the water sucks up into it off the reef just like if your were to pull up on your bedspread to form a peak the mattress would then become exposed. These guys HAVE to make the wave or risk being washed across the reef with all the power of the wave.
I've always wanted to go there to film the action from a boat in the channel where the waves can't reach. I need to move that up a bit on my list.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKN6vXBBowMComment
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...and that was the last time the dude was seen alive...Comment
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yep looks like brad gerlach towing in mike parsons at peahi (jaws in maui)Comment
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Yes, that was Mike Parsons, but at Cortez Bank.
http://gocalifornia.about.com/cs/sandiego/a/bigwave.htm 100 miles out of San Diego at the Cortes Bank. Here, a 17-mile underwater mountain range comes to a head 3 feet below the surface at a spot called Bishop Rock. This place has been known to ocean-going ships and fishermen for years.
The waves there signal danger on the underwater rocks and are so big they show up on radar.
To get the biggest waves at Cortes Bank, you need light winds, low tides, and big storm swells from the northwest all at the same time, a Pacific surfer's version of the "perfect storm". When it happened on January 19, 2001, California big wave riders scrambled to test their skill against the biggest, baddest wave ever ridden. These waves move so fast that surfers can't catch them by paddling, so they enlist the aid of a fearless jet skier who tows them with a rope until they are moving fast enough to catch the wave.
As if being chased by a mountain of water while being towed by a jet ski at 30-40 mph isn't scary enough, then there's the wave itself. Surfers measure waves from the back and the biggest wave of the day was 30 feet according to their measurements. But, to the watcher on the other side of the wave, Mike Parsons was riding a wave sixty feet tall, the height of a six-story building.
Parsons took home $60,000 from the Swell/XXL Biggest Wave Wins event for his ride. Santa Cruz's Ken "Skindog" Collins, who was towing with Peter Mel thinks he should get a cut just "for having to watch that wave." The same wave, after traveling over a hundred miles and reduced to a quarter of its former size, surprised surfers at San Diego's Blacks Beach three hours later. This landlubber is in awe of them all.Comment
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Well I was out surfing today and this is what the waves were like. It's OK though because my balls are made of tin foil and you won't ever see me getting towed into anything that you need to be towed into.
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holy fucking shit! that was awesome!ICQ: 150-803-430
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that's fucking crazy
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Not a tsunami, but a fucking huge wave. Saw that program tooM&A QueenComment
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That guy has some serious cojones!Danny B
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whoah that is some crazy shitComment
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in the end when he falls of his board the wave will surely float another 2 minutes to the coast.
i wonder if he can hold his breath this long
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I still remember Robby Naish who was the first guy who ride Jaws at Windsurf....Comment
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Hit the surf board, 2 tons of water behind you, lose your breath, cord rips off your ankle.... no one will find you.Comment
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He's so fortunate that he's still aliveComment
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He is crazy
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