I’ve surfed some big ish waves but this is hard to get my head around

[video]http://vimeo.com/34941680[/video]

Dunno what ur talking about, my local break is like that every sunday………….

I wish!

The lip is insane. Not a chance you’d catch me anywhere near that.

I like the comment that “The French Navy labeled this day a double code red prohibiting and threatening to arrest anyone that entered the water”

That is simply beautiful.

How in gods name do you survive one of those piling on top of you 😯 😯 😯

thats lovely that, make me wonder why i’ve not been in the sea for a year!

Amazing!

I wish they would put in one wave in at normal speed with sound in at the end, showing how fast and loud it really is.

Awesome.

M83 fits perfectly as a soundtrack.

what chakaping said.

One of the greatest things I’ve ever seen

Looks good but as said above, needs to be shown at full speed and with good sound. Nothing like a thundering wave hammering at you to make you feel small

The hand at 7:02…

Astonishing stuff.

I’ll throw ‘that’ sequence into the thread for anyone loading up on epic surf action.

[video]http://vimeo.com/18642151[/video]

Crikey. Can’t quite get my head around the perspective, esp when there’s some blokes in a small boat just casually watching in the forground. Impressive stuff.

Teahupoo’s got nothing on The Right, or Cyclops for that matter.

^ ‘that’ wave at Jaws is incredible…

awesome is the right word.

I don’t know anything about waves but in the first video, the shape of the wave looks really different, as if there is a ‘heavier’ body of water, or perhaps that’s a greater mass of water, being pulled up into the wave. The lip looks like it starts to collapse behind the leading edge because of the weight.

It looks incredible.

terrifyingly awesome…………. 8)

i like watching the wipe outs…. ouch.

EPIC!

‘Teahupoo’ in the first vid is a bit of a one-off. See Wikipedia

any other link to the first vid?

http://video.mpora.com/watch/5Pgs2slxu/

Not the same vid but it gives you an idea:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RXGY9KDifU&feature=related[/video]

Seems to have been a good year for insane big wave riding with both Cloudbreak and Shipsterns Bluff really going off:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40mQdxq0SUk[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH_SI3nseYM&feature=relmfu[/video]

Love the Shipsterns vid. That break has an extra dimension i.e. @ 2:35. Mental just like the Tasmanians.

That Shipsterns wave looks like the nastiest, dirtiest reef break I’ve ever seen. I’d rather stick wasps up my arse than go play with that.

‘Teahupoo’ in the first vid is a bit of a one-off. See Wikipedia

Fascinating. So the term ‘heavy’ was right then.

Just watched the Shiptons video. Oh good lord that is scary s**t. What is it that causes the wave to break in multiple places along its front face?

I think its the shape of the reef underneath and in front of the wave that contributes towards its shape. The US navy have done loads of mapping of the topography of the seabed at Mavericks and they now now why it’s as big and bad tempered as it is.

Oh my God.

Just watched the original clip (on mpora:) http://video.mpora.com/watch/5Pgs2slxu/hd

My exclamation of ‘Holy ****!’ got the rest of the office’s attention! 😳

I’ve watched plenty of surfing clips/vids over the years, of ‘Chopes’ too ( as dudes like me call it 😉 )but that has raised the bar.

Yeah Shipstern’s is seriously heavy but it is never gonna win a beauty contest.

I’ve watched plenty of surfing clips/vids over the years, of ‘Chopes’ too ( as dudes like me call it )but that has raised the bar.

i was talking to a mate about this last night.

the question came up of would you go on a wave like that if there wasn’t a chance in hell of making it. 1 in 10? maybe, but absolute certainty of a beating that has a high chance of killing you? not a mentality I can understand.

the view that last guy had must have been mental…

I am surprised that they don’t wear some kind of mimi breathing system, but i guess it would get washed off and its not exactly the surfy image!

I believe they train by running along the sea bed holding rocks, to get the lung capacity up!

Anyone know what the music is playing in the background to the Shipsterns clip?

ta

Are they supposed to fall off?

Holy nards

I wondered what surf matt had been up to since he left the forum

I say better to be on the beach wishing you were out there than to be out there wishing you were on the beach.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbSO2DtAs1k&feature=related[/video]

Only a surfer knows…