Teahupo'o
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- d5ive0
I get chills every time I see that vid. Just amazing! I always feel like a puss when I get cranked on a 4-5 ft wave.
- jevad0
awesome link paul! thanks
- IRNlun60
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I almost shed a tear when Laird rode that badboy in "Riding Giants"
mxhxr10
(Aug 3 06, 11:29)thats CJ Hobgood last year during the waiting period for the teahupo'o contet... whats great about that photo is that he paddled into that one.
Some day I'll be sitting in that channel and hopefully take one.
- gramme0
CHO-poo
- jevad0
the end sequence of that vid - laird sitting on the boat, bowing his head and then staring back at the mountains - that gave me the chills..that was awesome
- gramme0
Laird Hamilton had ten children and ate nine of them, just to prove a point.
- jevad0
!!!
- pyeaton0
Anyone happen to catch the vids on surfline from the waves that were hitting Nicuagua and Costa Rica? Sick. Not quite the size of Jaws, but they were long clean lines. Nothing to maddening about em, except they were huge and needed a Tow in.
Those vids inspoired me to go to Costa Rica next winter for some beer and swell....ahhh maybe not in that order.
- jakeyj0
link?
- IRNlun60
pyeaton if you happen to find any of those vids post them. I have some friends in Costa Rica that said the outer reefs where amazing...
...hoping to go to Costa in fall. Keeping my fingers crossed.
- F_180
I get chills every time I see that vid. Just amazing! I always feel like a puss when I get cranked on a 4-5 ft wave.
d5ive
(Aug 3 06, 11:52)tell me about it. although it is funny to watch.
- k0na_an0k0
Once durning sex I slapped a fat chick on the belly and rode the 12' wave into her vagina. Crazy.
These waves are just unthinkable. Makes the ones I saw in Oahu's North Beach last year look small... and I thought those were fucking big.
- F_180
the north shore is big by anyones standards kona. what makes teahupo'o so gnarly is that on top of height, it is one of the thickest and heaviest waves on the planet. and if you watch the video closely, it breaks extremely fast.
- gramme0
...and it breaks below sea level because of how much water the wave sucks off the reef when it starts to break. Backless 18 foot waves breaking in 6 feet of water or less. Surfers have to press down hard just to keep from being sucked over the falls.
*shivers
- d5ive0
Once durning sex I slapped a fat chick on the belly and rode the 12' wave into her vagina.
k0na_an0k
(Aug 3 06, 13:17)CLASSIC!!!! What I wouldn't give to see that.
- madirish0
i have a freind there right now! sent me a crazy email saying it is just scarry how gnarly-big it is!!
- MIJA0
I have photos at home, but they are mainly of the surroundings or my wife and I being stupid.
- davey_g0
I've body-surfed there, No problem...what's all the fuss about? I guess it's a little larger and thicker slab than Mavericks, is all.
- gramme0
I've body-surfed there, No problem...what's all the fuss about? I guess it's a little larger and thicker slab than Mavericks, is all.
davey_g
(Aug 3 06, 14:26)referring to Teahupo'o? I have a really hard time believing that's possible. Guys on tow-boards can barely keep up with that wave.
*dives over the falls, realizes 'the falls' is a second story window, and 'the reef' is the asphalt in our stank alley
- davey_g0
gramme.
obviously you don't know my swimming abilities, nor my attention to detail when it comes to bullshitting.