Posted: 15 July 2008 at 1:29pm | IP Logged

everyone on this site is a kook bodyboarders discovered that wave ten years ago second of all they have been paddling into that wave on way heavier days and know when to get is at its best. also that weak tow session on surfiline was discovered by bodyboarders and there is way better footage and shots then anything i have seen on this website or in weak surfing magazines.

Posted: 29 July 2008 at 1:33pm | IP Logged

Well Goober, it would be interesting to see what a 30' at 20 sec would do at Teahupoo.  Nice clip of Flea at Mavs, that was a heavy lip throwing out quite a distance, and it landed right on the tail of Flea's board.  Was that the famous wave he was nominated for in the first XXL, the year that Parsons won it at Cortez?

That rogue set at Mavs on 100' Wed was incredible.  I never hear enough about it.  Somebody is going to get killed one of these days when it gets REAL big.  Alladio and Cahill were speeding towards the set at full throttle, or about 50mph.  The waves were rolling towards them at about 50mph also.  So their closing speed with the set was about 100mph!  But they had to slow down near the top or fly off the crest out of control.  They free-fell about 50 feet down onto the back of the first wave.

"Hitting that wave face felt exactly like hitting a steep hill climb on a motocross bike," Cahill said. "But the wave itself was moving so fast, it seemed like we were being thrown backward at the same time we were going up and up. The key was to let off on the throttle at the top. Otherwise you could overshoot right off the back of the wave and fall too far, land with too much impact way out in the next trough. You had to think about not landing nose down, or tail down, but just right."

"We free-fell for about 50 feet before we landed on the back slope of the wave," Alladio said. "And those machines weigh about 900 pounds, so I went deep, down into the water almost up to my elbows. And that was the moment when I felt a little shot of panic."

"They bobbed back up to the surface astride their machines. Remarkably, both engines were still running.  But in their brief view high up on the crest, they saw they were dealing with not one rogue wave but a set of huge swells. And the next one was even larger. Their desperate exercise began all over again, zigging and zagging on a parallel course, trying to keep near each other while finding a place they could make it over the top before the lip could pitch over their heads and swallow them."