MAVERICKS SURF COMPETITION...

Alex_G

Alex_G

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I went to the mavericks big wave surf competition in nor cal today and it fucking blew my mind. I have never seen waves so big in my life, they were 35-40 feet and these guys were surfing them. And this was the smallest a Mavericks competition has ever been in the history of its competitions. If you ever get a chance to see a big wave surf competition, you definitely don't wanna miss it because there is some sick shit that goes on.
 
yeah mavericks is gnarly. i stopped there on my way down the pch last summer to check it out. it wasn't going off then, but it's a sick place. super rocky and sharky. dudes who surf that shit have balls of steel.
 
Mavericks are fucking nuts but it only goes off in like perfect conditions. I thought it was pretty far off shore, how well could u see it from shore?
 
yeah i've always wanted to see it in real life i almost did when i was in cali over the summer but then i didnt
 
that wave is so gnarly, water is sooooo cold aswell

claimed alot of lives as well, perhaps best known is marco fu from hawaii, got his leash caught in a rock and the currents were so strong he couldnt untangle it so he drowned.

top 3 gnarliest by far, cortes bank is meant to be insane, but only in the right conditions, they reckon it can produce a 100 foot wave, peehi (jaws) can be huge too, chopes aswell, i'm sure there are more unheard of waves out there.

those guys are sick tho, led by laird hamilton
 
Yeah mavs only really goes off in the wintertime. They get out to the waves by jetski, and if you don't have a jetski its a 45minute paddle out to the set.

I snuck up to the media section, where there was a fat cliff with the best view to watch the waves from, where newspapers and magazines were taking pictures. If I weren't in the media section, the view would have been shit.

Speaking of Mark Foo, I walked by his cross up on a cliff today and payed my respects to him it was pretty savage.
 
the first surfers to surf there walked out to this point where they would jump in and swim around the break to get to the line up and it would take like 3 hours (i forgot exactly how long). but your right, it wouldn't take half as long with jet skis.
 
yea when jeff clark first maverics ALONE everyday it broke he had to paddle out half a mile. he surfed alone at that gnarly wave for 15 years i couldnt imagine doing that and if he fucked up he would have been gone.
 
You could definitely tell who was hawaiian and who wasnt, because the hawaiian surfers always tried to get under the tube since a lot of spots tube in hawaii. The mavericks tubes, however, lasted for a half second and then whoever tried to get under it got owned. One of them made it and got an 8/10 i think.
 
I have the book and I've read the stories, that's insane. those waves all alone half a mile out with sharks. I mean wow. just wow.
 
as i said before it has a small barrel that lasts for a half second. you can't say it doesnt barrel at all but if you try to ride under it you are going to get pwned.
 
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