Biggest Wave Ever Surfed

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Dave Mailman takes through all the latest surf news, including:

TAHITI — THE TEAHUPO’O SESSIONS
The biggest session at Teahupo’o for a while now, and many of the big names were there.

Wave of the day: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151646479310619&set=pb.219443505618.-2207520000.1368565029.&type=3&theater

The press were all there in some form or another:
Stab Mag https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151646479310619&set=pb.219443505618.-2207520000.1368565029.&type=3&theater

Surfer Magazine – http://www.surfermag.com/photos/tahiti-untamed/#5640713d68

Surfline – http://www.surfline.com/surf-news/teahupoo-returns-part-one_96130/

Whats Kelly Slater riding in Rio – http://stabmag.com/what-kelly-slaters-riding-in-rio/

Julian Wilson’s WHATCHA-MA-CALL-IT IN RIO http://www.surfersvillage.com/surfing-news/60722#.UZEleYWtU1w

As good as Albee Layer? Maybe not – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlHVUAn9Idk

Kolohe Andino gets out his pivot spin – http://stabmag.com/kolohe-andino-pivot-spin-in-rio-de-janeiro/

#TOURNOTES: RIO, GO MIGGY! – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8s2EFrGe7Y&feature=c4-overview-vl&list=PLx5ez18_HXNwW_A3X01N7wbXGk7SJ7AuV

And some nice little hotties to round it off

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Biggest and heaviest breaks around the world. Chile, Mexico, USA, Ireland, France, Portugal, South Africa, Australia, Fiji, French Polynesia, Tahiti, Hawaii.

USA
Mavericks
Mark Healey – USA

USA
Cortes Bank – Hundred miles west of San Diego
61-foot – Shawn Dollar – USA

USA
Jaws / Peahi – North shore of Maui Hawaii
Shane Dorian – USA

Mike Parson – USA

USA – Hawaii
Waimea
Shane Dorian and Mark Healey – USA

Mexico
Puerto Escondido
Mark Healey – USA


Brad Domke – USA

Shane Dorian

Mexico
Todos Santos

Chile
Punta de Lobos
Damien Hobgood – USA

Peru
Pico Alto
Grant Baker – South Africa

Portugal
Priae De Norte / Nazare
Carlos Burle – Brazil

France
Belharra
Jamie Mitchell – Australia

French Polynesia / Tahiti
Teahupoo
Nathan Fletcher – USA

Fiji
Cloudbreak
John John Florence

Ireland
Mullaghmore
Peter Conroy – Ireland

South Africa
Dungeons
Grant Baker

Australia
The Right
Brad Norris – Australia

Australia – Tasmania
Shipstern
Shipsterns Bluff

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Fear is always present in a 50-foot wave. Fear is the best way of managing the risk of paddling for a huge wave face, which doesn’t tell you what is going to happen and how it is going to break.

Monster waves tend to move quickly and force surfers to get away of the powerful whitewater. Big waves are lethal even for the most experienced extreme riders. The best big wave surf spots in the world have claimed several lives in the last decades.

Malik Joyeux, Sion Milosky, Moto Watanabe, Mark Foo, Donnie Solomon, Todd Chesser, Dickie Cross and Peter Davi have passed away in extreme surfing conditions. Wipeouts, severe coral reef injuries and drowning are the most common causes of death in big wave surfing.

The pioneers of big wave surfing started to eye impossible killer rides in the 1940’s. In the 1960’s, waves like Pipeline and Waimea increased the popularity of paddling into new wave heights. Going over the falls was the daily menu.

Laird Hamilton is the first professional big wave surfer. The waterman from Maui defies fast, hollow and high waves with a full-time training and previous preparation. Hamilton, the father of tow-in surfing, takes on the entire big wave spots of the Hawaiian Islands, in helicopter style.

Laird was born with the gene of defying danger. He designs and prepares his own surfboards and wetsuits. Wherever heavy waves break, Hamilton is there to ride them: Mavericks, Cortes Bank, Dungeons.

In 2000, Laird Hamilton surfs what is considered the heaviest wave of all time. The “Millennium Wave” was ridden in the reef of Teahupoo, in Tahiti, and set a new standard for big wave surfing.

Garrett McNamara is one of the toughest big wave challengers. After riding a spectacular 78-foot wave in Nazaré, Portugal, the Hawaiian waterman entered the Guinness World Records with the biggest wave ever surfed.

The 55 best big wave surfers of all time is an exclusive extreme surfing club. From Jaws to Mavericks, Puerto Escondido, Punta Lobos, Ghost Trees, Belharra, Shipstern Bluff and Todos Santos, these riders have set up a new scale in the definition of giant waves. They are:

Al Mennie
Andy Irons
Anthony Tashnick
Ben Wilkinson
Bob Pike
Brock Little
Buzzy Trent
Carlos Burle
Chris Bertish
Danilo Couto
Darrick Doerner Darryl Virostko
Dave Kalama
Dave Wassel
Eddie Aikau
Frank Solomon
Gabriel Villaran
Garrett McNamara
George Downing
Brad Gerlach
Gerry Lopez
Grant Twiggy Baker Grant Washburn
Greg Long
Greg Noll
Ian Walsh
Jamie Sterling
Jay Moriarty
Jeff Clark
Jeff Rowley
Jose Angel
João de Macedo
Kai Barger Keala Kennely
Ken Bradshaw
Ken Colllins
Koby Abberton
Kohl Christensen
Laird Hamilton
Laurie Towner
Mark Foo
Mark Healey
Mark Mathews
Mark Visser Maya Gabeira
Mike Parsons
Nathan Fletcher
Pat Curren
Peter Mel
Ramon Navarro
Richie Fitzgerald
Ross Clarke-Jones
Shane Dorian
Sion Milosky
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