Biggest Wave Ever Surfed

USA Gear Action Mount Series
Whether you’re surfing, sky diving, base jumping or just riding mad dunes, we have you covered. USA Gear offers many types of action mounts that attach to different surfaces, vehicles and even your body to accommodate all types of filming and photography. Every action mount comes with a 3-Year Manufacturer’s Warranty.

Wrist Strap Positioning
The wrist strap takes your videos to another level. The strap secures your camera against your wrist like a watch or gives you the option to pivot the camera up and down to shoot video and photo. This unique wrist design ensures full use of your hands while surfing, snowboarding, climbing, driving and more! The strap is fully adjustable and even fits over jackets, gloves and additional straps.

How Does it Work?
The mount uses a comfortable stretch-fit neoprene material with 2-point connection to guarantee a secure fit. Strap it on and slide the mount in to start filming. The adjustable straps allow for full range of motion and fit wrists of all shapes and sizes. The quick-release mounts slide and lock into place easily for one step attachment and removal of your camera.

All-in-One Kit
The J hook mount allows you to connect GoPro and other Action mount style cameras. The J Hook action mount is designed for full articulation, allowing the camera to lay flat during shooting. With the additional tripod screw adapter, you can connect many compact cameras making the wrist strap a universal mounting system for both action AND point-and-shoot cameras.

Perfect For:

Surfing , Snorkeling , Climbing , Skiing , Snowboarding , Sky Diving , Hang Gliding , Parasailing , Driving , Snowmobiling , Hunting , Fishing , Wakeboarding , Military Activities and More! Wear it over jackets , gloves and additional straps.

Product Features

• The USA Gear wrist strap mount is universally compatible with action and compact cameras while you’re Surfing , Snorkeling , Climbing , Skiing , Snowboarding , Sky Diving , Hang Gliding , Parasailing and More!
• This all inclusive kit comes with a J hook action mount adapter and a ¼” tripod screw adapter
• Easily setup custom shooting angles and perspectives wherever you need that perfect shot
• The wrist strap is fully adjustable, made with stretch-fit neoprene and has a 2-point connection system to ensure a comfortable and secure fit of all shapes and sizes
• Wrist Size: 3-11 inches / Weight 2.72 ounces. Quality Guaranteed – Backed by a 3 year manufacturer’s warranty

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The promise of the El Nino winter appears to have delivered for big wave surfers, as many long-standing records are ready to fall in this year’s Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards presented by Monster Energy. And more than ever before, the Monster Paddle category (just for surfers who catch their waves without any jet ski assistance) has taken center stage as the elite of the sport refocus on this elemental man-against-the-sea tradition. Visual evidence of these landmark performances can be viewed at the event website at www.BillabongXXL.com.

While huge swells have blasted nearly every coastline of the planet in recent months, it has been the Hawaiian Islands which have had the most mind-bending proof of the power of the current El Nino weather phenomenon. December 7-8, 2009 saw one of the biggest swells in modern history batter the northern shores of the entire Hawaiian Chain, followed by another extraordinary day of outer reef waves on Christmas. From these historic moments of oceanic grandeur have come images which show several top big wave surfers paddling into what may well be the biggest waves ever caught by human power in the long history of the sport.

Among these superlative rides is a massive dark wall caught by Shane Dorian and Mark Healey which closed out the legendary Waimea Bay on Oahu on December 7. Also up for consideration is another mammoth peak at Waimea ridden by Chile’s Ramon Navarro which earned the South American hero a perfect score in the Quiksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau event on December 8. And more recently, grainy, documentary photos have arrived depicting Garrett McNamara paddling into a distant peak at Outer Log Cabins, a rarely-seen outer reef far off the North Shore shoreline, previously only the domain of tow-in surfers with jet-powered watercraft.

All are likely to figure prominently as finalists for the Monster Paddle Award to be given out at the tenth annual Billabong XXL Big Wave Awards to be held in California in late April. A panel of big wave surfing and photography experts will analyze the available images and by interpreting the known sizes of the surfers and their surfboards, calculate reliable height estimates for the face of each wave. One will emerge as the Monster Paddle winner and will receive $15,000 out of the total event purse of $130,000.

The current world record for a paddle-in wave belongs to Taylor Knox of San Diego, California who rode a wave measured at 52 feet at Todos Santos Island off of Ensenada, Mexico during the last major El Nino episode in 1998. Many experts are expecting an update to the Guinness Book of World Records once this winter’s measurements are complete.

Dorian and Healey are veterans of decades of big wave hunting and both concur that their shared ride at Waimea was easily the biggest either had ever caught. “I’d been waiting 15 years for that wave,” said Dorian, of Kona, on the Big Island. “That wave, we could see it from when it was like two or three minutes away from breaking, we could see the wave coming in, everybody’s screaming on the beach and yelling and stuff… When the wave finally came in, it was SO big. The thing was a MONSTER. We both put our heads down and started paddling and somehow we both caught it.

“I was going no matter what,” Dorian added. “And I know Mark felt the same way. It was just fun. A party wave — a wave of that size, and it was for sure the biggest wave I’ve ever paddled into, and to do it with my real good friend, it was very….memorable.”

Mark Healey has lived down the road from Waimea all his life and has been one of its most dedicated practitioners. But he’d never seen waves like this.

“That was the biggest day I’ve ever had at Waimea,” said Healey. “And that wave in particular was definitely by far bigger than anything I’ve ever caught out there, for sure.”

The wave was so large it closed out all the way across the Bay, not allowing the surfers the opportunity to kick out over the top of the wave as usual, and forcing them to straighten out and take the endless tons of whitewater on their heads. But for Healey, a renowned freediver with the ability to hold his breath for over five minutes, it was a fun experience. The longtime friends surfaced unharmed right next to each other, hooting with excitement.

“We were pretty stoked,” said Healey. “Big waves are different, there’s a lot of brotherhood involved, stuff like that. I’d rather have had Shane catch that wave than ride it alone. It was cool to share a wave like that with a friend, and someone I look up to.”

The Santa Cruz solid board short features a 21 inch out seam. Constructed out of O’Neill’s ultra-suede material for maximum comfort. This short also has quick dry properties and a comfort fly closure.

Product Features

• Striped boardshirt in ultra suede crosshatch fabrication with cargo side pocket and comfort fly with drawstring
• Embroidered and screened logos
• Outseam: 22″
• Made out of O’Neill’s ultra-suede
• Quick dry wear
• Comfort fly closure

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Specification:

Type: Swimming Finger Webbed Gloves

Material: Silicone

The advantages of using swimming hand webbed gloves:

·Speed: Swim like a frog. Swim and catch a wave faster.

·Training: Increase resistance and improve technique. Great for beginners.

·Hydro grip: Swimming webbed provides full flexibility of your hand and increases hold on slippery surfaces.

·Hydrodynamic design make it easy to use.

·Providing maximum efficiency to the user when swimming.

Package Includes:

1 Pair of Swimming Finger Webbed Gloves

Product Features

• Extra elasticity and special cut, hydrodynamic shape, reusable design
• Made of silicone, comfortable, soft, elasticity, safe
• Use Swimming Webbed for: Competitive swimming, Surfing, Body surfing, Scuba diving, Water polo, Triathlon training, Open water swimming, Water rehabilitation and therapy, etc.
• Size: S size is for childern, M size fits most women, L size fits most men
• Package Includes: 1 Pair of Swimming Finger Webbed Gloves