Biggest Wave Ever Surfed

BIGGEST WAVES ever surfed! (Including arguably the world’s LARGEST WAVE ever caught on camera film!)

We believe this big wave surfing video may well be the most extensive and complete pictorial collection of mega waves ever compiled!

From Praia do Norte, Portugal, to Jaws (Peahi) on Maui, Hawaii, and Teahupoʻo, Tahiti (as well as some other places in between) …we present some absolutely monstrous walls of water!

The music featured — called “The Maker” — was composed by PETER MCISAAC MUSIC.

Thanks for watching and listening!

If you’re at all a fan of good surfing and the Fox head, then this little four minute medley was whipped up just for your likings. Join the crew at Fox featuring Damien Hobgood, Luke Marks, Caroline Marks, Keanu Asing, Gunner Day and Nolan Rapoza as they trek through Indo with their goofyfoot battalion (sorry luke). If there was ever someone to look up to on a trip like this, it’s Damien, so you can rest assured that these youngins were well taken care of in the advice department.

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Gordo is the nickname given to Felipe Cesarano, and no matter how unflattering it may be, he doesn’t seem to mind when he’s the one surfing absolutely flawless Desert Point while we gawk behind computer screens. Here’s Gordo rubbing it in all of our faces recently in Indonesia, with the chorus to Creed’s most notorious of ballads running through the veins of his arms after every made tube. You go Gordo!

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Gabriel and the view from a safe place somewhere in Round 3. Photo: Corey Wilson

After a handful of days of sub-par surf, Round 1 of the 2015 Rip Curl Pro Portugal finally kicked off today (minus a little high-tide hissy-fit) in whatever par surf that’s between sub and ESA Regionals. Salt Creek-par perhaps? Regardless, when isn’t watching the Top 34 (plus a couple guys that you just discovered weren’t Brazilian) go toe-to-toe in punchy beachbreak not exciting? An answer: Never. It’s always exciting. And forgive me Vasco Ribeiro; thought I had ya pegged!

Sure, the day had room for improvement conditions-wise but there was also a ton of stuff that hit our palettes just right. CoughKerr’sairCough. Here’s a little Cliff’s Notes of what we might want more of, or less of, based on Day 1’s shenanigans.

Filipe, Filiping. Photo: Corey Wilson

More: Waves. Nobody likes seeing the world’s best have to grovel, and watching hawg-heavy men like Michel Bourez trying to generate speed in 2ft-slop is a sure-fire boner-killer. And John John reverting to lip-hits and floaters? No obregado.

Less: Mason Ho in a jersey. K maybe this is just MY opinion, but unless it’s Pipe, I don’t wanna see Mason trying to please judges in a contest. Not at Bells, not at Lowers, not at Portugal; shit just don’t feel right to me. Mason’s vibrations are free and groovy and naked like the Summer of ’69 and contests — Lord knows I love ‘em — have time-limits and score cards and piss-tests. I know he’s a Rip Curl wildcard, and maybe I should be thankful for that, but I’m not hearing Jimi Hendrix riffs singing from Mason’s lines out there like I do when he doesn’t have a jersey on.

Let that freedom flag fly Mase! Things looked a bit tight in Ho’s first rounder, hopefully he loosens up in Round 2. Photo: Corey Wilson

More: Josh Kerr. Kerrzy showed us today that when the ocean gives you Salt Creek-flavored lemons, ya make lemonade. Despite the day’s challenging backwash, the guy fully bottom-turned into a section to stomp a hefty frontside stale-fish reverse. Here, here, J. Kerr!

Less: Backwash. I was gonna say, “More: Clean Pulls,” but I blame this on the backwash. Today, the Peniche backwash was fucking up guy’s flow out there like a girlfriend coming home WAY too soon because she forgot her yoga mat during your Incognito Mode-time. (Warn me why dontcha!?!) The backwash led to a lot of sloppy-pulls and whitewater rafting, both of which did not help the scores.

Less: Old school fucking alley-oops. Talking to you Aritz. I know guys like John and Julian and Filipe ruin it for everyone by doing 6-foot high ones in their heats, but non-full-rotation-oops should be outlawed in this day and age. This is not a 1996 Taylor Steele part-ender; this is 2015 and landing backwards on an alley oop is not a thing anymore.

John john Florence and a proper display of alley oop-ing. Photo: Corey Wilson

More: Tubos. Preferably of the “Super” category. Indeed, a few gents like CJ Hobgood and Aritz Aranburu tucked into a couple slouchers but the tubos seemed more novelty than title-track today.

More: Scarf on Mel. Now that it’s finally gone, I just kinda miss it. -Beau Flemister

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The 2015 Rip Curl Gromsearch National Finals are LIVE right now at Upper, Trestles. The rippingest grommets in the country who have qualified through this season’s four Gromsearch stops will flock to the notorious San Clemente beach in droves. The sun will shine, horns will sound, the best under-sixteen surfing that the stripes have to offer will occur, and at the end of the day there will be crowns and checks distributed to their rightful owners. That’s right, the winners of each division will not only win themselves some cold hard cash courtesy of the Curl, but also an all expense paid trip to an undisclosed location to compete in the RCGS International Finals as part of The Search. So if you’re at all a fan of good surfing, it’s only mandatory that you check it out – whether in the flesh or on the LIVE webcast here.

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