Biggest Wave Ever Surfed

Business Insider reports, Professional surfer Rodrigo Koxa not only snagged the World Surf League’s annual XXL Biggest Wave Award, but also set the world record for the biggest wave ever surfed.The 38 year-old Brazilian surfer rode the wave in Nazare, Portugal in November. A panel of judges from the league calculated that the wave was approximately 80 feet high. At the award show on Sunday, Koxa said, “I had an amazing dream the night before, where I was talking to myself: ‘You gotta go straight down. You gotta go straight down.’ I didn’t really know what it meant. But I figured somebody was talking to me.”
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Hawaii’s Garrett McNamara caught the 90 foot wave off the coast of Praia do Norte in Portugal

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80 ft. Surfer’s Wave – Biggest Ever Surfed Compilation

Big wave surfing is a discipline within surfing in which experienced surfers paddle into or are towed onto waves which are at least 20 feet (6.2 m) high, on surf boards known as “guns” or towboards. Sizes of the board needed to successfully surf these waves vary by the size of the wave as well as the technique the surfer uses to reach the wave. A larger, longer board allows a rider to paddle fast enough to catch the wave and has the advantage of being more stable, but it also limits maneuverability and surfing speed.

In 1992, big wave surfers such as Laird Hamilton and Darrick Doerner introduced a cross over sport called tow-in surfing. While many riders still participate in both sports, they remain very distinct activities. This type of surfing involves being towed into massive waves by jet ski, allowing for the speed needed to successfully ride. Tow in surfing also revolutionized board size, allowing surfers to trade in their unwieldy 12 ft. boards in favor of light, 7 ft boards that allowed for more speed and easier maneuverability in waves over 30 ft. By the end of the 1990s, tow in surfing allowed surfers to ride waves exceeding 50 ft.

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