Ian Walsh was born in 1983 in Hawaii and has been in the surf nearly ever since. He was only 16 years old when he began surfing Maui’s most reputable and frightening big wave, “Jaws.” Only a handful of years later he was nominated for the Wave of the Year at the Billabong XXL awards after successfully surfing a 70-foot wave at the legendary spot. In the time since that first nomination, Walsh has gone on to garner several accolades in the sport of big-wave surfing and has proven his mettle in locations across the globe.
Sliding down the face of a wave the size of a two-story building takes a tremendous amount of gall, but it also … More