We’re now down to six Biggest Wave nominees, four Biggest Paddle-In contenders, and six possible Biggest Slabs from the 50-plus entries registered with organisers over the past eight months.
In just 10 days, Mark Mathews will know if he’s repeated his Biggest Wave win from 2009, or if he’s taken out the new category of Biggest Slab – or both! He’s been nominated in two divisions for a wave he rode off south-west Oz in June last year.
‘When I saw the wave coming I knew it was going to be … Details
Surf dog Ricochet’s inspirational video highlighting her journey from birth, to service dog training, to dog surfing, to surfing tandem with quadriplegic surfer, Patrick Ivison, to fundraising for charitable causes. She is currently leading a fundraiser for a six year old boy named Ian who suffered a traumatic brain injury in a horrific car accident that claimed the lives of his parents. If you’d like to help Ricochet help Ian, please go to http://www.SurfDogRicochet.com. To follow her on Facebook… search for “Surf Dog Ricochet” or copy/paste http://www.facebook.com/#/pages/Surf-… Thank you for watching, and donating to her charitable cause.Â
The sport of surfing reached new heights at Mavericks on Saturday. In the end, it wasn’t so much a contest as an elevated state of mind, a heady swirl of fear, respect and bravado among some of the best big-wave riders in the world. In the end, most everyone agreed, some history was made.Â
From the locals to the Hawaiians to seasoned men on the judges’ stand, the talk of the after-party centered around a powerful statement: These were the biggest waves ever for a paddle-surfing contest …Â Details & excellent PicturesÂ
Written by Bruce Jenkins, an excellent staff writer with the San Francisco Chronicle that I have enjoyed for years. He is a very knowledgeable surfer himself and was at the Maverick’s contest. I’m sure you will enjoy his report and the pictures.
On Saturday, a half mile out to sea off Pillar Point Harbor, Santa Cruz surfer Darryl Virostko will pursue the richest paycheck ever awarded for sliding down Everest-like walls of water.
Ending a two-year hiatus for the Mavericks Surf Contest, Virostko and his colleagues decided Thursday that conditions are right for the mainland’s premiere big-wave surfing competition. For Virostko, it will be one of the rare times he has surfed it clearheaded and sober — a seeming advantage for the three-time champion and big-wave legend.
Oddly, his newfound sobriety is likely to keep him from performing the death-defying antics that could lead to title No. 4Â …Â Details