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Our biggest swell this Summer! Mason & Michael Ho surfing Ala Moana Bowl on the South Shore of Oahu August 17 2021. Happy Birthday Ben Aipa!
Surfers: Mason Ho, Michael Ho, Mike Akima, Tosh Tudor & Greg Nakamura
My dream of surfing bigger waves took hold on a blue winter day several years ago, when I stood on a dune at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach and watched 20-foot swells peel into magnificent long walls. I was 45 years old, and I’d been surfing OB for 15 years, never venturing into anything above 10 or 12 feet, but all of a sudden I began thinking… maybe.
Before I explain why, and how it all worked out, I should clarify that nothing I’m describing qualifies as what I’d consider true big-wave surfing. I’ve seen the latter in an awful lot of movies, and with my own eyes at Maverick’s, 20 miles south of Ocean Beach, and at a break on Maui called Jaws. By some accounts, big-wave surfing doesn’t begin until the face hits … More