Surfing has always had its fiercely protected local breaks. It seems localism, where resident surfers intimidate visiting surfers to discourage them from surfing “their” waves, doesn’t seem to be going anywhere.
For example, a few years back, in Streaky Bay in South Australia, a local group called the Mid West Coast Surfriders Association put a halt to a proposed Big Wave World Tour event at a relatively new big-wave spot called Yanerbie Bombie.
Since we were thinking about this incident recently, we decided to … More
Windsurfing world champion Jason Polakow has been on a search for the biggest, most gnarly waves until he found JAWS – which has shaped his life and become his sole obsession for the past 20 years.
Watch as Jason attacks the unbelievable waves on the North Shore of Hawaii.