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Jul 18, 2006 8:56 AM
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Any one interested in biggest wave surfing? Billabong and Monster Energy give awards for the biggest wave surfed each season, which runs from the beginning of April to the end of March of the following year. I would appreciate anyone with knowledge on this subject joining the discussion, or anyone interested is welcome too.
The current biggest wave ever surfed is generally agreed to be Ken Bradshaw at Outer Log Cabins (south of Pipeline) on the island of Oahu on 1-28-98 at approximately 11:30 am. No photographer captured the ride but there is some video footage shot from shore, but the whole wave is partially hidden from view. Since it was easily the biggest wave surfed that day, and Log Cabins probably received that northwest swell more directly than Jaws on Maui, and it was the biggest swell in recent memory, that wave receives honors as biggest wave ever surfed. How big? They estimate it as 80 feet, and some say 85 feet.
The official record since the billabong XXL awards started in 2000, which now grants $60,000 to the rider of the biggest wave of the season, plus an additional $1,000 per foot for every foot taller than 60 feet, is Pete Cabrinha, at Jaws Maui, on 1-10-04, on a wave judged to be 70 feet tall.
This year Brad Gerlach was awarded $68,000 for his wave at Todos Santos Island, off the coast of Mexico, just south of the US boarder, on 12-21-05, for his 68 foot wave.
Laird Hamilton is not officially recognized with any biggest-wave surfing records. Since Laird doesn't believe in contests he requested his wave that was nominated for the 2004 XXL Biggest Wave award REMOVED from contention. Some people think his wave that day at Jaws, Maui, on 1-10-04, was the biggest of the year. Pete Cabrinha won with his wave that day judged to be 70 feet tall, so was Laird's wave even taller? In an interview Laird was recorded as claiming that his tallest wave ever surfed was "in excess of 80 feet". Was he referring to his wave at Jaws on 1-10-04?
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Oct 1, 2006 4:30 PM
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Airbrush,
I've only caught one wave bigger than 10 feet so its hard to imagine the power generated by the really big ones. I've heard of surfers at the Jaws riding over 70 but the reports are unsubstantiated. Anyway you look at it surfing is a great sport. Yuri
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May 8, 2007 1:05 PM
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The thing about big waves is the fact the bigger the wave is the FASTER it is moving and the VOLUME of water goes up cubed. So theoretically, a 10 foot wave contains 8 times the volume of water of a 5 foot wave.
Last year the official biggest wave surfed was 65 feet tall, Greg Long at a break in South Africa called Dungeons. Every year somebody successfully rides a wave taller than 60 feet high. Check this out:
http://xxl.billabong.com/
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May 23, 2007 11:09 AM
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Airbrush
I wonder what the biggest wave was that Corky Carroll ever rode??? I visited ireland last year on R & R and surfing is getting big there albeit with smaller waves. Yuri
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May 24, 2007 3:56 PM
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Hi Yuri,
Funny that nobody around here seems to care about surfing, not even biggest wave surfing. Oh well it's my favorite sport. I'm 52 and since I had a couple injuries (back and knee) it has become a struggle to make the take off now. But I keep trying a few times each year. How often do you get to surf?
In the 1970s Corky and the other Hawaiians occasionally rode waves in the 30-foot-plus face range, at Waimea, Sunset, Pipeline, whenever a big swell hit the north shore.
Yeah Ireland has quite a lot of surf. Somebody tow surfed a wave there over 50 feet high last year!! Check this out:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6FeSQ_hXOsg
John
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May 25, 2007 7:16 AM
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John
I only get wet a couple times a year...I've been in Afghanistan and now I'm in Wyoming for the summer...neither place has surf!!! I'll check out the link.....I live in Virginia Beach. We get intermittant good waves..nothing consistent though. Yuri
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