RIDING GIANTS

...in an abstract way. What with the whole "land-locked Midwesterner" thing and all.

i'm not sure if he's in either of those movies (i kinda doubt it), but he has Riding Giants playing in the office to entertain those waiting to see him.

towed in = lame

i can't tell from those photos if he was towed in. i don't see any jet ski in that first photo. also, why is it lame? could you surf those waves w/o it?

man, all towing in is getting a ride to the party. nothing wrong with that.

that thing in the movie about mavericks being like the grand canyon is pretty otm.

The doctor in 'riding giants' (a pretty cool fick btw...especially the old 60's footage) was probably Dr. Mark Renneker, kind of a big-shot on the no-cal big-wave scene.

I've towed into pretty big surf (at todos santos), stuff that I'd have no chance of paddling into and making the drop, and given a 4 or 5 months to practice, I would tow into that wave. I'd never paddle into it though. It's really on a total other level of difficulty.

http://www.surfline.com/surfaz/images/curren_tom/jh_tcurren3_h.jpg

That is the quintessential surf pic for me. Like I said, given a few months of practice (and the will to do it...) I could pull off tow-ins at mavericks. Given a few years (and the balls) I could paddle in at mavericks.Given a few years of concerted practice (and the balls to do it), pretty much anybody could surf big waves. On the other hand, I could surf for hours and hours every day of my life and never ever do a cutback as clean and graceful as that one.

we know

ADAM, VAHID, JESS, WHAT SONG IS THIS?

Cortez Bank Youtube = amazing

adam, you deserve it after all the backpacker jokes

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/05/BAABTOFIF.DTL

A surfer stands by the covered body of Peter Davi, 45, a lifelong Monterey and Santa Cruz boarder who was killed while out among the huge waves of Ghost Trees near Pebble Beach on Monday

trying to surf 65 foot waves?!?

note to self:

IF (surf in ft) > (my age) THEN do not surf

http://www.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2007/12/05/mn_big_wave_death_camon105.jpg

damn son

http://www.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2007/12/05/mn_big_wave_death_camon101.jpg

here's the pic that matches that caption

"a surfer" = hasselhoff?!?

http://www.latimes.com/videobeta/watch/?watch=2ad04f17-e337-4bd2-bedc-a4b49b8884ba

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/09/the-eddie-hawaii-big-wave_n_385488.html

my brother just flew out to hawaii on friday to go surfing. dunno what island he went to though

sup
http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=5859599332847563504

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/03/17/BADN1IDO44.DTL&tsp=1

"He went down the face of the wave. He made a bottom turn and he totally made the wave, but the water caught up to him and it just kind of engulfed him and raced him down," said the surfer, who did not wish to be identified because he had taken the day off from work but did tell his employers that he would be surfing.

Pretty fucked up for his wife and kids.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgQ5BJTSv9U&feature=related

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