Fifty-foot waves on a skimboard?
Who can be indifferent to the charms of Brad Domke, the 25-year-old skimboarder from Wabasso in Florida? The last couple of years have offered all the excitement of Brad riding his skimboard at Teahupoo, Puerto Escondido, the Right in Western Australia and, in the next few days, the most photogenic big wave in the world, Portugal’s Nazaré.
This is Brad at Teahupoo, Tahiti, in September this year.
And Puerto Escondido, Mexico, last year.
And a little tumble from The Right in Western Australia.
On Friday, Domke will strut the enormous stage of Nazaré with his tow-pal David Langer and alongside those movie stars Garrett McNamara, German Sebastian Steudtner and Brit Andrew Cotton.
Do you have awareness of the great Nazare trench in Portugal? Oh, it’s something. Five thou’ metres deep, 230 clicks long. It shovels swells into a stretch of beach whereupon mongo peaks are created.
Friday’ll be thirty or forty or fifty foot. Who knows! Who can judge such things?
Why does he do it?
It’ s a beautiful thing,” says Domke.
Footage as it happens.
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I wonder what he could do on a surfboard. Is there a reason he insists riding a skim board?
There are clips of him on surfing. I think the last one was him and JOB swapping boards in Mexico.
I watched a few. He’s good, but makes Brazilians look like Curren.
Because towing in to big waves on a surfboard ain’t gonna get you a feature on Beach Grit.
because fame and glory!
such a barney
How long is a skim-gun?
what he does is mightly impressive, but i for one am super indifferent to it