Applaud: Surfing’s rodeo clown!

Garrett McNamara never fails to entertain!

Garrett McNamara receives his share of sniggers and why not? He funny because he so so so blatantly self promotional! It used to maybe annoy but now it only thrills because who else in surfing is riding a barrel over Niagara Falls? Who else is popping out of the clown car and saying “Ta-dah!” with arms raised to the sky?

Garrett McNamara is who!

And three days ago he rode a large surfboard over Mavericks’ falls and busted his arm all up.

“It was probably one of the worst wipeouts I’ve seen on video,” Cary Smith, a Pillar Point harbormaster, told the San Jose Mercury News. “My gut reaction was, ‘Oh my. Oh my God. How’s he going to react to this?’ Seeing him take those three bounces and getting crushed by the lip of the wave was very uncomfortable to watch.”

The surf was said to be lots big and its curious they don’t run the Titans of Mavericks in conditions like these. I would ask the most handsome big wave surfer Pete Mel why they don’t except he is inexplicably banned from the event.

In any case, the Titans loss was Garrett’s gain! I mean loss!

“He had a good entry into it,” said Nic Vaughan, GMac’s partner, who watched him from the back of a jet ski, “He sort of hit a lump in the wave, and it stopped his momentum and ejected him forward. That’s a horrific fall just for the sheer size of the wave. We didn’t see a body. We thought, ‘Oh no! Oh no! Where is he?”

But you think the man who discovered Nazare goes down like that?

Garrett popped up moments later with a busted up arm but alive spirit. Later he posted this picture on Instagram

With the caption:

A million thank yous for everyone who has been sending me positive vibes. Everything went well and is put back together and doctors expect a 100% recovery. I want to send a special thank you to everyone out at Mavs who helped get to safety…

Etc.

And did you used to think G was a weird distraction? A funny sideshow? He is! But ain’t that what surfing needs more than anything else right now? Tell me you don’t want to see him surfing on the 2016 World Tour! I dare you!