Justine Dupont has a swing at world's biggest shorebreak…
There’s two things we can safely agree on. First, getting towed into a big wave ain’t hard. If you can stand, and you got a ski, you can ride twenty-foot waves. Second, getting towed into a twenty-foot wave when you’re not ready can be an easy way of getting dissolved.
In this compelling short, we see the French surfer Justin Dupont, who is rated twelfth on the women’s qualifying series, towed into thirty-foot waves at the Portuguese shorebreak called Nazaré. It mightn’t be hollow, but all that juice will tear your head off and crush your lungs. A few years ago I’d interviewed Maya Gabeira the day after she’d been brought back to life via CPR after a wipeout there that also broke her leg.
“It hit me on my chest and it blew out my life jacket and it really hurt me. I went down, down, down underwater with no air and seeing black,” said Maya.
When I had talked about Nazaré being all big-wave schmaltz, Shane Dorian had told me: “It’s super dangerous… it’s chaotic… the water’s really angry.”
He ain’t lying.
Watch!
I don’t want to be a cunt but what exactly am I looking at here.
I saw a shoulder hopper early on the vid. Brave for being out there but it was a massive shoulder hop.
Then I saw a failed tow in???? A surfer going left maybe taken by the lip but looked like they got spat out the back.
Then a ski racing racing a wave which when it came into view already had a person on the sled.
All power to her for taking a ski ride out the back but did she shoulder hop or was she the second surfer?
Or was she bot and it was to slick an edit for my tired eyes?
Beautiful big lovely shaped wave though. Full disclosure. I would not be surfing it so good on whoever whatever I saw no matter what it was or wasn’t, They got bigger balls than me.
She shoulda stuck to ironing.
Ooo yeah baby
Liquid Misogyny.
Hillary Clinton, meet Trump.
I was beginning to think there was some elusive Irons kid out there we didn’t know existed who liked outing French girls. That Nazare Irons kid sure doesn’t play well with others.