Your plus-sized dreams are about to come true!
Have you ever fantasized about entering a big wave contest? Maybe it’s late at night and you’ve had many drinks/much cocaine and you think, “You know what? I could do it. I could totally enter Maverick’s/Jaws/The Eddie/Belharra etc. I can paddle, I can go straight and I ain’t afraid of nothing.” Maybe it’s midday and you happen to catch a round of Nazaré action at your local pizza place and you think, “Look at that mushburger. I could take it.”
But let’s be honest. You and I are not really cut out for big wave surfing. We can’t hold our breaths very long and our shoulders pop out of socket when we try and paddle with force. Am I right? Well I was right until this very moment and all thanks to Florida.
The Sunshine State is proudly hosting the Salt Life Food Shack Florida Big Wave Challenge and we’ve got a shot!
The rules are simple per the contest website.
Challenge Dates: July 15 – November 1, 2018
Participants must Register to win.
Teams consist of one surfer and one photographer.
Winners will be announced at the Awards Party at Salt Life Food Shack in Jacksonville Beach, FL on November 18, 2017. Must be present to win.
Got that? So you just have to go bag a sick wave in Florida this coming summer/autumn and get the shot to prove it. I think good. I think we could win. I think next time it’s late at night and you’ve had many drinks/much cocaine you could tell everyone that you are a big wave champion and everyone will be impressed.
They had a contest like this in Nj years ago, and surprisingly enough the winning wave wasn’t that lame.
I rode a wave once…
I’m not saying that Florida is a world class big wave spot but I have been humbled there. If you are not used to paddling out at a beach break with double overhead waves and 30 mph onshore winds it can be daunting.
I have surfed huge waves for almost 20 years and I could totally charge it, but really? Not really, last two sessions at jaws ended with me breaking my leash and getting dropped off on the rocks on ski. So, no.
No serious, wonder what is the biggest wave ridden, of some legitimate record, in the state of Florida?
Matt? Volland?
Volland has smoked a cone of silence. Where are you man?
Yes, you too can win a “big wave challenge ” on a 6’1″ (props to Captain Clark, that was as big as it gets in La Florida..I’m guessing big RC’s or Reef Road)
Due to personal financial constraints, I’m insisting that the Salt Life Food Shack Florida Big Wave Challenge be held in Mexico. Only then will I be capable of participating.
Did anyone see the final day of the Nazare comp? I would have entered that! They should have been riding 6’0″s ….
Do I get credit for drowning?
What’s the extra score for being resuscitated?
You win a Red Bull sponsorship!
Doesn’t that preclude me from being a WSL darling?
I’ve already told heaps of people I’m a big wave champion. Can I still enter?
Hell no! You need to stay undefeated.
OOOOOOH! An Undefeated Big Wave champion!
This guy is definitely going to win it! https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
If there aren’t naked porn stars involved I ain’t interested.
The rules make absolutely no specifications for what you choose to surf on.
As long as I don’t practice by trying to throw them in the pool, right?
I won in 2017! Providing we have an active hurricane season I could repeat!
Did you really?
Heck no! But it sure sounded good to me. I was merely making jest that the date has already passed that’s in the write up. Good luck with the surgery!
I don’t want to smoke meth though so I’m out.
But entering would mean I had to go to Florida. I’ll talk to my sponsors (Hang Ten, Colchester Rubber Co., the German East Africa Company, and EOS) to get me over there. Also, the winners were already announced? Rigged!
Get there and I will buy you an eight piece Publix fried chicken.
It’ll be your personal epiphany.