Nazaré delivers a gem!
What would our world look like without Nazaré? Without the Portuguese chub breaking so picturesquely in front of a lighthouse? Without G-Mac’s wet dream? Well I’ll tell you. Things would predictably dull and the famous XXL Big Wave Awards would be a laughingstock. Or not a laughingstock, just ignored but today nobody can ignore because of Nazaré. Sweet Nazaré and the world-record breaking wave ridden there this winter.
It was a Brazilian man by the name of Rodrigo Koxa who conquered the first ever 80 foot wave. And can you imagine surfing a wave as tall as the Trump Soho Grand? I didn’t think I could until reading a quote from Mr. Koxa on Surfline.
I had an amazing dream the night before. Where I was talking to myself, ‘You gotta go straight down. You gotta go straight down.’ I didn’t really know what it meant. But I figured somebody was talking to me. When I got my wave, I let go of the rope, I started to use my rail to angle towards the shoulder, but then realized, if I used my rail, I’d never get deep. And then I remembered: ‘go straight down.’ When I said it, I remembered my dream. I turned and I almost fell, but then I got my feet again and went super fast. I’ve never had a big wave like that where I didn’t use the rail at all. Just went straight down. It was amazing.
I hear the same small, still voice when I surf. It whispers “go straight…” “go straight…” “go straight…use neither rail nor fin and go straight all the way.”
Heeding its clarion call, I have been privileged and honored to watch shoulders race on without me. Barrels curling empty toward the horizon. I am now happy to know that someday, maybe soon, I too will go straight into the record books.
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Harsh, but fair.
Laughingstock is one word. Well I just learnt something.
Not only Rodrigo…
Lucas Chianto, Chumbinho, has won best big wave overall performance…
This wouldn’t have ever happened if the Portuguese hadn’t eaten all the sharks.
Worlds tallest shit burger!
how’s the seagull zipping across in the foreground? Seagulls make fuckwits of us all
Yeah, ruining the perspective and everything. Or it’s one huge seagull I’d hate to have shitting on my car.
Seagulls are dicks.
Australians have sharks, europeans have seagulls.
It’s such a pity these rides aren’t shot with better filming equipment.
There must be more footage than this?
Right! Why not be setup right down in front? I feel there must be a logical explanation for always seeing the point in the foreground.
I love the POV I just wish people set up with some fuck-off lenses instead of what looks like the product of a fisher-price camera-phone.
theres been like 100 rides just like this one there at the same size
Glad I’m not the only one.
So, any kook can be King of the Straighthanders?
You can stand up!? 😉
Bigger than that wave is this question: is Tatiana really Brazilian? Just when you thought the circus couldnt be ever more stupid they go and redeem themselves with a national identity swingers club! First Kanoa, then Tatiana, who next!? Get your bets in
the olympics is making everyone crazy. i wonder how silvana feels about this particular shenanigan?
Yeah she was born there.
Can one have dual us and brazil citizenship
Good question. I think the us are a bit more lax on dual citizenship these days so possibly.
I think no restrictions on the US side. Brazil grants citizenship to anyone born there — and you can hold dual there, no problem.
I needed a break from a thing so I asked the google.
Well, to my knowledge, the first to play this game was Micro Hall, who used an irish ancestry to try to become european surfing champion. He failed, but then again, it wasn’t even for the olympics, just to become european surfing champion…
How about when Martin Potter – 89 world champ – became British…? It was when no one liked South Africans.
Right, Glenn Hall beaten!
Dooma is going to be so upset that you beat him to this comment
If that’s true, Dooma needs to re-evaluate his priorities.
He was actually born in great Britain
There’s been a time when people do like South Africans?
There is no doubt, hence the poo stance!
brazilian citizenship is easy, just publicly admit you’re scared of sharks and 6 weeks later your passport shows up in mailbox.
Also scared of waves over 6 feet
++RECORD: BRAZILIAN RIDES BIGGEST WAVE EVER!++
No chance. Getting my Brazilian visa was a pain in the ass. The nice Brazilian lady actually said that they needed proof that my company would provide airfare and enough funds for my short trip there. I felt bad but I had to tell her (while wearing a suit, no less) that I had no intention of going down there to live in a favela. What’s worse…the trip canceled and I still have a visa that I’ve never used.
Kelly will surf for the Philippines.
She misunderstood the nationality and thought it referred to her waxing style.
the rails need to breathe if you sink ’em they might drown and then where’d you be. so keep them right up there on the surface where they’re safe and go straight.
idk i might be delirious.
So, snowboarding?
Dude looks like plankton on that thing
But did the wave… break? No way in hell I’m watching that video.
Yes, it does, enough to give me nightmare for the rest of my life if I was the guy in the water.