Hawaiian redefines possibilities at two-foot Huntington Beach…
Necessity is the mother of invention, as they say. And Seth Moniz, whose name has been in lights since his back-flip at Waco in May, just got everyone harder than honeymoon dick with a backside jump in his round five heat at HB.
Hawaiian-born Seth, the twenty-year-old son of the photogenic former pro Tony Moniz, took his heat with Evan Geiselman into the cosmos with a backside jump that looked like a kiteboarder getting hung in the wind.
“He’s on! He’s on! He’s on!” said the commentator Peter Mel.
“That was… that was some superhero stuff right there,” said Strider Wasilewski.
“It was…that…inverted. I don’t know…” said the pro-in-booth Dion Atkinson, trailing off.
“That’s a ten in my book and if they don’t give him one they can throw ’em out of the judging booth because this was ridiculous,” said Strider. “He was superman!”
The wave scored a 9.87. Two judges threw tens. Two scored it a 9:80 and one unimpressed son of a bitch gave it a nine-and-a-half.
Watch here (it comes in around the 1:24:24)
