Wanna get launched?
Yesterday, you’ll remember, or you will if you haven’t taken any unexpected slaps to the side of the face, the queer-friendly broadcaster Chris Coté‘s description of Waco’s new wave, which is called “Freak Peak.”
“It looks like one of those crazy waves you see in the Caribbean or at the Newport Wedge,” Chris said yesterday. “Two waves come together and it makes a solid eight-foot vert quarter-pipe looking thing. We didn’t even miss with it. It’s so gnarly looking. There’s a lot of punch in those waves and it’s shallow so it’s not like you’re carefree. You still have to mind yourself. Everyone we surfed with got slammed at least once. It’s not a joke. It’s powerful enough to get your juices flowing.”
Wanna see it?
(The noted LA-based pro surfer and producer Oliver Kurtz is filming; Kauai’s Sebbie Zietz is on the wave.)
Now tell me, immediate impressions and so forth…
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“The noted LA-based pro surfer and producer”… I’m going to go shoot myself in the head now
8 foot….
I’d hit it on a boog
Cote is a disgrace, the term “talk up” doesn’t come close to capturing this annoying little super hyped, sycophant, embellishment machine.
Fuck. That looks horrible. Somewhere Jamie O is booking a flight.
Okay, maybe 5 feet. But still, tell me this doesn’t look like fun,
it would look even better with E-Lo attacking the wedge on his SUP.
“Bad wedge!”
(Whacking it repeatedly with paddle)
Dear Chris,
Love your work, and I’m with you on the 540’s, but where we come from that’s a 1ft wave that jacks into a 2&1/2 ft criss-cross for less than 1 frame.
You can’t call 8ft pipeline 100 feet because a single teaspoon of whitewater got spat into the air and landed on a rising seagulls back, now can we?
It’s the Wacko backwash launch peak.
Need to increase the insurance policy for that!… the daily injury!
Would help if Gheorghe Muresan wasn’t the featured surfer – needs Keanu to show it is well overhead
Looks like a good way to hurt yourself.
Someone will land a double flip on this and won’t get credit cause it’s in a pool
I wanna see some handplants.
I mean… it’s an 8 foot vert ramp, man.
CB, its time I acknowledged your concerns regarding JB. I honestly thought he had gone surfing but I fear I may be wrong. perhaps you can persuade Chas to do some investigative journalism and find out what has happened to him. I fear he may have discovered wiggoly’s true identity and been fritzelled away somewhere.
Oi Phat, I’m the caring one. And wouldn’t he be schnitzeled away?
sorry.
Get mason, Dane & noa on this thing asap
Since he didn’t land it, that clip should never have seen the light of day.
Source: any skateboarder ever. (“you gotta respect what came before you” – some guy)
We all know Joel Tudor coined that phrase!
“I like to suck Dicks”
Yes JT coined and owns that phrase
(™)
Looks fun as fuck and Cotes’ a good sport so fuck it. It’s an OVER for me.
Oh! You meant inches, silly us! Whats a ” or a ‘ between friends.
https://video.search.yahoo….
A week or so ago on Instagram, Cote admitted he was never any good at maths, it explained so much! https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
It’s quite instructive
That he omits dollar signs
From the equation
Cote and Sherm could never find 23st in Del Mar.
Isn’t it illegal to call waves on their perceived face-height?
Like…. didn’t the Geneva Convention say something about that?
Not in Cali
That peak is 8’ and I made out with Stephanie Gilmore at the Tachi Palace.
And my donger is 12″
I can’t wait for Dan Belzarian to gorilla squat himself into that air section
Finally, a pool wave lidders gonna approve of. Get Lewy Finnegan to Texas ASAP
That Dave Ballard in your profile pic?
Well spotted. Arguably the greatest DK rider of all time. Which would be impressive if it wasn’t such a useless unconventional way to ride water craft
If I saw it at my local I’d be frothing with 50 other guys
Clips a bit long.
Too much slomo