"Aircamp is getting wild around here!"
Last Tuesday, the multi-discipline surfer Kai Lenny was in Nazaré Portugal, where he competed in a local tow-in event, the Gigantes de Nazare, which also included world champion Italo Ferreira and Brazilian Lucas ‘Chumbo’ Chianca.
While strapped surfing rarely excites anymore, Kai, who says he’s been watching footage of snowboarder Travis Rice doing triple rotations off eighty-foot cliffs and says performance big-wave surfing is barely in its infancy, dropped jaws worldwide with vision of a chop-hop-to-monster-drop on a thirty-footer.
A roll-call of the world’s best surfers stacked up in his IG comments .
“Holy@shit,” wrote Gabriel Medina.
Filipe Toledo, “Brahhhh stop!!”
Nathan Florence, “Aircamp is getting wild around here!”
And, from Italo Ferreira, simply,
“Jesus.”
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AIR LENNY IS PREPARED FOR TAKE OFF AT THE TOP OF A 30ft FACE OF ANGRY OCEAN! PLEASE OBEY ABSOLUTELY NO LAWS OF GRAVITY OR LAWS SET FORTH BY SOMEONE WITH NO BALLS! PLEASE ENJOY THE CHOP AND THE HAPPYY FEELING YOU’LL GET YOU ARE STILL STANDING AT THE BOTTOM!🏄🏼♂️🌊
I get it, you are yelling. That doesn’t bother me, but why the emojis?
Isn’t the real point of this article to guess where he’ll go after Hurley? With a list of sponsors like that I’m saying Gucci.
Well he certainly ain’t taking off in the CHAN(n)EL ?
Lenny, Laird, Rodney Dangerfield.
Laird Superfood Creamer stickers will occupy the noses of his many, varied craft.
Chop hop, straps, Nazare. Really got the trifecta there.
Hopefully the chop hop was for ironic effect.
If only he could have , like Fonzie , Chop hopped , strapped in , on a chopper , over a shark at Nazare ?
Then and only then , could we call him Jesus of Nazare(th) ……
Prove to me that your no fool
Chop hop across my swimming pool …..
If he was strapped to Laird, who was strapped to a foil board, off a chopper, over a shark… etc.
yeah, but fuck!
All that might be true but come on! That shit is pretty heavy. Yeah its novelty stuff but I don’t think Kai Lenny thinks of it as anything but novelty shit. The guy fucking charges paddle in as hard as anyone. Gotta give credit when credit is due.
I think ol’ Sal had the best comment “Holy all of the shits”
Everyone underestimates the eloquence of bogan.