A "green light" for the Big Wave Invitational presented by Husqvarna.
And while we have all had our eyes pointed towards California’s desert, where the world’s most famous surfer and noted environmentalist, Kelly Slater, just declared war on one-time friend Kalani Robb and one-time neighbors CJ and Damien Hobgood, climate change has descended upon North America’s Great Lakes which just received a “green light” for its inaugural Big Wave Invitational presented by Husqvarna.
Unbelievable but true and let’s quickly turn to CNN and its lauded meteorologists for the latest.
Towering waves are forming Thursday on the Great Lakes, with swells that could reach 20 feet, CNN meteorologists said.
Huge waves already have been spotted over southern Lake Michigan, following a mass of cold air that pushed a north wind over the region, CNN meteorologist Michael Guy said.
Lake Ontario could get waves of up to 20 feet near its center, Guy said. Waves as tall as 10 feet could form on Lakes Huron and Erie, peaking on their southern shores.
More than 2 million people south of Lakes Michigan, Erie and Ontario are under lakeshore flood warnings Thursday, CNN meteorologist Dave Hennen said.
Imagine. 20 foot waves, towering 20 foot waves even, in those bodies of freshwater straddling Canada and The United States. 20 foot waves. Kelly Slater struggles to get a wave over 4 feet in his body of freshwater and could it be that God has built a better wave tank than the greatest surfer of all time?
Let’s not let our minds wander there. Let’s force them, instead, to wander over to Ben Gravy. The famous YouTuber and noted novelty wave pioneer has to be there, no? Has to be waxing his gun even as I type these words. There are absolutely zero critiques of Gravy’s ability etc. but if there was one it would be that he enjoys very little waves and can only ride very little waves.
A 20 foot novelty wave?
If Ben Gravy had one critic that one critic would bury his head in shame at the sight of the longer hair’d boy carving down a monster.
Don’t you agree?
More as the story develops.
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I admire their gumption, but lake surfing looks awful. I get an ice cream headache just watching it.
Ben Gravy is a breath of fresh air in pro surfing. That he makes a living out of surfing has to be commended, while more talented surfers with less drive and gumption are polishing up their C.V.’s!
I agree and feel he too is a saint.
I knew you were a disciple of his! It’s like you are both singing off Comrade Stalin’s hymn sheet “quantity has a quality of its own”
It’s the only way for us proudly untalented!
WSL have just dropped an edit about Rhonda Harper and her club! I’d imagine West Africa will be the next Brazil, there will be so much talented surfers coming out of there in a decade or two
I’m sure the feelings mutual … he feels he’s a saint too
I’ve always been curious about the biggest lake waves ever ridden. Not just in the Great Lakes either. What about The Great Slave and Bear Lakes way up north in Canada?
Lake Baikal in Siberia is the worlds deepest and runs north to south hosting a sizeable fetch. Lake Titicaca has a cool name and is way high up. Any others?
I spent a couple of weeks exploring Lake Garda once. Place has my respect, had a spooky vibe.
The historical objects in that lake must be mind-blowing.
It’s likely the biggest lake wave ridden is on Lake Superior. It’s the biggest freshwater lake on the planet with plenty of fetch and plenty of reefs. There’s an astonishing amount of setups there that never get surfed. Slabs, points, you name it.
I concur. Most of the pics I have seen of bigger surf out of the GL region has been here.
Let’s see some photos!
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Cool
*cold
Riki Lake is pretty big?
Critiquing Ben Gravy’s surfing would only act as a coping mechanism to help shield us from our own inability to accurately critique our own.
Careful, Charlamagne, Ben might complain that he’s under appreciated and/or being bullied… if he rides Great Lakes 20 footers, maybe he’ll win a Surfer Poll thingy, even though no one cares about them.
This raises a valid (pointless) point.
Since Surfer Mag etc are all dead, the only media vehicle worthy to host a popularity contest is…(dumb roll pleeze)
BeachGrit!!!
You KVF are the Natural Born Compère (NBC).
We can get SurfAds and ChazChazChazMcChaz to sit in the Balcony and provide harsh biting truths a la the Muppet Show.
Derek will be able to show off his best frock.
Hurluley of course will be the main sponsor.
The list of contributions from the team here is potentially World Class as you can tell by all the gratuitous capital letters I’m using.
This really needs to happen.
Make The BeachGrit Awards Great Again.