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Today on Dirty Water we introduce a new interviewer, the wildly Australian ex-pat Ben Mondy who lives, paradoxically, amid the bucolic loveliness of England.
Despite the naked skull, piggish eyes and sanctimonious voice Mondy has an every-man appears that electrifies the interior of any room.
And, as a journalist, he towers over me and Chas.
His guest is the North Carolina surfer Mason Barnes who shattered the mythical 100-foot wave barrier at Portugal’s Nazaré one month ago.
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The mathematics are simple.
Mason Barnes is 6’2” inches tall.
In his crouch on this wave he is 5’ 5” inches tall.
From crest to trough the face of this wave measures 23 units of Mason’s crouching height of 5’5” inches.
23 X 5’5” = 126.5 feet.
Wild etc.
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Only you alone can quench this Jah thirst
I haven’t see anything impressive that he is done using his arms to get into a wave.
Shoulder-hopping on a grand scale.
Wave height x music selection = -316 ft. Hawaiian.
Big wave! Is the world in agreement here? Where the lip lands is the trough correct?
So this is a rich kid who’s dad made a successful skateboard company, he is paid and able to go wherever, whenever, to train, live nice and catch bombs on the regular. Sounds fun. he seems to be well spoken and polite. Caught a bunch of notable waves. Has to take over family business at some point, will be on many 100 plus foot waves for the foreseeable future. Good on the lil buddy .
They all have some kinda story like that…”Dad was this and owned that” …very few did it on their own without that kinda backing. I’m sure he’s not complaining though.
Nurse!!
California 15ft power equals the power of 6-8 ft Island Style, give or take…IMO its just an off the cuff way to compare apples and oranges….
Are you serious about the Ha public school system. The two are so unconnected thats its absurd to even discuss it. Pretty trollish of you.
Hawaiian children can’t count? Really?
I’ll listen to it later
Why you tryna lie, Party Pete
Isn’t the west oz scale, weak six, six, solid 6?
Did he paddle or do wakeboard towing? Regardless, NonJohn could drink him under the table.
The wave correctly measured is from the back looking shoreward . It’s no where near a 100ft wave, perhaps a 100 ft face but certainly not wave.
“The most used by the surfing community around the world, the wave height is measured vertically from the trough to the crest and is known by surfers as face scale. In scientific terms and in Hawaii, local surfers use the back of the wave to measure wave height and is called Hawaiian scale or local scale.”
Back of wave measurement is a myth. You must be new to surfing…
Barrel dodger!
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