Nathan Florence, who’d chased the swell from Hawaii, figured he was seeing a train crash up close, "I thought I'd witnessed something horrible."
A Code Red swell, as they call it, flicked the switch on Teahupoo a few days back, rides pumping adrenalin along the frail and brittle pipes of the usual coterie of big-wave surfers.
The wildest wave ridden, and filmed, was a fearsome animal that took both Tahitian Kauli Vaast, a three-time European champion, and photographer Manea Fabisch over the falls.
“This is the biggest wave I’ve ever surfed and I’ve ever seen in my life. This is also the best, craziest, scariest and beautiful footage filmed but my brother @manea.f,” Vaast wrote. “We both went over the falls !! As you can see from this angle, the wave was really hard to surf! So I did my best but went for the biggest Floater to El Rollo.”
Nathan Florence, who’d chased the swell from Hawaii, figured he was seeing a train crash up close.
“Holy sht, this angle is insane, glad you alive! watched from the side on ski live and thought id just witnessed something horrible.”
From Shane Dorian, the greatest big-wave surfer of all time, “Happy you’re ok!! Wow.”
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Can only watch if you have Instascam or fuckwitbook? Come on BG get it together
And we love them for it?
utter madness!!
Attempted suicide.
That song made me feel like I was at a basement rave in an industrial park on the outskirts of Paris high on ketamine and sweating like a pig.
Pretty sure this is from the friday 13th swell, not the recent one
Also Nathan Florence was in Bali during this swell.
Come on BG you are better than this.
Who can keep up! I’m on a whirlwind tour of Europe, timezones belching and sputtering everywhere.
Vaast
[Vaast]
ADJECTIVE
of very great extent or quantity; immense:
“a vast plain of buffalo grass”
synonyms:
huge · extensive · expansive · broad · wide · boundless · immeasurable · [more]
NOUN
archaic
an immense space.
I wonder what he was thinking when he took the high line?
Seriously wrong choice
Looks like he actually dug a rail a bit, unintentionally taking the high line.
Fuck?
High line soul arch?
Yeah – I looked at that & thought the same thing.