“It’s like jumping off a big cliff and cuddling someone you love at the same damn time.”
The three-time NSSA champ and runner-up to Zeke Lau’s Ultimate Surfer, Koa Smith, has revealed he came heartbreakingly close to completing a one-minute tuberide at Skeleton Bay recently.
Twenty-seven-year-old Smith, born in Kauai and a student of Bruce and Andy Irons, is a prized fashion model as you know, but he also dominates some of the best waves in the world including, Teahupoo, Pipeline and, yeah, Namibia’s Skeleton Bay.
On a five-foot-six Disorder asym, Smith weaves and weaves and weaves.
Try and hold your breath for the entire ride. So hard!
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On my journey to my goal of getting the ONE MINUTE BARREL! This one felt close! Technically I would say I came out of the barrel around that 25 sec mark which resets the time clock!
Let the drops on the lens reflect the tears in my eyes that I did come out 🥲😂. In real time it all felt like one long blurry friggin TUBE!
So funny to see my mind trying to comprehend what just happened at the end there! It’s a feeling that words just fall short trying to explain. But if I had to try I’d say it’s like jumping off a big cliff and cuddling someone you love at the same damn time 😂!! for now… The mission for the 1 min tube continues!!!
I liked Jen See’s description of Koa when he appeared on The Ultimate Surfer,
“He is a 1950’s dad in disguise! Koa is so pumped up. He is a 1950’s dad with a coke habit in disguise.”
Some years ago I lived with a coke daddy who would shovel me bumps as we bent down in the kitchen away from children’s eyes, the little ones thrilled by their carers’ sudden burst of energies once we appeared, again, above the island bench parapet.
Won’t be watching it , saw koa talking a lot on everything everytime already
A big mouthed fella
no wankers~
Impressed that Gary Busey can go from hit-and-run to hit-and-running barrel with nary a bobble.
a mind cleansing of kind…to get the taste of your wacko buddy and that scene of Midnight Express out of my mouth.
saw her on The Carson Show last night. she hasn’t changed…and her poster is still in my stall.
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With no golf on? That’s absurd! Yuck.
Xox
One one thousand…two one thousand…three one thousand…it was damn near a minute. 57 seconds to Mars.
Weasel powder is for barnies.
Negs is getting more and more dark, can we help?
Long dredging thread the needle lefts are still must see TV.
How sick is that place? Could the WSL score a wave like that?
Wonder how much Airs would factor in? Fuckin Gabs would fit one in. Italo. No other human, but they don’t qualify for Trestles. No reef, Fil is doing 720’s back into the impossible pit. You think tubes would score? Who knows how the judges would be coached?
Weasel powder is for barnies.
fresh aire’ below. do what ur told grom~
Agreed!
Booger sugar.
Not sure how possible airs are there. There is footage on you tube filmed from across the bay I guess, looking into the barrel. Way more hollow than the front on view. I guess there are a couple slower spots but not many.
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hap, hap happy hour material…and with the proper head stupor and wavering sense of time & space…I’ll probs watch for at least one minute.
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Do you think Jared left her behind a few nights and picked her back up with the 4B in investment portfolio?
No wonder they’re distancing themselves from the big orange guy.
was it some ‘ting she said?
no masks will survive…the slaught
JaredHunterdood, TMI.
wack…by me/
From other footage I’ve seen the “disorder album surfboard” fits very nicely in and around turning the pocket of a wave. Could be the next hypo krypto.. Like to get 6’4 version…
was just about to ask if anyone picked what he was riding.
Album are doing some amazing looking asyms.
I missed the board was mentioned. Derp
Have a 6’4” disorder. fits in the pocket real well and has the rail line of a board a few inches longer. quad on the heel side and twin fin on the toes also puts your back foot in the perfect position drive the for speed and turn without having to move your foot forward or backward (which I’ve always been awful at)
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You’d be surprised to learn, I think, that Laird has one of the most robust senses of humour in the game.
I’m sure he does, and is a top bloke
Unlike the giant douche who canceled my JMD/Occys 90’s KFC couch photo on the koa sharticle…
Whatever happened to the ‘4 month free for all’ till Pipe ?
He’s obviously got the hots for her again. Can’t be anything else. Won’t hear a word against her. He’ll come right soonish – the young fellas get the fever bad, all haurangi…
sweating out til the finnish. or danish. coffee, please~
What isn’t robust about Laird, apart from superfood share price?
You look at shane dorian trying so hard to be an alpha male, flannel shirts and camo prints hunting for animals and such, and you put him next to Laird dressed in a cashmere turtleneck and he still looks like a schoolboy.
I could see that… he does go wayyy back through the who’s who 80’s and 90’s of shit talkers of our pastime.
Hey beefy – Do you feel like Bethany?
Coz I feel like Bethany …. Disappeared.
Lazy Schoolboy finger pointing “you’re fat” jokes belong at the bottom of the Ocean with Bethany’s arm.
You got more in the tank than that. BG deserves better.
Hmmpf
But, whatever…
Pretty armless jokes I reckon!
coffee addictive properties keeps us regular
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did it shiver your timbers when he shoveled you bumps? if so; true love
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No shivers, as you know, just an unworkable hose.