Maui hellboy describes nightmare tumble after Jaws wipeout goes viral!

"Casual whiplash."

The wipeout and kickout are two of the most beloved surfing moves to those who don’t participate in this our sport of kings. But who could forget the “Image of the Games” wherein one Gabriel Medina kicked out of a Teahupo’o wave and pointed a finger to the sky during this past summer’s Paris Olympiad? The snap raced around the world, appearing on newspaper front pages and garnering billions upon billions of views and likes and shares etc.

Very cool.

But now, and certainly cooler, we have underground Maui charger Ty Simpson-Kane wiping out on a Jaws beast and going viral himself.

The 20-year-old was out at the big wave magnet on the day of the Eddie, though according to Hawaii News Now, had no idea that he himself was about to go viral.

The sun was shining, Hawaiian honeycreepers chirping, and Simpson-Kane swinging on a bomb before cartwheeling down its face.

But how did this nightmare feel?

The young man describes for all of us, sharing, “It’s almost as if you’re doing 80 in your car on the highway and then hitting a brick wall. And when I hit the water, it knocked the wind out of me, so I was doing those cartwheels down the face of the wave with no air in my lungs.”

Once finished rag-dolling, he pulled his rip cord and shot to the surface, suffering what he described as “casual whiplash.”

Now, while most would have called it a day after taking such a beating, Simpson-Kane made his way back out into the lineup and continued to surf until he wrangled a beast and rode to completion. But how did he find the verve? “I like to just go into the darkest part of my brain and just shut everything off,” he says.

A BeachGrit commenter in the making.