Man rides a Tsunami on his surfboard! (video)
 

This dude has stainless steel balls.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=AUbQtsMg0uk

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Damn..what a huge wall of water..great clip

That's fucking insane

Wowsa...

I used to dream of doing that exact thing as a kid.

Awesome to see it in action.

totally madness

crazy bastard

That's amazing...

Not a tsunami but I think that's out at sea near some submerged island where the waves are just insane like that. I saw a movie about it. It's a few hour boat ride to get out to it and they have to use the jet-Skis to take them out to catch the waves as well as retrieve them afterwards.


Definitely balls of steel!

That was really awesome!cool :thumbsup

I saw that movie about it too.
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Thats fucking wild.

Wow that dude is an idiot.. lol

that isnt a tsunami

Balls of steel, indeed. Sick camera work too. Not a tsunami though... Peahi, Maui, aka Jaws. Here's some wipe out footy from the same wave:

http://www.surfermag.com/av/tow-in/jwswpouts/

Thanks for sharing bro ... that was fucking awesome!!! :thumbsup

I think that's Laird hamilton... I never get tired of watching that...makes me go WOW...just...WOW every time. Even the whitewater looks over 10 feet. :Oh crap

I saw the same show .. they even have straps on the board to hold there feet. you can even see them in that vid. its crazy shit and the only way you can catch it is by being pulled. you could never paddle fast enough to catch it .

its not a tsunami... its "jaws" a break on the outer reefs of maui... but i agree it takes balls of steel because if you wipeout or get caught in the whitewater like the video shows, the average holddown time is 45 to 120 secs, which is an eternity if you know anything about surfing...

tow in surfing is like free climbing with no safety equip... mad respect for these guys.. they live life day by day... pushing to the limits...

Sorry, but you are wrong. It's what I stated above. Cortez Bank, 100 miles off the coast of San Diego.

Here is the same clip: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu...D=15503 18890

Description: XXL Award winning wave 66 feet tall at Cortez Bank off the coast of San Diego.

Here is another good Cortez Bank video. https://youtube.com/watch?v=mDqE9iR20O8

What's scary is after 12 miles or so you can't see land. So imaging being 100 miles from land on a wave that big knowing sooner or later you will be treading water. Hurry up jet ski, come and get my ass!

While big wave tow-in surfing at ' jaws " is pretty extreme and takes balls of steel to do it, they have a pretty good system going with the jet-skis ready to pull them out of the impact zone in case of a fall. It's big wave surfing at it's best but it doesn't come close to the danger of surfing a break in tahiti called " Teahupoo ".

This wave breaks over a very shallow reef, sometimes even exposed, and if they fall and get drug over the reef chances are they will get cut to shreds. Watch this video and try to comprehend the shear volume of water that's moving forward at high speed, the critical position the rider has to get in to have a chance to ride the wave out and the fact that if you fall you can die.

On big days like this they tow-in with skis but on smaller days the best can paddle in. This wave is a freak of nature. Imagine your bedspread is the water surface and your mattress is the coral reef. As this huge wave approaches the reef the water sucks up into it off the reef just like if your were to pull up on your bedspread to form a peak the mattress would then become exposed. These guys HAVE to make the wave or risk being washed across the reef with all the power of the wave.

I've always wanted to go there to film the action from a boat in the channel where the waves can't reach. I need to move that up a bit on my list.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=qKN6vXBBowM

...and that was the last time the dude was seen alive...

yeah teahupoo rules... the wave is so thick even when its 8-10 feet... larger is craziness..

i have never heard of that break in san diego and regardless of what has been said, it looks too much like jaws....

yeah teahupoo rules... the wave is so thick even when its 8-10 feet... larger is craziness..

i have never heard of that break in san diego and regardless of what has been said, it looks too much like jaws....

yep looks like brad gerlach towing in mike parsons at peahi (jaws in maui)

Yes, that was Mike Parsons, but at Cortez Bank.





http://gocalifornia.about.com/cs/sandiego/a/bigwave.htm 100 miles out of San Diego at the Cortes Bank. Here, a 17-mile underwater mountain range comes to a head 3 feet below the surface at a spot called Bishop Rock. This place has been known to ocean-going ships and fishermen for years.

The waves there signal danger on the underwater rocks and are so big they show up on radar.

To get the biggest waves at Cortes Bank, you need light winds, low tides, and big storm swells from the northwest all at the same time, a Pacific surfer's version of the "perfect storm". When it happened on January 19, 2001, California big wave riders scrambled to test their skill against the biggest, baddest wave ever ridden. These waves move so fast that surfers can't catch them by paddling, so they enlist the aid of a fearless jet skier who tows them with a rope until they are moving fast enough to catch the wave.

As if being chased by a mountain of water while being towed by a jet ski at 30-40 mph isn't scary enough, then there's the wave itself. Surfers measure waves from the back and the biggest wave of the day was 30 feet according to their measurements. But, to the watcher on the other side of the wave, Mike Parsons was riding a wave sixty feet tall, the height of a six-story building.

Parsons took home $60,000 from the Swell/XXL Biggest Wave Wins event for his ride. Santa Cruz's Ken "Skindog" Collins, who was towing with Peter Mel thinks he should get a cut just "for having to watch that wave." The same wave, after traveling over a hundred miles and reduced to a quarter of its former size, surprised surfers at San Diego's Blacks Beach three hours later. This landlubber is in awe of them all.

I concur.

pretty cool that wave took 3 hours to travel 100 miles and hit san diego, and went from a 66 foot wave to a little under 20'

Well I was out surfing today and this is what the waves were like. It's OK though because my balls are made of tin foil and you won't ever see me getting towed into anything that you need to be towed into.

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holy fucking shit! that was awesome!

Awesome wave, that wall of water is very intimidating.

that's fucking crazy

wow, this is crazy :thumbsup

Not a tsunami, but a fucking huge wave. Saw that program too

That guy has some serious cojones!

whoah that is some crazy shit

I need to learn how to surf. =) But maybe not on a wave like that....

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really incredible!

wow. great video ...

scary :uhoh

in the end when he falls of his board the wave will surely float another 2 minutes to the coast.


i wonder if he can hold his breath this long

I still remember Robby Naish who was the first guy who ride Jaws at Windsurf....

what a great surfer

Hit the surf board, 2 tons of water behind you, lose your breath, cord rips off your ankle.... no one will find you.

He's so fortunate that he's still alive

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He is crazy :)

Xtreme!!!