Paddle Power At Billabong Xxl » Greg Long, Winner, Ride Of The Year

Get the Flash Player to see this video.

Greg Long's Ride Of The Year entry came during the Red Bull Big Wave Africa event on July 26th 2008 at Dungeons, an infamous location off Cape Town. Here there is no real channel and wipeout sets swinging wide are common. Of all the entries in the Ride Of The Year Category, Long’s was the only wave ridden without the assistance of a PWC (Jet-Ski). Paddling into a monster Dungeons peak and banking off the bottom into a huge tube ride, Long walked a fine line between glory and the punishing of a lifetime, before being spat out into the channel. Caught on film by Fixerfilm/RedBull BWA.


I am glad to have won this as a paddle in wave and without a PWC, because most recognized big wave surfers will tell you this is the most difficult of the two. To catch a wave on your own power is an unbelievable feeling. I am feeling great, it’s my fifth time and now it’s the big one. That is what is so amazing about this event, it brings everyone together at the end of the year. When we are out there riding waves, this is the last thing on our mind, we are out there because we love it.

Greg Long

Rate this article: 1 2 3 4 5