IT'S been a while, Shipstern Bluff took a southerly shot of 15ft at 15 seconds right out of the Antarctic and threw up some bombs last week.
Pushing the unhinged performance bar a notch higher -- in order of appearance: 0:31 - Caleb Mclean, 0:45 - Danny Griffith, 0:56 - James Hollmer Cross, 1:08 - Marti Paradisis, 1:21 - Danny Griffiths, 1:35 - Sandy Ryan, 1:44 - Sandy Ryan, 1:56 - Caleb Mclean, 2:08 - Sandy Ryan, 2:16 - Danny Griffiths and 2:29 - Marti Paradisis getting the final endless wall of death.
Filmer, Dave Otto, had to work hard to get that angle. "Lots of crawling involved" he reckoned.
For new father, James Hollmer Cross, it was his first surf in five months. "Maybe got a better barrel than my XXL Ride of the Year in 2010. Surfing feels so good when you haven't been for a long time. Thank you for Shippies what an amazingly fun wave."
Ok a question,,,How long to these head cases have to hold their breath under water before they come to the surface?????(Thats if they have any breath left in them after being totally smashed by that monster)
those last four or five waves were mutant nightmares, was the tide causing the fold-overs? you think they'd stop towing in that case, as they weren't making even the nicer ones (like the final wave)...either way, I haven't cringed watching wipeouts like that in quite a while, Shippie's guys are ballsy, especially at this size
Slightly irresponsible having just had a kid!
500 years ago these guys would have loaded themselves into to Trebuchets and fired themselves into enemy territory just for sh*ts and giggles!
If I ever reached the stage where everything started going so wrong that I decided I had had enough of life, I would go and surf this wave on the basis that if I died I would have nothing to lose, and if I survived I would come out with a completely fresh perspective.
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