It did work, and that was a great wave... weird only one guy caught it... the others were afraid perhaps?
The flag on back of the panga looked to be FIJI's ...?Ateo - 11-26-2012 at 05:55 PM
tavarua cloudbreak Fiji. Nice.willardguy - 11-26-2012 at 06:03 PM
I would kill for a wave like that!
well if it were shoulder high, a right, and kind of crumbled over instead of that barrel looking thing!landyacht318 - 11-26-2012 at 08:47 PM
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Originally posted by David K
weird only one guy caught it... the others were afraid perhaps?
This statement shows how little you understand surfing. Perhaps you would prefer to see a bunch of surfers dropping in on each other?
Just because every surfbreak in California seems to have nobody that can be bothered to respect etiquette or priority, and 10 people ride each wave,
poorly, does not mean that is the way it is supposed to be or that it is acceptable.
Crowds ruin surfing. All it takes is one person to ruin the whole vibe. Surfers go to great lengths to find a place to ride waves without having to
share it with 5 dozen greedy narcissistic 'dudes'.
Had somebody else dropped in on Reef on that wave, they would have been ostracized for the rest of their pathetic existence. The best part about
being able to watch that session go down via a live webcast, was not only the fact that the waves were phenomenal, but also that there was enough
respect among the participants that no drop ins really occurred.
A large percentage of the worlds best competing surfers were there that day for a contest. The winds were not quite right for the contest, and they
called it off. Within 30 minutes the winds shifted back to near perfect, and many of the world's best big wave riders who went there on their own
dime, had the session of a lifetime, because the contest was called off. It was epic. Had they tried to run the contest, so many of those once in a
lifetime waves would have gone unridden, instead of ridden by a big wave devotee.
Only a small handful of the 'world's best' competing surfers were out that session.monoloco - 11-26-2012 at 09:06 PM
Yeah, I kind of doubt any of those guys were "afraid" of a perfect wave.JG - 11-26-2012 at 09:37 PM
Originally posted by David K
It did work, and that was a great wave... weird only one guy caught it... the others were afraid perhaps?
The flag on back of the panga looked to be FIJI's ...?
David---------I surfed thruout the '50's and early 60's in SoCal and thought the same as you when only one person ended up on that wave-------but then
I never surfed anything even close to "that one". There were not too many surfing back in those days, especially in the '50's. Last Feb. we saw some
big waves off the northwest end of Maui being ridden by from 10 to 15 folks per wave. Love seeing it, but that many people do cause problems.
Many are "afraid" of waves as big as that one in the video, no matter how "perfect" they are, in my experience.
In any case, it was a beautiful wave.
BarryBruce R Leech - 11-26-2012 at 11:30 PM
one word WOWmonoloco - 11-27-2012 at 05:06 AM
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