Archive for the ‘Hawaii – Jaws, Maui ; Pipeline’ Category

Tuesday Night Surf Update below following this awesome video, By the way, check out the Swell Period chart I added below for Friday morning at 6 AM. Very powerful, very uniform period, and you can see the fetch (width of distance wind travels over water to create swell) of the swell is as wide as [...]

Billabong XXL Big Wave Awards Nominees 2012 Video plus Lazy Update Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 PM  , Thursday may have some leftovers, but the offshore winds are blowing west out at the 120, so I wouldn’t count on much Thursday morning.  It shows a 1.5 foot ground swell which I have seen a swell that [...]

Short Surf Report below…the focus now is big wave video, my drug of choice I had better be seeing one of you Johnson Avenue (and nearby streets ,  Surfers asking Kelly Slater for the next steps you need to take to put yourself in places of Billabong XXL Surf locations.  Not everyone or anyone is [...]

This is my 2nd favorite Big Wave video.  The sounds that go with this 1 plus minute video, and watching the footage they get from the back of the wave heading towards shore.  The back is like 25 to 35 foot back, so you can imagine the front. This one called “Passing the Torch” in [...]

My addiction of big wave footage continues…Another XXL contender video, of Shane Dorian, a very familiar participant in the Billabong XXL awards of recent years.  This was a massive perhaps 45 to 50 foot  paddle in wave at Peahi on 3/15/11.  He almost made it out of the barrell SURF REPORT TIME: Okay, now to [...]

The biggest wave ever ridden captured on film, by Ken Bradshaw, January 28, 1998.  Estimated 85 foot face wave. oldwaverider