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12-08-2009, 09:32 AM
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12-08-2009, 10:42 AM
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12-08-2009, 11:08 AM
| | | Is that that the place where they pull the surfers out to the waves on Jet Skis?
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12-08-2009, 11:18 AM
| | The Lowdown Diggler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by RWP  Is that that the place where they pull the surfers out to the waves on Jet Skis?
Those dudes are CRAZY! | Yep. And the above pic is Waimea Bay. The Eddie Aikai memorial surf contest is held there. It's a contest that they only hold when the surf reaches a Hawaiian 20 feet (about 40 foot faces). They haven't held the contest in 5 years. Looks like it's going to go this year.
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12-08-2009, 11:29 AM
| | | | How many surfers have been lost there? I can't imagine the fitness level those guys would need to just to survive a wipe out. And what about injuries they can sustain from being smashed into submerged coral? |
12-08-2009, 11:33 AM
| | The Lowdown Diggler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by RWP How many surfers have been lost there? I can't imagine the fitness level those guys would need to just to survive a wipe out. And what about injuries they can sustain from being smashed into submerged coral? | These guys are insane watermen. Injuries include broken rips, torn mcl's, punctured lungs, and death. Most common injury is probably ear drum damage. Imagine going from the surface to 40 feet underwater in the blink of an eye. |
12-08-2009, 11:55 AM
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12-08-2009, 04:30 PM
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Beta Tester: Source Audio. Hacker: Heavy Drone FX | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Spokane, WA. | | | What does it take to get out there,...I mean are the non locals watching conditions and on a plane as soon as they hear that swells are higher than usual? Do the swells last for a long time (a few days,...a week)? |
12-08-2009, 04:40 PM
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Originally Posted by warwick.hoy What does it take to get out there,...I mean are the non locals watching conditions and on a plane as soon as they hear that swells are higher than usual? Do the swells last for a long time (a few days,...a week)? | Yeah there are guys waiting to go. Swells can last anywhere from a couple of days to three weeks if you get several storms lined up behind each other. |
12-08-2009, 04:44 PM
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12-08-2009, 05:52 PM
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Originally Posted by warwick.hoy What does it take to get out there,...I mean are the non locals watching conditions and on a plane as soon as they hear that swells are higher than usual? Do the swells last for a long time (a few days,...a week)? | A friend of mine left for Oahu today, but he was planning on going this week anyhow. He'll prolly have to wait a few days for it to calm down some. Big waves are plenty scary enough on their own, but over there you also have massive reefs everywhere that take away the "it's only water" mantra.
Anyhow, you can predict swell and wind conditions several days out pretty well these days, especially when you're talking wave trains a thousand+ miles long. A few of my friends were surfing at the OR coast today, which is also firing exceptionally hard at the moment. |
12-08-2009, 07:04 PM
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12-08-2009, 08:24 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | | Great photos Maki! Here's a video, not of surfing, but it shows the awesome power of the ocean: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNpH5...eature=related
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12-09-2009, 08:54 AM
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Originally Posted by MakiSupaStar | Do you think you could ride those ? Not busting your balls here, but I would imagine that it would take way above average talent to stay alive in waves like that.
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12-09-2009, 12:48 PM
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12-09-2009, 04:59 PM
| | The Lowdown Diggler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Passinwind A friend of mine left for Oahu today, but he was planning on going this week anyhow. He'll prolly have to wait a few days for it to calm down some. Big waves are plenty scary enough on their own, but over there you also have massive reefs everywhere that take away the "it's only water" mantra.
Anyhow, you can predict swell and wind conditions several days out pretty well these days, especially when you're talking wave trains a thousand+ miles long. A few of my friends were surfing at the OR coast today, which is also firing exceptionally hard at the moment. | Yep this swell is starting to show right now. I'm taking the day off work tomorrow to go hit Sunset Cliffs in San Diego. Quote:
Originally Posted by buzzbass Do you think you could ride those ? Not busting your balls here, but I would imagine that it would take way above average talent to stay alive in waves like that. | If I had a 8'4" - 9'0" gun I'd paddle out. That crowd is pretty thick though. Not sure I would get very many waves. North Shore crowds are some of the heaviest in the business. Personally, I'd be more into surfing Jocko's or Chuns a little south of Waimea, or perhaps Sunset a little North of here. All are longer, more workable waves. The biggest waves I've ever surfed were probably a good 5-8 feet smaller than these waves. I've surfed easy 15ft waves at Blacks Beach in San Diego, and waves that were even bigger at Silver Strand in Oxnard. The waves were so big the repercussions when the waves broke were making the sand audibly shake. |
12-09-2009, 05:02 PM
|  | no really, smokemeth&hailsatan | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pueblo, CO | | | Man, my parents are in Hawaii this week to. I'll have to ask them how the waves were. |
12-09-2009, 05:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Joe Gress Man, my parents are in Hawaii this week to. I'll have to ask them how the waves were. | What a jip! They didn't drag their beloved Joe along for the trip? |
12-09-2009, 05:09 PM
| | no really, smokemeth&hailsatan | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pueblo, CO | | Quote:
Originally Posted by MakiSupaStar What a jip! They didn't drag their beloved Joe along for the trip? | The day pigs fly to the moon and back maybe. My dad's job takes him all over the world, and one of the places he gets to go every 3-4 years happens to be Hawaii. Since my dad does travel so much, he has tons of airline and hotel points that he gets to use. So my mom gets to tag along while he works all day. My mom gets to sit on the beach all day, so she doesn't mind it. The last two or three days my dad will join her.
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12-09-2009, 05:37 PM
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Originally Posted by MakiSupaStar If I had a 8'4" - 9'0" gun I'd paddle out. | Some years ago, I was given a 8' 2" Lightning Bolt pintail gun shaped and signed by Gerry himself. I tried it a few times when I lived up in the Bay (Steamers, if it wasn't too crowded, or Pleasure Point when Steamers was a zoo) and just didn't feel all that comfy on it, and I'm used to longboards (8' 4" Yater spoon, 7' 9" unknown-shaper twin-fin). I've been told that boards like these are wonderful for the North Shore and basically useless everywhere else...
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