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Largo
Sport climber
Venice, Ca
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Topic Author's Original Post - Feb 1, 2009 - 08:20pm PT
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Someone recently posted this but few ever got to see it. I can't stop watching it. It's got to be the greatest adventure sports clip I have ever seen - just one long shot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8_38LHTeDg
JL
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Thorgon
Big Wall climber
Sedro Woolley, WA
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Livin large!!!!!
Thor
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luggi
Trad climber
atwater california
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holy crap he has two of his own flotation devices in that package Batman....
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ground_up
Trad climber
mt. hood /baja
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Largo...Billabong Oddysey and Riding Giants are two of my favorite movies...and I don't even surf.
If you haven't seen these two surf films you owe it to yourself to rent them.
Ace Cool ( the guy that jumps out of the helicopter onto a wave)
visits Mt. Hood and skis the palmer most summers ...got to hang with him and hear many a tale of these maniacs. Check em out.
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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I don't know anything about surfing but that was cool.
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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"if it wasn't for climbing we'd all be surfers," YC
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rockermike
Mountain climber
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here's another good one, shitty image quality but big ass wave
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9Oplnr8WcE&feature=related
that said, from my limited experience surfing, paddling out and catching the wave is the hardest part of the sport. With tow-in and strapped boards I think much of the challenge has been eliminated. Albeit its still about the ballsiest thing a guy can do.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Thanks Johno. That is one of the most disturbing surfing clips ever and is really famous. The fact you don't actually see the entirety of the wave for so long is so creepy and ominous.
Both climbing and surfing made an insane leap forward about the same time. There don't seem to be any limits to either sport any more. The challenges are so much more horrific, so much meatier. And people are still finding waves and climbs that just are impossible to consider from any old-school view. It is amazing but it is also really terrifying to be honest.
p.
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Send
Boulder climber
Three Rivers, California
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On the big wave footage, you cant beat the unbroken chopper angle. I heard that wave was a tsunami wave.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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To hold a shot under those conditions that long and not have something go wrong makes it almost unbelieveable.
The almost perfect shot of an almost perfect ride.
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Largo
Sport climber
Venice, Ca
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 1, 2009 - 10:14pm PT
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It's one in a million that any surfer is in position to catch this particular Mother of all Waves, surfs it perfectly, that the heli pilot tracked the surfer perfectly as well, and that the shooter could ever keep one shot so superbly framed from start to finish. The framing, in particular, was incrdible, how he keeps the surfer in the lower right corner so the frame can include the entire crashing curl. Add to that a haunting sound track and IMO you've got one of the most arresting single takes in the history of flim making.
Who can ever forget watching this one?
JL
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noshoesnoshirt
climber
I don't even know anymore
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OK, here's my point of reference. You drive up to El Cap and crane your neck out the window to see the sucker. You rack up and approach and it's still the same wall you saw before. And it doesn't move much.
Juxtapose: You study from a boat for a few days (I'm grabbing at straws here surfers, please correct me if I'm an idiot), then get pulled into a huge dynamic medium that wants too eat your lunch.
Those surfers are nucking futs.
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More Air
Big Wall climber
S.L.C.
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John:
Loved your book, "The Big Drop"...must have been a fun project.
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east side underground
Trad climber
Hilton crk,ca
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tow surfing and paddle surfing are two different sports, kinda like free climbing vs aid climbing, both are cool and take the sport to new levels. I just wish the waves were as consistant as the stone.:)
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Larg, I have to agree. I want to forget your wave clip but have never been able to!
The fact that all those variables stayed doable for the film shot is really as you say one in a million. You should know, after all it’s one of your areas of expertise. The clip---- the wave---is awfully primordial. It is scarier to us than looking up at Astroman ever was.
“Send”, this is not a tsunami wave; those bitches travel across the ocean at 400-600 miles an hour and hit land fairly formless but with vast energy and at still a really high albeit lower rate of speed, not the usual 9-14 miles per hour we have with windformed, surfable waves such as this one.
Waves like this and even larger are getting surfed a lot of the time now; guys can’t help it and are constantly on the lookout for them all over the world. You will notice that the surfer was towed in by a jetski. Formerly, such waves could not have been caught by just paddling---it can’t happen. The tow-in movement really has done to surfing what some of our revised climbing methods have done for rock. Yeah More Air is right, there are two forms of the upper level sport now in surfing.
I am so glad I am 60 now. The endless loop of harder and harder stuff has ended for me and I get to be just a regular man, gee.
best p.
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luggi
Trad climber
atwater california
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Largo do you know the location..looks like Mavericks off Santa Cruz?
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dogtown
climber
Cheyenne,Wyoming
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It's 3rd reef Jaw's off Maui.
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micronut
Trad climber
fresno, ca
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Cortes Banks?
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Largo
Sport climber
Venice, Ca
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 2, 2009 - 12:29am PT
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I agree - the Tahatian bomb was the most badass wave I've ever seen, and I've produced and written for dozens of surfing shows and have seen most of the hot clips. But that Parsons shot at 3rd reef Jaws combines wonder, fear and beauty in a way all its own, IMO.
JL
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