What special swell… I have been dreaming about what this wave might look like with a serious amount of energy since I was 10 years old. So many elements have to line up for the Freight Train and she came ALIVE! 🙏🏼🚂💨
@RedBull_Surfing
@redbull
@patagonia
@LiveMomentous
@GoPro
The Eddie Aikau! The crowd was ELECTRIC! What an experience.. Thank you to the Hawaiian Water Patrol for keeping all of our heads above water. Congrats to Luke Shepardson for the win on a monumental swell & to all the other invitees/alternates. Looking forward to the next one ⚡️
It’s amazing how much slight adjustments to body position can help you hold the line and in this case tweak my angle to avoid a decent chandelier to the neck 🧱💡🧱
The carnage that inevitably comes with positioning at Jaws! The biggest set of the day following a long lull woke everyone up and got the blood moving. The entire herd got smoked on this one putting the lungs & the leashes to the test 🧨🧨🧨
🎥 k_mak_everett
Riding the lightning trying to avoid the deathly whitewash line. Board & fins felt alarmingly comfortable and responsive on the edge of that mess ⚡️⚡️⚡️
Felt this one in the neck... Nazaré is one of the scariest places on Earth! You have to have complete faith in your jet ski driver/safety to be right there when you surface from a fall or when you kick out of a wave.
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🎥 Laurent Pujol
A very deep understanding of what 2,000+ tons of water feels like vaporizing you into the next dimension 🧱🧨🧱
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@redbull
@patagonia
@LiveMomentous
One of the strange things about big surf is you don’t seem to hear things at times. Even when a helicopter feels like might give you a haircut 🚁🚁🚁
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@redbull
@patagonia
@LiveMomentous
Sometimes you have to trust that little voice that acknowledges that you are certainly paddling straight uphill but there is a good chance you are going to beat the lip 😂 and possibly be in position to line up the second wave in the set if she moves in a touch
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@BrentBielmann