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Billabong XXL Big Wave Award. Awarded $66,000; the highest prize ever awarded in the history of professional surfing [12] [4] 64 feet (19.5 m) Mike Parsons: Jaws beach, Peʻahi: Wave was filmed by helicopter and used as the opening scene of the 2003 film Billabong Odyssey [12] 63 feet (19.2 m) Aaron Gold Jaws beach, Peʻahi: 15 January 2016 [4]
Rodrigo Koxa was born in Jundiaí, Brazil on September 22, 1979, and began his surfing career in 1988 on the beaches of Guarujá, Brazil. [1] [2]On April 30, 2018, Koxa won the coveted Quiksilver XXL Biggest Wave prize, in the Big Wave Awards of World Surf League (WSL).
His record beat the prior world record by over a foot, [7] but the premature announcement (by others, not by McNamara) proved a source of controversy in the surf world. [8] Meanwhile, McNamara continued to search for an even larger wave. In January 2013, McNamara broke his own world record by surfing an estimated 100-foot (30 m) wave.
German surfer Sebastian Steudtner holds the title for the largest wave ever surfed with Guinness World Records and the World Surf League, after catching the 86-foot wave off at in Nazaré off the ...
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Dale Webster, known as "The Daily Wavester", is a surfer who lives in Valley Ford, California.He is best known for setting the official Guinness Book of World Records record for the "most consecutive days spent surfing" (14,641) and his appearance in Step into Liquid.
The Association of Surfing Professionals was founded in 1983 before officially becoming the World Surf League (WSL) in 2015. [17] 11 U.S. men and women now compete in the WSL. [17] In 2016, The International Olympic Committee (IOC) voted unanimously for the inclusion of surfing in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. [18]