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Riding Giants is a 2004 documentary film produced by Agi Orsi and directed and narrated by Stacy Peralta, a famous skater/surfer.The movie traces the origins of surfing and specifically focuses on the art of big wave riding.
Mavericks is a surfing location in northern California outside Pillar Point Harbor, just north of the town of Half Moon Bay at the village of Princeton-by-the-Sea.After a strong winter storm in the northern Pacific Ocean, waves can routinely crest at over 25 ft (8 m) and top out at over 60 ft (18 m).
Praia do Norte (‘North Beach’) is a beach located in Nazaré, portuguese Oeste region, which due to its giant white breaking waves is famed for its surfing conditions. . Nazaré's waves were listed on the Guinness Book of Records for the biggest waves ever surfed and have also been featured multiple times on the Billabong XXL awards in the categories of Biggest Wave and Ride of the Y
At the famous Mavericks Beach surf spot, big waves thundering into the California coastline on Thursday attracted surfers and spectators alike to the legendary break 25 miles south of San Francisco.
The Cribbar is best known for creating annual big waves, popular with experienced big wave surfers from across the world. Wave faces can be in excess of 30 ft (9.1 m). [ 2 ] The Zorba is a reef 2 miles (3.2 km) further off the coast and can create even higher waves.
At the Santa Rosa Creek overlook vista point on Moonstone Beach in Cambria, Jim Keally of Arizona captures images of big waves Thursday, Dec. 28, 2023, as the pounding ocean, carrying lots of ...
A surfer at Mavericks, one of the world's premier big wave surfing locations. Big wave surfing is a discipline within surfing in which experienced surfers paddle into, or are towed into, waves which are at least 20 feet (6.2 m) high, on surf boards known as "guns" or towboards. [1]
In February 11, 2020, Gabeira set a new Guinness World Record for the Largest wave surfed (unlimited) - female. [13] [14] It was held in WSL Nazaré Tow Surfin contest and the wave measured 22.4 m (73.5 ft). [1] [2] The wave was also the biggest wave surfed by anyone that year. [15] She is the subject of the 2022 documentary film Maya and the ...