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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).
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.
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 ...
The son of Detroit Mercy coach Mike Davis has piled up 3,604 points during his five-year college career, 63 shy of equaling a record that previously had gone unthreatened for more than half a century.
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.
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Maya Gabeira (1987– ) (Bra) Surfed the biggest wave ever by a female at 45 feet (14 m) Sunny Garcia (1970– ) (Haw) 2000 World Champion; Yasnyiar Bonne Gea (1982– ) Indonesian surfing champion [15] Stephanie Gilmore (1988– ) (Aus) 2007 ASP World Champion; George Greenough (1941– ) (USA/Aus) 1960s kneeboard, shortboard, inventor and ...