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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.
McNamara at the Web Summit 2017 in the Altice Arena, Lisbon, Portugal. Garrett "GMAC" McNamara (born August 10, 1967) is an American professional big wave surfer best known for setting the world record for largest wave ever surfed, as documented in the HBO series 100 Foot Wave. McNamara is also known for successfully negotiating a monstrous ...
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]
Nathan Florence, younger brother of two-time World Surf League champion John John Florence, caught in May 2015 what some have considered to have been the biggest wave ever successfully paddled in Teahupoʻo. [9] Keala Kennelly was the first woman to tow-surf Teahupoʻo in May 2005, getting a 10-foot barrel ahead of the Billabong Tahiti Pro ...
Maya Reis Gabeira (born April 10, 1987) is a Brazilian big wave surfer.She surfed a 22.4 m (73 ft) high wave in Nazaré, Portugal in February 2020, recorded by Guinness World Records as the biggest wave ever surfed by a woman.
This contest sees the best para surfers in the world face fierce competition for podium places. The contest will take place at California's Huntington Beach, also known as Surf City USA, between 3 ...
Banzai Pipeline. The Banzai Pipeline, or simply Pipeline or Pipe, is a surf reef break located in Hawaii, off Ehukai Beach Park in Pupukea on O'ahu 's North Shore. A reef break is an area in the ocean where waves start to break once they reach the shallows of a reef. Pipeline is known for huge waves that break in shallow water just above a ...
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 wave was recognised by judges of the Santa Monica, CA -based Big Wave ...