This double-head or double-mast high wave thing is BS. I'm just over 6' and a sailboard mast is 5m long. Double that and you've got furking big waves.

Anything bigger than me is gunna hurt if I get smashed by it.

At the ocean beaches I ride the waves that are bigger than me tend to stand up then crumble so they're not too hard to deal with.

Some of the gnarlier beach breaks have waves that suck out and go hollow. It's amazing to watch the the lip of the wave pitch over your head, just before it pile drives you to the bottom.

The vast majority of people cannot handle a wave that is more than knee to waist high.

I keep keep going back to that photo of surfingboy . That is NASTY big nuts plum coco nut size ones . One word really for you and that is respect.

damn why cant I see these pics!? All broken besides tightlines and vendevours

Plummet said..
Double head gets pretty ring puckering.

Anything above double head is pretty terrifying.....

Any head would do me at the moment.

A big wave is any wave that scares you.

Many years ago (when I was diving and not kiting) I took my 'rubber duck' (4 metre inflatable with 30hp motor) out for a spin at 'Blackfellows' surf break, near Elliston during a huge swell.

We headed into one wave, it was like driving up a big hill, seemed to be going up and up for ages on this huge green monster. As we neared the top, the top few metres started to break, we had just enough time to turn the boat around and race back down the face! Exciting stuff but we didn't stick around to try our luck a second time

I don't have any photos and wouldn't be game to try to guess the size, but this was on a day when the BOM were calling a 6 metre swell. Anyone who knows the region will have a good idea of what the break would look like in that sort of sea.

lotofwind said..

Plummet said..
Double head gets pretty ring puckering.

Anything above double head is pretty terrifying.....

Any head would do me at the moment.

Mark busy tonight Loto?

Mini Mal said..

waveslave said..




In this situation, ^^^

fly the kite back and head out to sea,

and confront the wave.

Dude that is the most sense you have ever posted.

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Thanks for the compliment, Mal.

Surfingboye, where's the shot taken? Great photo.

waveslave said..

Thanks for the compliment, Mal.

Surfingboye, where's the shot taken? Great photo.

Pics were taken by Mini Mal @ Windang, NSW.

Plummet said..

any photo's of you riding those monster waves?

Nah, not really. Not a monster but a well framed pic of the same day.


***waits for Hunter S comments... haha***

cauncy said..

wicked picture , sorry but i carnt help but laugh every time i see it , i zoom in on the kiter and wonder what hes thinking and saying to himself, cmon surfingboy tell us what you were thinking

i want my mummy?