Oliver found this for ya
http://www.coastalwatch.com/news/article.aspx?articleId=8742&display=0&cateId=3&#ooid=cyazRjMjpIIiK8xWopyI7LfM3D08jYJ8was trying to locate the footage they showed on the news this evening of a certain Mr Slater 10* out there getting some sick pits but so far I have lucked out.
Regular Solander slab merchant Mark Mathews had no hesitation in calling Wednesday March 23, 2011 the best day at Ours since June '07. According to Mark, "Tuesday was bigger with six-to-eight foot sets and even the odd bomb jacking up to ten feet but Wednesday was so perfect and clean and it was still a solid six foot with the odd eight foot bomb set."
The other factors that made Wednesday such a standout session were of course the perfect straight offshore westerly wind and the 10 - 11 second period easterly swell that at times even seemed to have a hint of east-south-east in it - the perfect direction for Ours.
A world class crew of chargers were all over it. Maroubra boys Mathews, Evan Faulks, Jesse Pollock, Lucas "Boo" Street and Richie Vass to name a few were dominating as usual. Richie deserves special mention because he charged with a dislocated elbow. Bones from Bronte was getting barrelled off his head, Cronulla's Kirk Flintoff was charging, Sammy Mac from Bondi. the list goes on. Add heavyweight pros like the Gaduaskas brothers, Dylan Graves from Puerto Rico and Taj and King Kelly and you have an all-star cast charging one of the thickest, heaviest waves for its size in the world.
Mark surfed for six hours straight in the morning and then paddled back out for the glassy late arvo session with Kelly and Taj. Word somehow spread like wildfire that the King was charging caverns out at The Cape, so it wasn't long before the crowd on the rocks and in the carpark swelled into the hundreds.
Everyone in attendance was blown away by the calm, clean, controlled display of tube riding put on by the King, Taj and all the crew of committed cave dwellers. Coastalwatch's Tim Bonython was on the spot to capture the session for web surfers.
Read more:
www.coastalwatch.com/news/article.aspx?articleId=8742&display=0&cateId=3&#ixzz1HbfRRMRK
It happened on a wave coming in trying to keep the board straight , had the paddle behind me in the wave face , rib cage stretched to the max , and it just went. It really sucks not being in the water its the only thing that keeps me sane
, lucky it was not 2 inches of your nose by the sound of it. It is good to hear someone is getting a bit.
great photos btw
