It's all been happening the past 48 hours in the States.

Mavericks has been called ON for 8am Friday and will be telecast live at;

www.mavericksinvitational.com/

Reports from Hawaii today are calling today the biggest swell event in over 20 years on the North Shore.

Pipeline is forecast to be the below tmrw;





.....and the below video was shot on 19th at a solid size however today was apparently fairly epic....love this video just quietly !

Nice, thanks Animal.

Gutsy guys those boys.

ET.

Vanders not sure why your comment attracted a red maybe there's some super hero charger lurking the forum

Still looks a bit scary for me

Maybe it's that over the top angle but I thought that looked surfable - they were paddling rather than being ski'ied in and it was clean top to bottom with a channel either side - thinking from that footage I'd have had a crack BUT I'm sure if I were confronted with it in the flesh I'd have piked.

As for Mavericks and 40 foot Pipeline......that's just ridiculous.

Has anyone watched the interview Dave Kalama did last week with Jamie Mitchell after last weeks Belharra episode ? Really worth a listen.

http://www.swellnet.com/news/swellnet-dispatch/2014/01/17/dave-kalama-and-jamie-mitchell-talk-story-about-belharra-and-big

its moving so fast- no way guys.

some more footage - check out the inflated vests they are wearing.

#t=17

looks like some swell coming thats for real

Hectic....

I note Kelly Slater is an 'alternate' - that made me laugh.

Further note Jamie Mitchell now at Maui Airport (with Kai Lenny) heading back to cold water Cali so he may get a late guernsey as he was also on stand-by ?

Ted the Kiwi said..

supanimal said..

I note Kelly Slater is an 'alternate' - that made me laugh.

Why? He did win the Eddie a few yrs back

I find it ridiculous that he'd not be the first 'invited'......it's like not inviting someone to their own birthday party.

IMHO - he's the surfer of all surfers no question in any surf, any swell, any place.

Mavs is on

^^^^I would've had a serious stain to try to remove from my wetsuit after that.


Here's some more footage that's pretty good to watch from last years;

supanimal said..

Hectic. How's the board in the background going over the falls.

That fella must have got destroyed!

What an amazing clip. Great post Dr. Funk. I could not get over how calm he was as the wave approached him and he knew he as going to cop it. He just embraced it, kept paddling strong not aggressive and just those big breaths. Insane. If that had been me you would have seen me in hysterics, panicking and most probably crying

Jeepers Vanders that was heavy. Thanks for posting.