My GOD!! Man versus beast. I have never been on a surfboard in my life but I love to watch this. I honestly don't know why. I was always a horse person. But this just amazes me. And I love it when they get through it!!! I want to cheer!
I lived right above Maverick (long before it was called Mavericks or Mavz!) and for about 30 years, I used to walk to the cliff right above the area and watch them surf the wave. The height of the wave has been highly exaggerated, it is usually about 20+' but if there is a storm out at sea, it can get up to almost twice that height, but that's rare. It MAY be that due to icebergs melting in the north, that the volume of water has increased some in our oceans, in the last few years with warmer global temps, but from trough to crest, Maverick is reaching to even be a 60 footer. The danger in surfing that wave lies with the rocky bottom and cliff where the wave breaks. That can be dangerous water if you get get pushed to the bottom. I went out on a boat with a friend from Pillar Point Harbor to help search for Mark Foo two days before Christmas in 1994, but we did not find him; they recovered him two days later. The water had been high for about a week when the news broke that it was pushing heights and people started coming from all over to surf, including Foo who jetted over from Hawaii. The water from the crash of the wave can push right up into the cliff and spray clear up on top where I was sitting when there had been a storm at sea, increasing the water volume. I moved from the area in 1998, but they had lost another surfer there the year before, and probably have lost some since I've been away. I'm in the snowy mountains now and snow is so quiet compared to living right on the Coastside in stormy weather, often the wind would blow so hard and the roar of the ocean was so deafening that I had to sleep in a bedroom farther away from that window facing the sea, which I sometimes feared, would blow in on me! If Maverick has grown substantially, I would probably have heard about it from friends. But who can say, I'm sure when it's stormy, that wave, in front of you, can appear to be 100' tall, which would be a world record!
That is epic story, thanks for sharing, you really convey the sense of feeling the power even from the shore. I surfed SanFrancisco many years but Mavericks is on a planetary level of awesomeness.
@@davidgough3512 True, but the danger is when you get caught under the lip at the crest and the wave then pushes you to the bottom, and you roll along rocks and have a hard time surfacing. I understand there is a safety vest now that surfers wear, that has some kind of a inflation device, something like the BC we used when diving, that can bring you to the top of the water, and I also understand they use break-away leashes now, which MAY have been Mark's undoing, if his leash got caught on the bottom (which some surfers believed). Whatever, Maverick it is still an unusual wave and will always be dangerous (and thrilling!).
Damn, you can really see the strong progression of comfort and different styles starting to emerge on that wave, now. They're not just trying to "make it" anymore. Sick video.
great music at the end. usually never hear a reggae beat with a polished, tied together lead guitar on top. all in all an excellent video of an awesome place.
I have no purpose in Life it's gone since many years............. and since I have no good occupation outside of pursuing sinnlos goals..... it makes me redundant
Major huevos. The water is ALWAYS cold here. There are rocks from the beginning of time and sharks, just in case you need a little added spice. Some of the very best watermen. AWESOME at every level.
Yeow that is some sick monsters I guess if your gonna surf big waves u need to be comfortable among a lot of other things free falling with it board just dropping out from under u and even if u get good ride the wave still gets u .THANKS wow.
There was this guy, Hmmmmmmmm, trying to recall his name. Oh wait, I remember it!! Quiet Riding Mike!!! From Oriole Beach Florida. NW Florida. Right near Cedar Key where Florida takes its turn heading down south. This guy was always dead quiet. Always smiled. Always. Had $$$$$$$$$ to burn. Yet was soooooo down to earth. And he could surf the biggest damn waves I’ve ever seen!!! He deliberately traveled the world, north south east west warm tropical waters to ice cold freeze your nuts off water. He surged them all. No fear. He had. And man, did he surf drop down inside 50 60 70 plus WAVES!!!! [
Nice job honing in on a beat down... Let’s us remember how awesome it feels to make one (& I’m only referring to the little 5-7 footers I b gettin’...lol)🤙🏻
The part at 3:11 is crazy, he was trying to drop and the wave picked him up and literally threw him over the falls. These guys have some serious balls to drop in on that monstrosity of a wave
Never surfed Mavs or Hawaii but I can tell you the speed rush on a San Francisco wave is well beyond anything wrapping into Santa Cruz, so Mavs must be beyond insane!
Not only r these warriors riding giant powerful waves, on top of that ice cold water sharks and all the gear they have to wear to stay alive. true gladiators.
Best from any other sport would be humbled to exhaustion or tears just taking it on the head in normal overhead surf (or smaller). This is obviously all that many times squared.
Damn, that was one crowded wave :) How those swimmers manage to escape timely and avoid getting squeezed by falling water mass from above and smashed all together in one pile - that's beyond me.
The only reason is most of those people out there are experienced/crazy enough to be out there in the first place. So they all seem to congregate towards a their floatilla of little stoked out ants on these massive waves and guide each other. What you don't see so much are people getting caught between sets, these are monstrous waves you dont just duck dive through. You have to paddle around the outside or basically dive through the wave without your board and corkscrew your body through the other side and yank your board with your leash.
What wipeouts the guy just landed in that nice white fluffy soft looking white foamy stuff no problem...doigh...thanks just kidding hope every body is good.piece.thanks for the show,mind blowing power.
Here because of argument in another surfing video. Is the waves bigger here or in Nazaré Portugal? Thanks Can see the waves here and smoother and cleaner, Nazaré is like surfing in a washer machine.
@@b4ssfunk3d he had tons of water drop right on him. Probably also got slammed to the floor and rolled. I had a 2 wave hold down and got fucked on a 15fter at the Wedge. I can only imagine what he felt!
Thanks! It would have been nice to let the film clips run out longer, like so we could see the result of the ski getting swamped or Matt Lopez's incredible ride.
Big wave surfing used to seem hugely impressive and death defying. But then a mild mannered, incredibly humble and unassuming guy named Alex Honnold went and free solo climbed Half Dome and El Capitan, and by comparison big wave surfing now seems positively pedestrian.
go paddle out in 10-foot or above surf and then come back and reply to your own comment. Not taking away from those amazing athletes at Half Dome, but at the same time not going to let what surfers do at Mavericks be slighted by comments like this.
@@PowerlinesProductions It's simple reality. When it comes to difficulty and death defying risk, there is no comparison. Not only is it far more difficult physically to free solo climb a huge, sheer granite wall, but make just a single minor mistake and it results in certain death. The physical exertion/skill required to surf a big wave for a few seconds is decidedly less, and big wave surfers routinely screw up and wipe out without consequence. And now with those inflatable wet suits they wear, even the small chance of fatality that previously existed has been far lessened. Call it a slight if you want, but the facts speak for themselves... when it comes to superhuman, death defying acts, free solo climbing any large, technically demanding wall stands alone. And if you still don't get it... try explaining why there are hundreds of big wave surfers, but only a very small handful of elite rock climbers who dare to even attempt free soloing, much less attempt to free solo big walls on the scale of Half Dome or El Cap.
This is literally the first and only time in 50 years of surfing that I've ever encountered such a stunted and myopic sentiment as expressed in your juvenile remarks. It's not about defying death, even though too many big wave surfers have died in their pilgrimage with destiny. These are not stunts. Much is never seen or filmed. It's about soul and beauty and communion with the energy of nature on another level. With all respect, the free soloists get to rehearse on the same rock repeatedly. If they slip there's no rescue, nobody else is involved. Would you prefer the surfers go without safety, knowing that their friends will risk their lives to help them? Your analysis is rather callous and dismissive, from the safety of your spectator armchair. Odd that you didn't include basejump wing-suiting or alpine mountaineering in your reductive, simplistic and false comparisons. Obviously not a surfer. Or a mountaineer. Garantee that it never occurs to the participants in any of these transcendent acts to measure themselves against each other this way nor do they think the the way you do.
i really don't get it. the ride is short, too steep, so predictably merciless. you get smashed, the water's fucking cold. there are waves that almost as big and fast in warm water. nice long fast rides10 15 20 foot perfect pipes in tropical water. rows and rows of them, is it just the challenge? i don't get it. is it the ride itself, or that you can say you rode a big one at mavericks?
Yeah it was initially an edit for Surfline. It recently came across on our archives so we posted it. So across our own platforms, this is the first time it's been posted AND WE PRODUCED IT. Thank you for your interest and we'll get more recent stuff up as it happens.
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My GOD!! Man versus beast. I have never been on a surfboard in my life but I love to watch this. I honestly don't know why. I was always a horse person. But this just amazes me. And I love it when they get through it!!! I want to cheer!
I lived right above Maverick (long before it was called Mavericks or Mavz!) and for about 30 years, I used to walk to the cliff right above the area and watch them surf the wave. The height of the wave has been highly exaggerated, it is usually about 20+' but if there is a storm out at sea, it can get up to almost twice that height, but that's rare. It MAY be that due to icebergs melting in the north, that the volume of water has increased some in our oceans, in the last few years with warmer global temps, but from trough to crest, Maverick is reaching to even be a 60 footer. The danger in surfing that wave lies with the rocky bottom and cliff where the wave breaks. That can be dangerous water if you get get pushed to the bottom. I went out on a boat with a friend from Pillar Point Harbor to help search for Mark Foo two days before Christmas in 1994, but we did not find him; they recovered him two days later. The water had been high for about a week when the news broke that it was pushing heights and people started coming from all over to surf, including Foo who jetted over from Hawaii. The water from the crash of the wave can push right up into the cliff and spray clear up on top where I was sitting when there had been a storm at sea, increasing the water volume. I moved from the area in 1998, but they had lost another surfer there the year before, and probably have lost some since I've been away. I'm in the snowy mountains now and snow is so quiet compared to living right on the Coastside in stormy weather, often the wind would blow so hard and the roar of the ocean was so deafening that I had to sleep in a bedroom farther away from that window facing the sea, which I sometimes feared, would blow in on me! If Maverick has grown substantially, I would probably have heard about it from friends. But who can say, I'm sure when it's stormy, that wave, in front of you, can appear to be 100' tall, which would be a world record!
That is epic story, thanks for sharing, you really convey the sense of feeling the power even from the shore. I surfed SanFrancisco many years but Mavericks is on a planetary level of awesomeness.
@@davidgough3512 True, but the danger is when you get caught under the lip at the crest and the wave then pushes you to the bottom, and you roll along rocks and have a hard time surfacing. I understand there is a safety vest now that surfers wear, that has some kind of a inflation device, something like the BC we used when diving, that can bring you to the top of the water, and I also understand they use break-away leashes now, which MAY have been Mark's undoing, if his leash got caught on the bottom (which some surfers believed). Whatever, Maverick it is still an unusual wave and will always be dangerous (and thrilling!).
I’ve never surfed or lived near the ocean but I can’t stop watching these guys.
Crazy bastards I love it
The not dying...omfg...! Props to camerawork!!! The outtake stills were jaw dropping.
Damn, you can really see the strong progression of comfort and different styles starting to emerge on that wave, now. They're not just trying to "make it" anymore. Sick video.
Best surf video ever.
Whoa Thanks!
Pretty sure I would have a heart attack out there. Massive respect for these guys.
Mikey J. I surfed back in the 70’s, but these guys are wayyy outta my league! Balls of STEEL!
As a life long surfer these guys are a different breed.
Yes indeed
Healey's ride charging through that barrel was insane.
O' but-- he isn't listed, as access in Halfmoon Bay! Black listed
great music at the end.
usually never hear a reggae beat with a polished, tied together lead guitar on top.
all in all an excellent video of an awesome place.
yes i had a same thought. Good vibes incomming :)
Stick Figure - Fire on the Horizon... you should check them out ...
Thanks
DUMPaSAURAUS Rex thx man, was wondering which track that was.
I have no purpose in Life it's gone since many years.............
and since I have no good occupation outside of pursuing sinnlos goals..... it makes me redundant
Loved this! Excellent. Thank you! ❤️
Thank You 🙏🏽
True big wave surfers paddle in. Mad respect.
Sooooooo SICK!!! Some incredible rides and footage!
Beautiful waves, digging the tune. Nice
Major huevos. The water is ALWAYS cold here. There are rocks from the beginning of time and sharks, just in case you need a little added spice. Some of the very best watermen. AWESOME at every level.
Some great drops, awesome pulls into a barrel - not a moment to think about getting nailed. Just pull and go....awesome.
Another fine production of moving artistry
Thank You 🙏🏽
Damn, Wilem Banks was fully embedded in the lip of a top to bottom Maverick's beast. That was hard core. Gotta respect those guy's.
Takes beatings like that to become one of the best out there today!
Good night! This is beyond brave to go out there. Even the very best doing it right but still getting worked HARD.
Inspiring guys. Great work
Excellent footage, loved it!!!
Best Mavs! #Respect Crew + Video Work
Thank you 🙏🏽
Yeow that is some sick monsters I guess if your gonna surf big waves u need to be comfortable among a lot of other things free falling with it board just dropping out from under u and even if u get good ride the wave still gets u .THANKS wow.
Well that was a pretty slick vid of the real deal. Coughing up blood is better then breaking eardrums. Yay jetski patrol. Amazing athletes.
The wave where the lad went left and got absolutely barrelled out there, at 4:32, was absolutely insane yeah..(!!)
Healy I presume
@@davidgough3512 Aye. To be sure.(!)
There was this guy, Hmmmmmmmm, trying to recall his name. Oh wait, I remember it!! Quiet Riding Mike!!! From Oriole Beach Florida. NW Florida. Right near Cedar Key where Florida takes its turn heading down south. This guy was always dead quiet. Always smiled. Always. Had $$$$$$$$$ to burn. Yet was soooooo down to earth. And he could surf the biggest damn waves I’ve ever seen!!! He deliberately traveled the world, north south east west warm tropical waters to ice cold freeze your nuts off water. He surged them all. No fear. He had. And man, did he surf drop down inside 50 60 70 plus WAVES!!!! [
Nice edit from one of the best who has been filming it there for a long time!
Thank you!
Love that song!
Amazing Music 💯
Great footage; thanks for posting.
Thank you 🙏🏽
amazing video. Pure art.
Thank You 🙏🏽
That last drop was just insane 😳
Awesome footage/background music!
Nice job honing in on a beat down...
Let’s us remember how awesome it feels to make one (& I’m only referring to the little 5-7 footers I b gettin’...lol)🤙🏻
Incredible!
The part at 3:11 is crazy, he was trying to drop and the wave picked him up and literally threw him over the falls. These guys have some serious balls to drop in on that monstrosity of a wave
Music was great - especially the last one.
Insane fuckin' footage! Killer work, dudes.
Thank You 🙏🏽
Yo Eric. You nailed it. Again....
Not for the weak .Fast Cold Mean..
Mavs is just fkn epic.
Ya 💯
When I surfed the Mavericks, the A-frames were akaw. I was totally stoked and amped but there were some aggro Barneys that showed up so I bailed
that wave just jacks up and launches! What is the speed of it, i wonder?not down the face but hurtling forward, i mean? It screams
Never surfed Mavs or Hawaii but I can tell you the speed rush on a San Francisco wave is well beyond anything wrapping into Santa Cruz, so Mavs must be beyond insane!
Peter Mel got absolutely detonated on that wave
Not only r these warriors riding giant powerful waves, on top of that ice cold water sharks and all the gear they have to wear to stay alive. true gladiators.
Best from any other sport would be humbled to exhaustion or tears just taking it on the head in normal overhead surf (or smaller). This is obviously all that many times squared.
Как это красиво и круто
Jan. 26, Australia Day, of course it's gonna be great surf! :)
Damn, that was one crowded wave :) How those swimmers manage to escape timely and avoid getting squeezed by falling water mass from above and smashed all together in one pile - that's beyond me.
The only reason is most of those people out there are experienced/crazy enough to be out there in the first place. So they all seem to congregate towards a their floatilla of little stoked out ants on these massive waves and guide each other. What you don't see so much are people getting caught between sets, these are monstrous waves you dont just duck dive through. You have to paddle around the outside or basically dive through the wave without your board and corkscrew your body through the other side and yank your board with your leash.
Telephoto compresses the image . Plenty of room.
What wipeouts the guy just landed in that nice white fluffy soft looking white foamy stuff no problem...doigh...thanks just kidding hope every body is good.piece.thanks for the show,mind blowing power.
4:33 amazing
Great video as always.
Thank You 🙏🏽
Some of those sets that rolled through were mean and massive.
Carlos Burle is Always where the action is!
Has to be one of the heaviest sessions . Way maaaaacho
Free bird at the end was chill...
So sick
I lived there for 12 years used to play in the pool with my boat never surfed it I wasn't good enough but I was good on the throttle
That throttle bit says it well lol !
Which town is that Beach on?
Peter Mel almost went down for a two count. What a crazy day
would be great to see this quality footage of Dungeons in South Africa,or can it simply not be filmed at this level,too unpredictable ?
3:55....like a house landing on your head.
Healy's charge was nuclear.
OMG JANUARY 26 2017 THAT WAS MY 17TH BIRTHDAY AND THIS is to much
Here because of argument in another surfing video. Is the waves bigger here or in Nazaré Portugal? Thanks
Can see the waves here and smoother and cleaner, Nazaré is like surfing in a washer machine.
when Stick Figure starts it`s pure magic
YEP, Amazing music 👍
@@PowerlinesProductions Love Your videos. Greetings from Poland
3:11 Cringed so hard. What a wipeout!!!
He got destroyed. That is a wipeout that some people wouldn't come back up from. I wonder what was causing him to cough up blood :(
He dropped like 20 or 30 feet
My main guest is that he had penetrated the water, then sent down to the bottom before the lip would have broken his neck.
@@b4ssfunk3d he had tons of water drop right on him. Probably also got slammed to the floor and rolled. I had a 2 wave hold down and got fucked on a 15fter at the Wedge. I can only imagine what he felt!
Not only is mavs big but also super heavy
In the 1970's I got pummeled by 12 foot waves, with a 2-wave hold-down. I sure wouldn't want to get worked by these.
How do they live? Being dumped in 2,3 footers is bad enough.
3:10 defiantly the most brutal one
Those guys are effin crazy...
Thanks! It would have been nice to let the film clips run out longer, like so we could see the result of the ski getting swamped or Matt Lopez's incredible ride.
furyofbongos
I agree but it's still pretty frickin' gnarly.
Great music who is it?
Big !!!
7:01 - 6 seconds later he is standing on his board at the top of the wave!
So insane
Who the hell gives this a thumbs down?! Humans are so weird...
4:33 Healey has that left dialed in...threading the needle on that gargantuan barrel
Goofyfoot! That's how I ride. Makes those lefts that much better.
Cold heavy water= produces more floatation -- resistance on surface- solid like.
How is this real?
Gonads of steel.
Stick Figure! Nice.
That look scary just watching!
How are u guys getting boards back ankle straps don't stay on in this kind of waves do they
Picture my mouth saying WOW but my mouth is the size of Mavericks biggest wave WOW
Awesome vid......mucho suffering.
Big wave surfing used to seem hugely impressive and death defying. But then a mild mannered, incredibly humble and unassuming guy named Alex Honnold went and free solo climbed Half Dome and El Capitan, and by comparison big wave surfing now seems positively pedestrian.
go paddle out in 10-foot or above surf and then come back and reply to your own comment. Not taking away from those amazing athletes at Half Dome, but at the same time not going to let what surfers do at Mavericks be slighted by comments like this.
@@PowerlinesProductions It's simple reality. When it comes to difficulty and death defying risk, there is no comparison. Not only is it far more difficult physically to free solo climb a huge, sheer granite wall, but make just a single minor mistake and it results in certain death. The physical exertion/skill required to surf a big wave for a few seconds is decidedly less, and big wave surfers routinely screw up and wipe out without consequence. And now with those inflatable wet suits they wear, even the small chance of fatality that previously existed has been far lessened. Call it a slight if you want, but the facts speak for themselves... when it comes to superhuman, death defying acts, free solo climbing any large, technically demanding wall stands alone.
And if you still don't get it... try explaining why there are hundreds of big wave surfers, but only a very small handful of elite rock climbers who dare to even attempt free soloing, much less attempt to free solo big walls on the scale of Half Dome or El Cap.
This is literally the first and only time in 50 years of surfing that I've ever encountered such a stunted and myopic sentiment as expressed in your juvenile remarks. It's not about defying death, even though too many big wave surfers have died in their pilgrimage with destiny. These are not stunts. Much is never seen or filmed. It's about soul and beauty and communion with the energy of nature on another level. With all respect, the free soloists get to rehearse on the same rock repeatedly. If they slip there's no rescue, nobody else is involved. Would you prefer the surfers go without safety, knowing that their friends will risk their lives to help them? Your analysis is rather callous and dismissive, from the safety of your spectator armchair. Odd that you didn't include basejump wing-suiting or alpine mountaineering in your reductive, simplistic and false comparisons. Obviously not a surfer. Or a mountaineer. Garantee that it never occurs to the participants in any of these transcendent acts to measure themselves against each other this way nor do they think the the way you do.
Already, the TV tubes, were a mis? < /3'v condensor tube Ro'' r < 3'v speed up Lo' variances / >
Do I get to ride in a Delorean to go into future and watch this video.
3:31 and 3:40. Wtf is behind him (upper left crn of the screen)?
Huge wavvels
True "no leg strap" Surfing.
This is my birthday lol Jan 26th
What is that at 2:13? Bottom center.
Punishing 5 floor drop... 3:09
How did that guy even live?
7:30 BIRD GETS A 10
Mavericks for power surfers only
i really don't get it. the ride is short, too steep, so predictably merciless. you get smashed, the water's fucking cold. there are waves that almost as big and fast in warm water. nice long fast rides10 15 20 foot perfect pipes in tropical water. rows and rows of them, is it just the challenge? i don't get it.
is it the ride itself, or that you can say you rode a big one at mavericks?
Very good question that we will answer in upcoming footage. Thanks - POWERLINES
Ask Hansel, he rode the monster!
Baby wave's ?
Right . On
Why drop to the *very* bottom where white water catches them ???
Like there's a choice? No way to hold an edge when that face goes beyond vertical.
Great vid. Someone uploaded this same bit before. No biggie.
Yeah it was initially an edit for Surfline. It recently came across on our archives so we posted it. So across our own platforms, this is the first time it's been posted AND WE PRODUCED IT. Thank you for your interest and we'll get more recent stuff up as it happens.
Powerlines Productions
Everything I've seen has been great. Thanks for sharing it all.
Thank you, it's really cool to hear feedback.
Powerlines Productions if jaws was your set you'd have 100x the subs. The drones, boat shots, land shots, left shots, go pro from surfers, you're awesome!! Unparalleled display of passion and dedication!! Thanks