Glad Eddie doesn't surf waves like this...

Given2Fly-Fish
Given2Fly-Fish Posts: 826
edited January 2013 in The Porch
100 foot wave barrier may have just been broken by Garrett McNamara

http://www.surfertoday.com/surfing/8441 ... -in-nazare
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  • whispering hands
    whispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    Yeah, but we ALLLLLLL know he would if he could!!
  • JonnyPistachio
    JonnyPistachio Florida Posts: 10,218
    Certainly makes me think he's no longer entitled to sing "Big Wave."
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  • whispering hands
    whispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    Sure he can, he'd just be singing about this guy!!
  • JonnyPistachio
    JonnyPistachio Florida Posts: 10,218
    whispering hands wrote:
    Sure he can, he'd just be singing about this guy!!

    Ok, I'll let it slide. But he should really think of changing the lyrics to:
    Got me a medium sized chest high wave, Got me a medium sized chest high wave,
    Got me a medium sized chest high wave, Got a chest high wave!

    Might be tough but it could be done. :P
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  • whispering hands
    whispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    JonnyPistachio wrote:
    whispering hands wrote:
    Sure he can, he'd just be singing about this guy!!

    Ok, I'll let it slide. But he should really think of changing the lyrics to:
    Got me a medium sized chest high wave, Got me a medium sized chest high wave,
    Got me a medium sized chest high wave, Got a chest high wave!

    Might be tough but it could be done. :P
    You DO know he surfs Molokai, right? I mean shit he has a house
    not too far from there, and the waves off that beach roll in
    Ten feet and higher! The biggest wave I know if him surfing was like 30
    Feet or something, with Kelly Slater, and some Baseball guy that also
    Loved surfing. But he's well beyond medium sized chest high waves, which
    to HIS. Chest would be a swell! He's only 5'7" tall!! Lmao that's a pretty
    funny visual actually!!
  • JonnyPistachio
    JonnyPistachio Florida Posts: 10,218
    whispering hands wrote:
    JonnyPistachio wrote:
    whispering hands wrote:
    Sure he can, he'd just be singing about this guy!!

    Ok, I'll let it slide. But he should really think of changing the lyrics to:
    Got me a medium sized chest high wave, Got me a medium sized chest high wave,
    Got me a medium sized chest high wave, Got a chest high wave!

    Might be tough but it could be done. :P
    You DO know he surfs Molokai, right? I mean shit he has a house
    not too far from there, and the waves off that beach roll in
    Ten feet and higher! The biggest wave I know if him surfing was like 30
    Feet or something, with Kelly Slater, and some Baseball guy that also
    Loved surfing. But he's well beyond medium sized chest high waves, which
    to HIS. Chest would be a swell! He's only 5'7" tall!! Lmao that's a pretty
    funny visual actually!!

    I had no idea actually.. thanks for that info though.. I saw some pics or video a long time ago and he didnt look too sure footed. I surf a lot of chest high waves.. they get any bigger and I dont want to fight the damned ocean. I just assumed Eddie was in the same boat from the things i've seen/heard over the years.

    I honestly doubt Eddie surfed a 30 foot wave. But I was wrong once before. Once. :lol: (johnny dangerously quote :P )
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  • whispering hands
    whispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    Hold in I'll try to find where I read that.. But I do remember
    The baseball guy I forget his name, saying Ed was completely
    In awe afterwards and thanked them both for making him do it,
    Saying it was the biggest rush of his life. And the man had boards
    reserved in tours, so he basically has surfed all over the world
    By now! I can't see him being tooooooo unsure, maybe just modest!
    Let me go find that quote!
  • whispering hands
    whispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    Ok, that story is told by Kelly Slater in Lance Mercer's 5x1. I had
    The participants of the actual surfing part of it confused none the less
    You can read about it in there. And the wave was 25 feet or so, none the
    Less it was huge!!
  • JonnyPistachio
    JonnyPistachio Florida Posts: 10,218
    whispering hands wrote:
    Ok, that story is told by Kelly Slater in Lance Mercer's 5x1. I had
    The participants of the actual surfing part of it confused none the less
    You can read about it in there. And the wave was 25 feet or so, none the
    Less it was huge!!

    Cool, I 'll have to check that out, thanks.
    Pick up my debut novel here on amazon: Jonny Bails Floatin (in paperback) (also available on Kindle for $2.99)
  • whispering hands
    whispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    Always welcome!
  • JonnyPistachio
    JonnyPistachio Florida Posts: 10,218
    That book is one of those I never got around to.. Just saw one copy on amazon for $50. Rare I guess.
    Pick up my debut novel here on amazon: Jonny Bails Floatin (in paperback) (also available on Kindle for $2.99)
  • Given2Fly-Fish
    Given2Fly-Fish Posts: 826
    whispering hands wrote:
    Ok, that story is told by Kelly Slater in Lance Mercer's 5x1. I had
    The participants of the actual surfing part of it confused none the less
    You can read about it in there. And the wave was 25 feet or so, none the
    Less it was huge!!

    Time to re-read 5x1! Great quote and story by Kelly Slater on Ed's big wave (that is huge). I think if you are in the water and Kelly is telling you to go for it, you owe it to yourself to give it a shot!

    Also great write up by Theo as well...
  • Hugh Freaking Dillon
    Hugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    Eddie Would Go
    Gimli 1993
    Fargo 2003
    Winnipeg 2005
    Winnipeg 2011
    St. Paul 2014
  • Hugh Freaking Dillon
    Hugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    JonnyPistachio wrote:
    That book is one of those I never got around to.. Just saw one copy on amazon for $50. Rare I guess.

    can't you still buy it here in goods/shop?
    Gimli 1993
    Fargo 2003
    Winnipeg 2005
    Winnipeg 2011
    St. Paul 2014
  • JonnyPistachio
    JonnyPistachio Florida Posts: 10,218
    Hugh Freaking Dillon wrote:
    JonnyPistachio wrote:
    That book is one of those I never got around to.. Just saw one copy on amazon for $50. Rare I guess.

    can't you still buy it here in goods/shop?

    Well Duh! silly me. yeah, right there for $30. Is it still monday or something? :P
    Pick up my debut novel here on amazon: Jonny Bails Floatin (in paperback) (also available on Kindle for $2.99)
  • Given2Fly-Fish
    Given2Fly-Fish Posts: 826
    The sea was angry that day my friends, like an old man trying to return soup at a deli.
  • Bathgate66
    Bathgate66 Posts: 15,813
    100 foot wave is insane.

    The video cuts off as soon as the top of the wave was coming down, what a tease !

    You know its a big wave when a jetski has to take you to the top crest !

    :shock:

    edit: the 37 second video is here
    http://www.nypost.com/p/news/internatio ... ewyorkpost


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