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What's more awesome than surfing Jaws?

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Created by stehsegler > 9 months ago, 22 Jan 2011
stehsegler
WA, 3466 posts
22 Jan 2011 4:53PM
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That's right. Surfing Jaws at night:
(rider: Mark Visser, Jaws, 20/01/2011)

hardie
WA, 4082 posts
22 Jan 2011 4:59PM
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Rad Lad
226 posts
24 Jan 2011 10:04AM
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Thats RAD!

e0422713
WA, 975 posts
24 Jan 2011 11:01AM
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is he the first

Trousers
SA, 565 posts
24 Jan 2011 4:21PM
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when it's boring to rocket a sliver of wood down four stories of breaking water in the daylight, it must be hard to find your thrills. big cajones that bloke!

i'm not sure how much that spottie from the chopper is helping! might as well go all the way and do it blindfolded!

Rad Lad
226 posts
24 Jan 2011 4:14PM
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How the hell did the torch stay attached to his head under that white water? They must have screwed it into his head.

albers
NSW, 1737 posts
24 Jan 2011 8:09PM
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I think this might just beat it!

graceman
WA, 323 posts
24 Jan 2011 8:41PM
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Yep flying above your mate as he is about to open his shoot does it for me

PlioMax
WA, 20 posts
24 Jan 2011 9:22PM
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Definitely this!

flatout
84 posts
24 Jan 2011 10:03PM
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So awesome!!!

I went night windsurfing once. We lit up the sails with those flourescent fishing lights. Looked really awesome with 6-7 "christmas trees" on the water. Actually it wasn't hard to see the water and surf, the scary thing was coming in towards the beach at 25 knots, not being able to see it until we were about 25meters from shore.

It looks like the lights on his back is a huge advantage for the jet skier having to recover him from the surf. Maybe they should try and make a recovery device for "daytime" surfers, so surfers are more easily detectable when submerged.

BlueStorm
WA, 71 posts
24 Jan 2011 10:06PM
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yeah that snow kyting thing is amazing

Greenroom
WA, 7608 posts
25 Jan 2011 9:54AM
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Sick vid PlioMax

Trousers
SA, 565 posts
25 Jan 2011 2:19PM
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flatout said...

I went night windsurfing once. We lit up the sails with those flourescent fishing lights. Looked really awesome with 6-7 "christmas trees" on the water.


with a mate, I've sailled well past sun-down before on metropolitan lake, reluctant to stop with such a good summer evening breeze. eventually there was a fair bit of city light, but in the twenty minutes after sun-down, the water was entirely in silhoette and unreadable, so it was all sailling by feel (and keeping tabs on the other sailor so we didn't hit into each other). it was actually a lot easier than i would have thought.

but Jaws is no metropolitan lake - i'd expect the nutbag surfer above would have to spot the potential ramps to soak them up and not launch. but maybe not - maybe you just ride in a deep low position and you can absorb anything that comes your way.

and that para-sailing through the snow-capped crags? wow. that is amazing. it looks like they have absolute zero room for error, and then barrel-roll into the crevice??!?!! craaaaaaaaazy mofos!

graceman
WA, 323 posts
26 Jan 2011 9:59AM
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Ooh gota like the Flying with skis on, brilliant vid, I wonder what sort of forward speeds they get on those chutes.

And the practice runs beforehand

albers
NSW, 1737 posts
26 Jan 2011 1:21PM
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Another link to some amazing stuff. Either turn your speaker up or listen in with headphones to the first 10 seconds!!! Cheers

P.C_simpson
NSW, 1489 posts
27 Jan 2011 3:17AM
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This is pretty crazy too.

izaak
TAS, 1973 posts
27 Jan 2011 9:12AM
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All awesome vids guys, i quite like some of this guys freestyle moves.No that it is as epic as surfing jaws at night



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