Clicke here for Hawai'i's winter time off road sport....um, in the water I mean.

Its "chasing giants", tow in surfing with skis and sleds into mega waves, and the fun for not the faint at heart.

Check it out:

http://surfline.com/video/vids/2004/dec/jsps/jaws_dl_wm.cfm

Wow!

jeepers! just watching it isn't for the faint of heart. I dunno how they do it out there

Looks like a whole lotta fun....check out the attachment below for some really big stuff.

:plause: Now that was really incredible. :plause:

Go here for some wipeouts. Watch for the masher, over the falls and the deep plunge. The blue room inside the tube of the massive wave is caused by the depth of the water these break in. Then in the shallows, the room is green.

And where the water is white due to heavy foam, its a laundry machine hell. The foam is thick, you don't know which way is up, and to go down means to be hitting select choices of bruising reef, raw lava rock and a few boulders thrown in between. In the foam, and trying to catch your breath, your ingesting and inhaling the white stuff.

The guys riding these things are masters at lung capacity....most of them that is. Their training is year around, as the adrenalin rush is one that its all life means besides family, income, training and waves.

The sport is drawing so much attention, they fear aircraft collosion as well as water craft collecion as distinct realities.

The whole sport is fraught with high levels of adrenilan....Kaz, you readin this???

The State of Hawaii recently ended up making laws with the help of the riders, ski operators guiding hands, but the fact the the danger exsists at such a high level becuase of so many types of activity in one small place, some guiding hand had to step in.

Even the viewing area, due to the sports newness, has no safe seating. Its in a pinapple field, at the edge of Mauis central north shore, just before the Hana Road becomes a really tight 2 lane road.

At recent high waves, some spectators darn near went off the many story high embankment pushing and shoving to watch.

The pineapple ranch who owns the land stated " we as land owners have to do something to make it right" and announced "next winters wave shore spots availbilty will see possible closure due to harvesting that needs to be done. And also please people, clean up the litter". The landowner were'nt
too pleased to see damaged fields by the on-lookers at this point of the season.

The skis going turn turtle and whichever way through the foam, ends up a piece of white and whatever color the deck was made in with final results of an modern art piece made by mother nature.

Problem is, try pulling your muti-thousand dollar art work up the cliff where the surf finally crashes to a stop.

Sorry for TYPICALLY draging stuff out, but here is the link:


http://surfline.com/video/vids/2004/dec/jsps/jawswipe_dl_wm.cfm

Those guys (& gals) surfing giants have BIG CAJONES! :eek:

Even the viewing area, due to the sports newness, has no safe seating. Its in a pinapple field, at the edge of Mauis central north shore, just before the Hana Road becomes a really tight 2 lane road.


I've been there, one of the most beautiful places on earth, Maui is incredible! :cheers:

Looks like a whole lotta fun....check out the attachment below for some really big stuff.

Wonder who the rider was in that sequence. That looked like Cortez Bank off San Francisco. Definitely a deep water break. Was nice to hear the wind and the water doing its stuff without the music too.

One thing bout deepwater breaks, it is much easier to keep it together, as your not being body punched, as well as major limb abuse in shallower close to shore waves. WIth his speed, if he would have left earlier and entered into the colored water, diving to the side the wave was moving, instead of into the white water, he may have gotten enough deep to punch out of the back side of the wave without the drop or "the Niagra effect".

oh yah.....well my moma said that she used to surf bigger waves than that when i was a wee little one........