Moving water is our trade......
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Topic: Moving water is our trade......
Posted By: Mr.Grinch
Subject: Moving water is our trade......
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2011 at 10:08pm
How about water MOVING!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XOTCA8UpeU&feature=youtube_gdata_player
As a surfer first, kayaker second (though I enjoy each in opposite frequency to my attraction), this video is freakishly resetting the bar. Taller waves have been ridden, but this break in Tahiti just gets heavier and heavier. Size? Well, a 60 foot non tube wave with an "easy" shoulder (Cortez Bank, outside Log Cabins) will never be the weight over air that Teahupoo has proven itself to be. Pipeline will always be acessable, and superior for spectators, but nowhere else does one get more water overhead while in the tube, and nowhere else can the spit be so solid.
I am not a class V+ boater, nor am I capable of riding waves like the ones in that video. But I do know both require massive skills, a steady mind, and trust in your fellow watermen(women).
This was a heavy day, and I thought some of you might respect/enjoy this clip.
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Posted By: irenen
Date Posted: 18 Dec 2011 at 12:52pm
Wow, that is seriously unbelievable. When that wave curls in on itself it's like an explosion going off.
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It's all fun and games until someone loses a paddle.
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Posted By: STLboater
Date Posted: 19 Dec 2011 at 4:01pm
HEAVY.
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Kayak Academy Whitewater Instructor
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Posted By: septimus prime
Date Posted: 19 Dec 2011 at 4:08pm
Yes!!!
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Jon Shell Bee
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Posted By: dave
Date Posted: 19 Dec 2011 at 5:51pm
I can do that...
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Nomad
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Posted By: jP
Date Posted: 19 Dec 2011 at 10:14pm
Awe inspiring indeed- even just the casual way the boats and jet skis were hanging out so close to it was impressive. Epic proportions.
Btw sorry I'm such a compulsive poster lately- got the no-water blues and PP is pacifying my longing for paddling. Plus its damn near winter solstice, so its even hard to get after work flatwater sessions in. Man I need water bad. Its like going too long without getting laid. Worse, in fact!
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