Style Master Gerry Lopez throws delightful shade on new 86-foot big wave record, discusses probability of mythical 100-foot ride: “You just have to have big balls [laughs]. It probably already has been done. It's just that nobody has acknowledged it yet.” - BeachGrit

Days ago it was revealed, here, that a new record for the “biggest wave ever ridden” had become official. Sebastian Steudtner had surfed the Nazare beast eighteen-months earlier but it took a crack scientific team to discover a new way of measuring, one that …

A tour breakdown that employs both the BPEL and NBPEL measurements and many disdainful pinpricks. With Margaret River gone, the Tour has been pruned to a manageable twenty-three surfers including G… [+12102 chars]

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