Amazingly enough I once surfed. We lived on Maui for a year and I became proficient, if unlikely to win the Pipeline Masters Tournament. My biggest wave was a 14-footer at Honolua Bay and it was plenty big to inspire real respect on my part. "Jaws" at Ho'okipa on Maui's northeast shore, however, is an entirely different order of magnitude. In the winter Jaws can break 40 feet and up. Pioneered by Laird Hamilton and his posse, this place is only for the best of the best and even then it helps to be moderately suicidal. Now along comes this new guy, Chuck Patterson, who skis - yup, skis - down the face of the giants at Jaws. Take a look at the video - it really is quite amazing.
www.grindtv.com/surf/blog/24197/chuck+patterson+stuns+surfing+world+by+skiing+massive+waves/
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