64 Foot Wave - Mike Parsons At Jaws Beach, Hawaii

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Mike Parsons (born March 13, 1965, in California) is an american professional surfer and surfing coach. Parsons was raised in Laguna Beach, California and began surfing when he was six-years-old. In 1983, he earned second place in the Junior Division of the United States Surfing Championships. In 2001, Parsons was towed into a 66-foot wave at Cortes Bank, CA, for which he was awarded $66,000 the highest prize ever awarded in the history of professional surfing. This money was awarded by the Billabong XXL competition which paid tribute to the biggest waves ridden each year. Parsons also surfed a 64-foot wave during competition at the Jaws break on the north shore of Maui. It was filmed by helicopter and used as the opening scene of the 2003 film Billabong Odyssey. A usually uncredited clip of this sequence has gone on to become a viral video, attributed to a number of different surfers, locations, and in many cases, a Tsunami. Parsons later broke his record on January 5, 2008, at Cortes Bank, when he was photographed surfing a wave that the Billabong XXL judged to be 77 feet, which put him in the Guinness Book of World Records, officially, for biggest wave ever surfed. Nearly 4 years later Garrett McNamara improved on this record with a 78-foot wave off Nazaré, Portugal on November 1, 2011. In 2011, Parsons became the full-time coach for surfer Kolohe Andino. On January 20, 2013, Parsons suffered a broken C7 vertebra in his neck and nearly drowned while surfing triple-overhead surf at Ocean Beach, a beach break in San Francisco, California. Parsons was able to return to surfing four months later. Parsons was inducted into the Surfer's Hall of Fame in Huntington Beach, California in 2008. - Probably you'll never find this footage with this soundtrack since I've decided to mix them, so enjoy =]

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Scott Ickes - 5 years ago

Massive swells predicted now?

Scott Ickes - 5 years ago

Can I record this and share on fb

Dave S. - 5 years ago

Viewed from above (helicopter) it's very difficult to judge the height of a wave because you can't see where the trough is until the wave breaks, and even then the skewed perspective makes it difficult to estimate based on a 5-6' height of the surfer. But based on the latter, I agree with those who say it's nowhere near 64'. More like 30-40'; impressive, but not that unusual.

Marcia Mentzel - 5 years ago

Foda

Diego Mr - 5 years ago

wtf man? what is this¿ jet sky¿ no no sr. you need swiming! like jay , foo, if you wanna be leyend some day

John A - 5 years ago

That wuz S I C K ! ! !

outside the rattlebox - 5 years ago

C'mon its obviously 63.005 FT

The sandman - 5 years ago

Waves are predicted to be this big here next week !

condor67 - 5 years ago

good luck :P

Peanut and Oreo Basset - 5 years ago

Ilovenorcal Are you referring to San Francisco?

Blake SD - 5 years ago

Oh my! It was intense watching this. :)

10. comment for 64 Foot Wave - Mike Parsons At Jaws Beach, Hawaii

Dav- Atar - 5 years ago

Jaws? Wroit Govna! Fake News Who's Zomi Who?

DayG - 5 years ago

THAT IS BEAUTIFUL

Fardin Mahzoob - 5 years ago

Yeah! Jaws Peahi is actually Cortes bank.

Ronald Arnold - 5 years ago

Thanks cuz hokipa cortez banks.

Mqge - 5 years ago

GOD. DAMN.

Johnny Ravo - 5 years ago

Death on a stick!

Peanut and Oreo Basset - 5 years ago

Johnny Ravo That is a good way to describe it.

Jason Jackson - 5 years ago

Amazing.... it took nearly 30 from the time he let the rope go to where he got into the meat of the wave.

Island life - 5 years ago

Wow- amazing !

HK30B Milsim - 5 years ago

Nuts!!

Content deleted - 5 years ago

More like 29-32

Robert Zatkin - 5 years ago

It is difficult, as a taxpayer, to sympathize or approve of adult men that claim conquest of a very large wave. If the 'man' fails, society pays the cost of rescue and recuperation. Hardly fair, yet hardly mature.

Ray's Road Rage - 5 years ago

Here's a quarter, call someone who cares LMAO

Ray's Road Rage - 5 years ago

Robert Zatkin womp womp

20. comment for 64 Foot Wave - Mike Parsons At Jaws Beach, Hawaii

Fardin Mahzoob - 5 years ago

Wow! He just got wiped out at the end of the video.

Content deleted - 5 years ago

Well he was held down for 1 and half minutes!

Fardin Mahzoob - 5 years ago

I don't know why Mike Parsons got wiped out at the end of the video in Jaws beach, Maui, Hawaii. He actually jumped off.

Kai Maddog - 5 years ago

Looks like two feet oh sorry let me soon out again h my god that I big my mind was blown

Nic Parker - 5 years ago

that white foam makes you sink...

putra yudi - 5 years ago

gguij

putra yudi - 5 years ago

kwkwkwk

P MiG - 5 years ago

Chopped food channel surfing

P MiG - 5 years ago

Ben Gravy 2018 surfer of the year

gangsterboogie - 5 years ago

Yewwwwww

666MikeRochip - 5 years ago

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/103783874/massive-wave-south-of-nz-believed-to-be-a-southern-hemisphere-record

Kommandant Franz - 5 years ago

?? xD

Pohai Müller - 5 years ago

Wow. Barreling, too

John Lahr - 6 years ago

It can be Waves (1999)

John Lahr - 6 years ago

Waves (1998)

30. comment for 64 Foot Wave - Mike Parsons At Jaws Beach, Hawaii

Aric Goss - 6 years ago

Jesus

Jeffrey Moss - 6 years ago

Fake news!100% Cortez Bank.

Jason b - 6 years ago

Insane...but fallout awesome. ..if he wiped out....he would be dead!....No Question!

Noonie One - 6 years ago

He made it!!

Mary Burgess - 6 years ago

64ft at what point?
40ft max unless he is 9ft tall!
But still full respect!!!

DFOJAIX fojaix - 6 years ago

Great

Fardin Mahzoob - 6 years ago

It's a 64 foot Naźare wave.

Fardin Mahzoob - 6 years ago

World's biggest wave ever surfed - Naźare + Jaws beach, Hawaii.

bryce flanary - 6 years ago

FUCK YEAH AGENT ORANGE IS THE SHIT

Mikey Cowley - 6 years ago

I have for Mr Bump, I HAVE A LOT OF BUMPS!

高橋友介 - 6 years ago

amazing video!

Calmed By Nature - 6 years ago

and we never saw mike again.

Nathan Griffith - 6 years ago

whats the music

bryce flanary - 6 years ago

Mr. Moto by Agent Orange

captmack007 - 6 years ago

we will call this wave the Mike Parsons project

Uncle Rico - 5 years ago

lmao....thats one for us old guys.

Brayden_da_King - 6 years ago

this is fake

ben keast - 6 years ago

mighty duck are you dumb

Demitri Nieto - 6 years ago

yea

Г Г - 6 years ago

I'm pretty sure this was at Cortes Banks, not Jaws.

Nash - 6 years ago

No, it is Jaws of Maui.

Annie Nguyen - 6 years ago

I'd shit my pants

Mike Robinson - 6 years ago

I'm intrigued. 64ft?!? Not 63. Not 65? Not 70ish?

SuperSMT - 5 years ago

And it looks more like 30

MCM - 6 years ago

Mike Robinson - Garret explains... https://youtu.be/wYb0ov_b9jM

Der Mongo - 6 years ago

They usually measure the weight of the balls of the surfer and convert that from pound to feet with a 1 to 1 ratio

Matthew Meek - 6 years ago

Yeah Whats the measurement method on these things?

goofyfoot2001 - 6 years ago

Just still think that tow in surfing has made it too easy. So much more impressive when they kick off the top and drop in.

Big Darbs - 6 years ago

Tow in surfing has made it possible, not easy. There is no way to paddle in to that, it is too fast moving and takes too long to peak.

Ralph Irvine - 6 years ago

Balls of steel, Mike

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Chris Papamitrou - 7 years ago

that wave is at cortes banknot jaws, unless they're the same thing im not from cali but pretty sure its cortes bank

James Scott - 5 years ago

its jaws

Shark Tooth - 6 years ago

Ya not Cortes, although that resembles a clip from Step into Liquid with Gerlach towing Snips..

MCM - 6 years ago

There was a similar vid of Parsons... at cortez, years ago.

TheTiller996 - 6 years ago

I live a couple miles from here. That’s jaws. Shot from the shoreline cliff. West side of peahi gulch.

MoreWontonSoup - 6 years ago

Chris Papamitrou trust me it's jaws, Cortes banks doesn't have much barrels and it looks different

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