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Rodrigo Koxa can now say he has ridden the biggest wave ever surfed. The Brazilian rode a 24.4-metre monster at Nazaré in Portugal on 8 November but it wasn’t until Saturday that it was recognised at the World Surf League’s Big Wave awards in California View the video at https://www.theguardian.com/sport/video/2018/apr/30/rodrigo-koxa-rides-biggest-wave-ever-surfed-video

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Goku Saiyan - 6 years ago

Who else sees a flying disc just randomly show up ?

E Dubble's Spirit - 6 years ago

Meanwhile in my living room...

I have not done anything.

Cretinsahoppin - 6 years ago

As crazy as this looks this video doesn't do it nearly enough justice. The biggest I have been out in (not surfed, I was petrified) was 10-12 FOOT and you feel as if the wave could kill you. 24.4 metres, my god.

Dee Brew - 6 years ago

Awesome - but title should be biggest wave ever tow-surfed. Pulled by a jetski like a wakeboarder into a wave while attached to a board with footstraps is tow surfing which is very different than big wave surfing. Amazing footage but I think the guys that paddle under their own power into Jaws or Mavericks without a jetski are accomplishing a much more complicated feat.

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오승진 - 6 years ago

Huge

Chofey Juan - 6 years ago

Glad that wave could support your huge testicle sack, well done

Aaron McConnell - 6 years ago

He ded.

SpaghettiToaster - 6 years ago

Amazing as it is, I think this record might be short-lived. It took them a long time to get this ride sorted out which is why he only got the official record now. But in the meantime, there were a lot of huge waves in January and February this year that look to be a similar or even greater size, by Steudtner, McNamara, Gabeira and that terrifyingly gigantic one by Vau. I don't know if there's any clear enough footage to get a proper measurement on that last one, and the ride might not be eligible because he went right and noped out halfway across the wave (probably saved his life), but judging by the footage and eye witness reports that one might have actually been 10 meters (!) taller than this one, can you imagine that? Nazaré man

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Joseph Campitiello - 6 years ago

WOW

Crankman Crankman - 6 years ago

Did this man just ride a potential tsunami? Too ballsy

Crankman Crankman - 6 years ago

Was a joke but a free scientific lesson is much appreciated guys

ddstar - 6 years ago

tsunamis are just a rise in sea level.. they don't form waves like this.

SpaghettiToaster - 6 years ago

Jan-Willem Also it's not even the force of the wave that's dangerous but the fact that the whole water level rises above that of a flat shore for a while. If an actual tsunami hit this part of Portugal, it would do absolutely nothing except flood the beaches (terrible enough though).

Jan-Willem - 6 years ago

Tsunami's aren't high waves at all, usually just a bulge in the water. It's when a tsunami reaches land it unleashes it true force.

greg brasell - 6 years ago

I saw a man on a surf board, and he went weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

greg brasell - 6 years ago

Gonads in the lightning.

mike hunt - 6 years ago

gonads and strife

Thomas Neal - 6 years ago

O.o

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