How The Right Almost Killed This Local Hellman With a 3-Wave Beatdown

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Kieran Huet - 5 years ago

That's fucking beautiful !

Mal Caithness - 5 years ago

Meh,Crossy just does it & doesn't talk it up win or lose.Couldn't pump the dislike button quick enough.

Ruben Santiago - 5 years ago

respects what a blast...

Eddie Gooden - 5 years ago

Jesus. All of these men and women are straight up Titans.

Goofball Gaming - 5 years ago

People still argue that other sports are tougher.. I love rugby league but i know surfing is nuts!

Riven JR - 5 years ago

Pray to him, he risked his life to make a nice video os his mate

Chris M.R. Santos - 5 years ago

its insanity to drop behind with a camera...too much near the lip ....too risky....

Sean Mastro - 5 years ago

Thank God there is no Snopes to verify surfers stories.

bipola telly - 5 years ago

Same thing happened to me.... 3-4 (ft) Hole in the Wall, Lancelin. 1994.
No canisters to save my life. Btw....

jason funderberker - 5 years ago

good break

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Ger Devanny - 5 years ago

Congrats on surviving. I know the feeling. I came close once. I remember it like it happened today. It happened in 1977 . I was 20. 3 wave hold down. It's something that you'll never forget. Your wave is far more insane.

NationalSi - 5 years ago

Mental case! Yeewwwwww!!

Chuck Pinter - 5 years ago

What a terrible moment, so glad you made it , I sometimes wonder if Big Wave Riders should have some sort of respirator where they can hit a button to draw oxygen out of a small tank on their back or something

kawika dav - 5 years ago

The guy dropped in on you, so you should have kicked his ass.

Jono Edwards - 5 years ago

Drop In Claimed!

vladimir jozic - 5 years ago

I thought the right is not surfed anymore as it's to dangerous

Guy Smiley :-) - 5 years ago

Damn, just by the way it looked you could tell that wave was so heavy. Like a ocean slamming on top of you.

TheShringster - 5 years ago

Dude!

BCM Outdoors - 5 years ago

that cam water mount should have two cams on it one in front and back. that cam guy was balls deep in it id rather see the footage of him. much respect. nuts.

Donald - 5 years ago

What a pussy.

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Abby crook - 5 years ago

this is literally angry boys the surfing bit

guy bartlett - 5 years ago

#surfthebeachcleanthebeach

snide95 - 5 years ago

THe camera survived?

jim surfnfish 808 - 5 years ago

You lived, so that insane shot was worth it, crazy one aren't you, thanks for the awesome story behind it.

forestsoceansmusic - 6 years ago

So...was the dude being photographed somehow responsible for the cameraman going down?

Vending Junkie - 6 years ago

That was so ganster

Kyle Senko - 6 years ago

Nice wave, bad beatings

1royalwolf - 6 years ago

Wow. Epic moment in his life for sure

John Heussenstamm - 6 years ago

I see 39 thumbs down over there. I guess those people can't be impressed unless the person falls from outer space and lands on the board while racing down the face of a wave.

Wayne Evans - 6 years ago

Zack Kay and sV3Z1, I think those small cannisters are available, strapped to the front of your vest. As you say you can't hold your breath but it must give the surfer a certian amount of breaths. I have only seen photos of them, I don't know if they are widely used, mabye they are dangerous.

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ryanbcreative - 6 years ago

The mindset you need to survive an experience like this. Unreal.

Chris Harding - 6 years ago

2 canisters and still down. Fuuuuuuuuck.

dan tsy - 6 years ago

DAMN

Damian OJEDA - 6 years ago

I'm not religious but every surfer gets to that point in our challenge where we stop everything and begin to talk to God

adrien ansquer - 6 years ago

Haha true. "if there is anyOne, give me your hand NOW! "

Neil Ovenden - 6 years ago

Looking for a camel!

Ryan Brennan - 6 years ago

Anyone else's heart rate going flat out listening to this ??

Benbenassi - 6 years ago

those photos are insane

Gator - 6 years ago

Fuck that!

Wecan Watersports - 6 years ago

How much money did he get for that picture?

Tranzor B Rad - 6 years ago

Pic of the decade! EPIC!!!

KAKK MADDAFAKKA - 6 years ago

For the dream yeeeew

G bluesman - 6 years ago

..in my pipe day's, i would grab my leash and climb for up

FakeMoonRocks - 6 years ago

Did he get pitted?

Steve Pidgeon - 6 years ago

Bear Grylls is looking for a new camera man to go first, you have the job.

pirateturns360 - 6 years ago

You seriously need to change up the title. I thought this was going to be like an alt-right beat down of a surfer, not a friggin' wave. I was expecting skin heads and Doc Martins laced up in white or red laces (old school) beating down a long haired hippy surfer. Hahahaha

J L Sky Media - 6 years ago

Ahh, to be young and dumb and full of cum again, I'd a come up and said 'shit, I nearly fucin popped myselve when the 3rd one rolled over but I knew it was a 4 wave set'.

thomas seven - 6 years ago

Pretty amazing shot. I was wondering how someone got it. Paid the price.

Rob Vig - 6 years ago

Full salute

American 33 - 6 years ago

I went over the falls on a 8 footer and thought I was gonna die ha!

dennydog - 6 years ago

Listened to the podcast the other day , the grin reapers with Brad Norris for those interested.

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Greg Rickard - 6 years ago

Thats why i stay in the carpark.

bodhi tree - 6 years ago

THE OCEAN AIN’T NO ONE’S FOOL ⚓️☠️

MusicMusicMusic - 6 years ago

Its true, positivity wins the day. If you want to stay alive, live in an attitude of gratitude, the fact this guy just relaxed and believed in positivity ( sometimes you have to align with love with prayer, im not religious - maybe spiritual) but yeah align with positivity.

Temax - 5 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT7DbYEVwSY

MusicMusicMusic - 6 years ago

You are a fuckn inspiration my friend. amazing.

ilyBb (RLaneJr) - 6 years ago

Gnarly brother! Awesome video! #ilyBb sacrificing it all for the shot!

stevenmartinez438 - 6 years ago

Canisters? Wtf

Knarly Doggo - 6 years ago

So they float

shane brady - 6 years ago

If your interested, and actually do surf waves like this, i can educate you ,lol

LangsfordMusic ltd - 6 years ago

Bloody dead set legend you are mate. Onya.

Slim Charles - 6 years ago

Emotional hold down.

nathan megalegend - 6 years ago

Do it without the jetskis and vests and youll be as brave as a lot of guys that go it alone paddle in and nobody knows if you die . Wank on wankers . Circle jerk all you want but there are hard men everywhere that have none of that and walk down the beach back to get into their work gear and go to their job.

Motion Factory - 6 years ago

RESPECT!!! unreal bro -glad you made it - shooooowweeeeeee...heavy !!!

Pete - 6 years ago

Dude riding in front needs a camera on his backside facing the filmer for when he eats shit super deep

Minor Gray Music - 6 years ago

holy hell. fkn warrior.

Francois Theron - 6 years ago

Big wave surfers need to start doing some deadlifts to deal with the pressure of the impacts they deal with. Waves like this are too rare to train for using just surfing and cardio.

Goober tuber - 6 years ago

Some big wave surfers do alot of underwater breath holding in pools, some have trained to hold their breath for up to 5 mins in a calm water, would be less being thrashed around in the ocean but enough to survive being dumped by waves this size with the equipement they use.

Sub Samadhi - 6 years ago

Is that the box?

Mark Cappellanti - 6 years ago

In case you think what you do is dangerous.

Island life - 6 years ago

Scary shit for sure.

Peace Soup - 6 years ago

Dude in front must have been proper relived he came up ok, that fade sent him beyond deep on that beast.

Joshua Vazquez - 6 years ago

awesome guy

Joshua Vazquez - 6 years ago

pure art

Jetty 1502 - 5 years ago

Awesome

Nate Otto - 6 years ago

nope. goddamn

James Binkley - 6 years ago

God damned.

James Binkley - 6 years ago

Jetty1502 know.

James Binkley - 6 years ago

Jetty1502 lose..

Peter Page - 6 years ago

I had a wipe out like this at Bondi

Caden Taylor - 5 years ago

Me too...in my slip n slide

pigskin1000 - 5 years ago

no you didn't. I assume you are joking.

HARRY - 5 years ago

+Bassing In Florida Mate, literally yesterday there were like some 7ft sets rolling in

shane marz - 5 years ago

I had a good hold down in my bathtub.. super bad

Bassing In Florida - 6 years ago

2ft lol

Newell Harry - 6 years ago

Had one like this at Rose Bay

J L Sky Media - 6 years ago

yip, had one in 2 foot surf at my local beachie

Alejandro Moro - 6 years ago

happened to me in Tamarama, terrible...

Goober tuber - 6 years ago

That is just your mind playing tricks on you after you swallowed a turd in that cess pool.

Pacific Dynamic Builders - 6 years ago

Ozzy man reviews?

Ducati Drew - 6 years ago

Pacific Dynamic Builders Destination fucked.

chulieho - 6 years ago

bad ass

Travis Bickle2.0 - 6 years ago

Hehveee

Whereisharald - 6 years ago

Wow.that there must be one of the gnarliest wipeouts.

sV3Z1 - 6 years ago

Why can't they attach a small pressurized air canister on their vests in case this happens, enough for two or three breaths, making it safer? Surely they've thought about it, would cost much, isn't heavy...etc. What are the problems with this idea?

T Stedman - 5 years ago

The big risk is fucking around with air cannisters and trying to breathe and then do a controlled ascent in the impact zone, the next bomb that breaks is going to try to kill you. You might be lucky enough to survive a few hundred tonnes of water trying to mash you into the reef once or twice but your luck will run out quickly!

getl0st - 5 years ago

It's good to see the current level of stupid being displayed in this thread...

Stewart Gartland - 6 years ago

The big risk is air embolism. You take a slug of compressed air, hold your breath for even a second, the wave rolls you up into half the depth of water and you've got burst air sacs in your lungs and you're drowning in your own blood. If your lungs are full, you can get air embolism in 8 feet of water or even less! Too risky!

OK Smith - 6 years ago

Q.E.D.

Jake Heke - 6 years ago

Shut the hell up, nerds

V Mill - 6 years ago

sV3Z1 theoretically (bear in mind I don’t understand the specifics of the device) there would be no danger of the bends providing the surfer in question looks upwards and breathes out continually as they come back up. oxygen expands as you ascend, but if you breath it out in time you’ll be fine as the other effects of the bends usually be an issue unless you go really deep.

shane brady - 6 years ago

nathan megalegend...At 10 meters air inhaled from a cannister MUST be exhaled as you ascend! 10 meters is deep enough for the air inhaled from a cannister to over inflate your lungs and cause serious damage if you just hold it in!! Hey, i dive SCUBA as well as surf, believe me, i know, ive seen this happen to an idiot who got in trouble free diving and took a breath from a SCUBA divers spare reg then shot to the surface in a panic without exhaling! Here is an analogy. Ime diving at 10 meters, i take a breath of compressed air then exhale it into a balloon then let the balloon go. As it ascends the air in it expands as the pressure decreases till the balloon ruptures, just as your lungs could. Its more likely with lungs that you would get air diffusing into the blood by pressure causing AGE..Arterial gas Expansion. Leading to air bubbles that can go to the brain causing paralysis, brain damage and possibly death!!! A sever over inflation WOULD rupture the lungs just like the balloon!!10 meters is not deep but the pressure difference even at this depth is enough to be catastrophic! In WW2 guys free ascending from subs trapped on the ocean floor found this out the hard way. At great depth it is VERY difficult to exhale fast enough to stop this happening no matter how hard you are trying to blow air out!! Rate of ascent in this case must be controlled if you are going to make it safely to the surface. This is an entirely different condition to the "bends" which as mentioned by some is Nitrogen saturation that on rapid ascent causes nitrogen bubbles to diffuse out of the blood..QED:/

shane brady - 6 years ago

WTF???, hahahahahahahahahahahahahahah

shane brady - 6 years ago

So many brainless answers:/ Of course you CAN have a mini cannister of air or oxygen as long as you have a regulator attached:/ These can be bought and are used sometimes while SCUBA diving in case of stupidly running out of air, or a problem with your primary gear. Military use them for bailing after Heli crashes. They have also been used by some big wave surfers:/ RESEARCH before making a dick of yourself with stupid answers:/ Check out the "Spare Air" model 170 with custom pouch that can be attached to wettie. 20 odd breaths! Of course some knowledge of SCUBA operation would be handy. In the event of a forced, RAPID ascent from 10 meters by wave forces [very rare] you need to exhale or yes, it would cause rapid expansion of air in the lungs. Certainly not for use by many commenting here, but a lifesaver in some big wave or any other long hold down circumstances, for those with a brain:/

CCRider - 6 years ago

There was a kneeboarder who surfed in my area and he had a custom vest with a small built-in air canister on his chest with a mouthpiece. Always thought it was funny since I'm in Cali where waves aren't like this but who knows maybe he had an ailment or something.

RavnHe - 6 years ago

i think i heard that normal people can breath against roughly 0.5 meters of water, nothing close to 10m

nathan megalegend - 6 years ago

Rhidian D this setup is very common and called a hookah . Its pressurised so no drama. Google shit bro

nathan megalegend - 6 years ago

Zack Kay you can safely breathe air at 10m and bounce to the surface . 20 to 30m plus and its all about nitrogen saturation in your blood. More time= greater risk

nathan megalegend - 6 years ago

sV3Z1 bends is nitrogen saturation built up over time. When you ascend the bubbles of nitrogen expand too quickly if you do and damage your vessels

nathan megalegend - 6 years ago

Zack Kay bullshit. You breathe out then breathe in the air you took with you

nathan megalegend - 6 years ago

Cave Goblin no they wouldnt . Go do your dive ticket and find out

Luke Lucky - 6 years ago

sV3Z1 they've done that

sV3Z1 - 6 years ago

Rhidian D: Cheers, that was the answer I was looking for, good explanation!

Rhidian D - 6 years ago

Imagine being 10m under water with a hose connected to the surface that you can breath through. Every time you try to suck air through the hose from the surface your diaphragm has to generate enough force to displace the same volume of water as the air you just pulled-in. However, because the pressure at the surface is much lower than the pressure at your depth, it's really difficult to do this (in fact I doubt you could at 10m). The way around this is of course to use pressurised air in canisters, which are at a high enough pressure to overcome the pressue of the water around you. The trouble is, as you come up to the surface the pressure acting on your body decreases, but the pressure of the air in your lungs, and oxygen in your blood-stream, doesn't. That means if you take a breath of pressurised air at 10m depth, and a wave scoops you up to the surface, the air in your lungs, and oxygen in your blood, will expand rapidly because of the reduced pressure. This can rupture/damage your lungs and cause air bubbles to form in your blood stream (called an embolism) which, if they reach your heart, can cause a heart attack, or a stroke if they reach your brain, and a whole range of other problems. Of course you can prevent these dangers when diving by ascending slowly. The trouble in surfing is that the wave is likely to throw you around a lot and take you from deep to shallow water really quickly, before you even have a chance to exhale. On top of that you're likely to be in panic and have been bashed around from the wave impact. I'd guess more people would be killed by pressurised air accidents than from actually drowning.

girabaldy tasty - 6 years ago

+sV3Z1 that's probbaly the best thing

sV3Z1 - 6 years ago

Cheers- will check out the bends on wikipedia!

girabaldy tasty - 6 years ago

+sV3Z1 idk exactly but it has to do with the pressure of the air. When you breathe the air from the surface and bring it down the air at the surface is at a different pressure than air you bring down with you. If you hold your breath while breathing air from a tank, and a wave or swell goes over your head the depth and water pressure changes causing the air in your lungs and blood to expand witch does something too you.

sV3Z1 - 6 years ago

Cheers for the reply. Isn't the bends caused by rate of ascent, so if they took a few puffs of oxygen and took their time getting to the surface, and breathing out excess oxygen gradually they would be ok? Better than drowning. I am not a biologist-doctor-or diver-so if any biologist-doctor-divers out there, would be good to know!

girabaldy tasty - 6 years ago

When you bring air down with you you can't hold your breath. When your scuba diving you can't hold your breath.

Cave Goblin - 6 years ago

Would get the benz coming up from such depth if u got an extra breath under water

Nikolas Tomas KADERAVEK - 6 years ago

SUCK ME

fiddlestickz muzik - 6 years ago

heavy shit

BALLISTICJELLY - 6 years ago

I don’t know how you stand up with balls that big and made of iron. Fuck me that looked bad.☠️

john doe - 6 years ago

that shot does look awesome though worth heh

Emanuel Paixão - 6 years ago

Wow

The Surf Rat - 6 years ago

this man put himself on the line to get us keyboarder fattys those epic photos. get him a beer

Eddie Gooden - 5 years ago

Seriously!

lhavenothingtosay - 5 years ago

my chub has a chub for him.

gmacca21 - 6 years ago

Nah to lazy will drink a beer for him lol

Paul Freed - 6 years ago

A tinny mate. A tinny!

Aint1S - 6 years ago

Hell no, I don't like the feeling of a hold down on the ocean floor! That 3 wave hold down is damn terrifying when you hit bottom to not move forever in pitch black, when you're coming up to get held again right when you start to see some color in the water to get oriented upright, and almost back to the top when you start sucking in sea foam that's over your head... I quit, gave up on mine... The interval was shit.
Don't like to hear about it at all... Bad things come in 2s and hell is coming in 3s!

Adam Willetts - 6 years ago

Berserk

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