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Judges with Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards will work to determine the actual size of the wave.

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Global warming – got to be!

OldEnglish on January 30, 2013 at 5:23 PM

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abobo on January 30, 2013 at 5:23 PM

My wife makes bigger waves in the tub.

Limerick on January 30, 2013 at 5:25 PM

Now that’s a Big Wednesday! Totally gnarly.

Christien on January 30, 2013 at 5:26 PM

Uhhmmmmm…..I didn’t see anything hard about it, I mean, really.

This is about as exciting a news story as this one:

“Professional Lumberjack Cuts Down Worlds Largest Tree”

Big effing deal. The surfer had nothing to do with the wave, and the lumberjack didn’t make the tree big.

The story is the 100 ft wave. Or, if the surfer was 10 years old.

BobMbx on January 30, 2013 at 5:33 PM

Dude…!

Seven Percent Solution on January 30, 2013 at 5:45 PM

BobMbx on January 30, 2013 at 5:33 PM

You have no idea what you’re talking about. Big wave surfing is about as deadly as Russian roulette with five bullets (or 7 if you have one of these). There are only a handful of people alive at any one time who have ever surfed 25′+ (Hawaiian scale) waves.

You could not even paddle out into that size of surf much less surf it in three lifetimes of practice. Put it this way. Being ragdolled underwater for more than a minute makes waterboarding seem like a mani-pedi. Imagine being attacked by a great white during an asthma attack.

You probably just can’t handle the idea that there is bravery, titanium-scrotum bravery that doesn’t involve a gun.

Capitalist Hog on January 30, 2013 at 6:18 PM

You probably just can’t handle the idea that there is bravery, titanium-scrotum bravery that doesn’t involve a gun.

Capitalist Hog on January 30, 2013 at 6:18 PM

I’m guessing you didn’t actually watch the interview with the dude. Jeff Spicoli was brighter than that dude. There’s no titanium-scrotum bravery involved in his case, dude is dumber than a bucket of warm camel snot.

SWalker on January 30, 2013 at 7:21 PM