Waves That Mattered: Bruce Irons, 100-point Ride, Eddie Contest, Waimea 2004
The most crowd-pleasing shorey ever ridden.
The most crowd-pleasing shorey ever ridden.
There was nothing little about the waves Brock liked.
Chasing XXL swells from from Ireland to Mavs, Nazare and Nias.
“At Pipeline, it’s white when you’re underwater, and at Sunset it’s grey,” Hawaiian Dennis Pang said in 1990, comparing a wipeout at Waimea to other North Shore waves. “Waimea is black.”
I needed a toothbrush. I needed a can of deodorant. I needed much more than that.