Let the geeks over at Guinness figure out if this is a record-breaking wave. Who cares? The photo is amazing. Shot by To Mane in Praia do Norte, Portugal, Garrett McNamara looks like a man who just jumped off a building. This place is a big wave factory. A long trench runs up the seafloor [ more... ]

Red Bull scores another post to The Goat; the second this week. At least a bit of cash from those syrupy energy drinks are going to athletes doing crazy nonsense. Here Tao Berman surfs a 40ft wave on a specially made kayak that comes with fins and a surfboard-style hull. He was towed into the wave by a jetski. After his world record run, he says he’s chosen to retire from paddling. No! Right when they were about to make big wave kayaking an Olympic event!

via Get Outdoors

There’s no limit to the size waves that can be surfed with tow-ins, says big-wave jedi Greg Long, but waterman are reaching the upper end of what can be paddled, he says in an interview with The Inertia. The future will be paddling into waves that were once the purview of jet skis, now made [ more... ]