HEy Spicoli check this !

[Andre]

Wednesday 16th April 2008
Hawaiian big wave gladiator Shane Dorian, 35, from the Big Island Kona, pocketed his biggest pay check in an amazing professional career by taking out the Billabong XXL Ride Of The Year worth $50,000US. A former top 16 on the ASP World tour from the late 80's until announcing his retirement in 2001, including winning the Rip Curl Pro at Bells Beach in 2000, Dorian proved to be a popular winner at surfing's equivalent of the Oscars in front of 2000 fans at the Grove Theater in Anaheim, California. Despite being catapulted at the end of the mind-blowing 1st of November bomb swell at Teahupoo, Tahiti, the fact that Dorian stayed on his feet for as long as he did obviously won the judges over.

"Usually at Teahupoo, you pick your line, set a rail and normally make it, but that wave was really unique. I nearly fell at the start, nearly fell in the middle and then it clipped me at the end. To think that I got the Ride Of The Year is a huge honor for me, I'm really psyched that Billabong and Monster throw a big deal for this and all the guys who go out ride these waves but at the end of the day, the ride itself is the biggest reward and that's the one I will remember forever," said the quietly spoken Billabong sponsored pro who received his award from the ultimate host of the evening Mark "Occy" Occhilupo, who won Bells from Dorian in 1998. Occy was an immediate crowd favorite when he said, "My biggest fears are speaking in front of a crowd and big waves."

The winning footage of Dorian was taken by Brazilian Gustavo Camarao in a little tinnie that accidentally drifted too close to the Teahupoo reef - and for months after the epic session nobody knew if the shot actually existed, but Gustavo submitted prior the deadline and he scored the $5,000 cash prize. San Clemente's Mike "Snips" Parsons, 43, collected his second Biggest Wave Award for a 70ft (24m) monster at Cortes Bank, some 150 k's off the Californian/Mexico coastline. In 2001 Snips rode a 66ft wave also at Cortes to claim his first big wave award.

[amat]

Whats that surfing documentary called, the famous one that didn't come out to long ago? Showed a lot of amazing footage and was a very artsy film? Water Giants something like that? It's not that because I searched so figured you might know because while I know nothing about surfing and am scared of the ocean, that movie made me want to feel that feeling they talked about of being in the tube, described it so well, was a truly great documentary.

Anyone idea?

[amat]

That picture is incredible.

[Andre]

That picture is incredible.

Yep I recon that wake is from the size of that blokes balls dragging along!
They are all mad those men are on a diffenernt level from normal surfers. Life for them is flat as a pancake after you have to fight for your life like that, you have to have it again and again or you start dying off.

[Andre]

No idea which flick but will ask someone soon,ill find out and watch it for myself.

[Spicoli]

That picture is incredible.

Yep I recon that wake is from the size of that blokes balls dragging along!
They are all mad those men are on a diffenernt level from normal surfers. Life for them is flat as a pancake after you have to fight for your life like that, you have to have it again and again or you start dying off.

Simply stated ..no doubt,You do not see those mountains in this region /coastline/planet Haa.Man Andre..you are the ICB of Long boarding Those are heart breakers and border line Cgi beast's.That is some serious drowned you and submerge your boat s!!!.waves.Shanes a legend and leaves all we know by the roadside.

wow.. Name thread Brah.