Do you think building your own race car and then trusting your life with it is kind of crazy? Then these guys are really crazy, they are the real extreme sport atheletes, the big wave surfers of Mavericks. Yesterday was the annual surf contest at Mavericks, a wave that takes special oceanic conditions to break about a half mile off shore of Pillar Point in Half Moon Bay, California. Yesterday and today brought the 40+ foot waves to the cold, NorCal waters about a mile from my house. I sat in awe watching these guys drop in on waves bigger than a five story building. The acceleration and compression these guys experience has to be seen to be believed. Remember the wave in the background of this photo I shot is probably over a half mile away! Just the paddle out around the rock field is more than most mortals could handle…
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