20 Best rides

[channels]

Just found a link to a site documenting the 20 best rides of all time. I'd heard of many of these but only ever seen a few of them on vid.

http://www.surfline.com/20/September/v0 ... ture09.swf

Enjoy!

[2nd Reef]

^^^ Mate that used to work at Billabong has a wallsized poster of that in his living room. The photo's taken right at the moment AI's board slips a bit sideways, just before his fins bit in. Incredible photo.

But for mine it's gotta be #17, Garrett McNamara getting a haircut by the lip at Jaws. It's a 60 foot wave yet he was just centimetres from obliteration.

Nice words too NC, gave me a few goosebumps while reading it. I'd be interested to see what waves made the short list. Brocks ill-fated drop at the 1990 Eddie? Surely that was the biggest wave attempted.

[still here]

nice link

[dunnc]

nice link

I know, it really made me sit back and think, you know, really think :?

[wanto]

hmm ... pretty sure i've had a few better waves in the last 2 months than that superbank pit. a couple of sus calls in there imo.

[Hano]

The majestic Tom Curren.
The style master.
watched the replay at least half a dozen times

I'll have the conditions in Jarrah Tutton's segment please.

[channels]

hmm ... pretty sure i've had a few better waves in the last 2 months than that superbank pit. a couple of sus calls in there imo.

Better than three barrels on one wave and only having to just stand there?

[mustkillmulloway]

i vote shaun and mr's shared wave at off the wall as no 1

i find lists like that pretty stupid anyhow

rather than " the best rides of all time"

there more , the easiest doccumented

[Nick Carroll]

i vote shaun and mr's shared wave at off the wall as no 1

i find lists like that pretty stupid anyhow

rather than " the best rides of all time"

there more , the easiest doccumented

Maybe read the intro, which defines it a bit.

A great ride changes the surf experience for more than the rider. It can't be one of the greats if there's no witnesses.

Think you're underrating the Jarrah Tutton wave btw.

[mustkillmulloway]

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Maybe read the intro, which defines it a bit.

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ok..yes...i was frothing over the footage....negelated the writting

and i do agree with the great rides are spread by word mouth far and wide

i still remeber people frothing over some wave curren caught in indo mid 90's on a little fish :?

never saw any footage....but i still think it gave the fish movement a kick along

[wanto]

fong:

and rings - hedgey's pit at the same place is better....

[Kunji]

Here are a few top 20.



Brendan Newton


Mike Stewart


And I remember this wave some stand up dude got. He had a beard and he was out Pipe, straight leged G-turn around a huge section, perfectly comfortable. Mad dog or someone??? Help us out and post the pic.

There are a few more bodyboarding milestone bombs as well. Tim Jones Wiamea Shorey '93, "Mikes Cavern", Tamega "death roll" out giant pipe in the '94 pipe comp etc..

[AZ]

Here's a few of my favourites
Randall Paulson - Pipe 2005
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=s1z_agL4hic

This Mark Matthews one is pretty nuts...
http://www.surfline.com/video/video_pla ... 769&mv=ncl

And a nice boogie board one during the pipe comp in 2007 (love the bottom turn to set it up)....
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=AxSBqArmr0c

Hard to beat the Laird wave though....

PS Coops - crazy shot of Rawlins - is there a sequence you could post?

PPS Not an individual wave, but this clip from my eyes won't dry is worth a look...http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSgUPKNG2 ... re=related

[SAsurfa]

Here's one that I never get sick of watching..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbV546QZKoE

Look at Timmy Curran's last wave that starts at 1:10, he picks off a bomb, draws out a bottom turn, sets up the barrel and just stands there

Love it!

[Nick Carroll]

^^^coops's post shows the real weakness of "top-20" lists -- they get dusted by what happens next.

Been a few rides in the past three years that'd take out spots in the top 20 today.

[monkey]

I've got a couple:

- Occy's sould arch at Pipe in the 84 (?) Masters
- Thronton Fallander's Stormrider Barrel and cutty at Nias
and just about every wave at Mexico Search event

[Kunji]

^^^coops's post shows the real weakness of "top-20" lists -- they get dusted by what happens next.

Been a few rides in the past three years that'd take out spots in the top 20 today.

Nick do you know the stand up one im talking about? Late 80's - early 90's Pipe. The guy has longish sandy-blond hair. Pair of shorts. He is standing tall bottom turning around a huge section at Pipe. It is etched in my mind.

[wanto]

coops, you might mean kye fitz and if so that was a closeout.