KATIE MCANENA
It’s all a blur really. I was being cautious and staying on the shoulder and watching how the guys were approaching it. It took me about an hour before I finally managed to drop down the face of a decent sized one, it was by no means the biggest of the day, but for sure the biggest I’ve ever ridden. The main things I remember are the speed required to make the drop, that the wave is phenomenally fast and also the views of the cliff face in front and the boat in the channel. And mostly I remember just smiling and being super happy and super focused on not wiping out.
Thankfully and luckily I didn’t encounter any wipeouts personally. But I will never forget being just about to launch off the rocks and watching Antoine Martin take the gnarliest beat down I’ve ever seen in person, right in front of me by a steamroller of white water. That kid took a serious thrashing.