Imagine peering over the lip of a massive, warping, monstrosity of a wave. It dwarfs your rig. It threatens you, questions your sanity with its gaping maw of a tube. It forces you to reconcile whether you are ready to be plunged into certain oblivion. If it deems fit to spit you out on the face and not the reef you may experience the most joyous expression known to man – a four-hundred-metre, down-the-line rollercoaster ride of sweet bottom-turn-to-cutback combinations.
(This feature originally appeared in the August 2013 issue of Windsurf Magazine. Print and digital subscriptions for readers worldwide are available HERE. You can read about and view images from Scott McKercher, Jason Polakow and Philip Koester’s Cloudbreak sessions in an article from the same issue HERE.)
Story Tommy Cohen & Matthew Cohen // Photos JOHN CARTER
