The Shipstern horror show - video
How big is too big at Shippies? Well, this big is too big.
Last Thursday Shippies maxed out on the sets. It undersucked, it tripled-up, the bottom just kept falling out of it, and yet the Tassie lads - nutty as they are - still went for it. Rusty Bierke was also in the mix - not from Tassie, still nutty.
This clip by Dave Otto shows a whole lot of wipeouts. Each one of them singularly gruesome, yet a special mention must go to Danny Griffiths who eats shit three times over. Fella has nuts to his knees but Shipsterns is no place for a backsider. Might be time for ol' Danny to start switchfooting out there.
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Oh-Em-Effing-Gee!
No thanks.
If Cape Fear is called "Ours", Shippies should be called "Leave it to them..."
Pretty astonished that a whole heap of serious injuries or deaths haven't been occurring from the way people have been charging of late. (Ours, Jaws, this here, the right, any swell of recent really).
Couldn't agree more. It's amazing really. The human body can take quite a thrashing both on land & in the water. Luck plays its part too surely.....
That is just ridiculous. Those dudes are way hardcore.
Call me a cynic, but there's definitely more arse than class in that clip.
the guy on his backhand deserves a medal for bravery!
"the guy" not even a worthy replay to put his name to it? Danny Griffiths is his name.
Great clip
Barrels within barrels!!
Really!
How does a wave do that?
As for how serious injury is avoided, I have no idea. How deep is the rock shelf they are breaking on, how is that no-one has smashed head first into that shelf?
I can't imagine the pressure. I've been pinned to the sand on 4' beach break and couldn't move for a few seconds. Literally. What does that do?
Back problems on the way boyz even if obvious injuries are not occurring. Can be a big and long price to pay for a few seconds of glory.
Shoot a bullet into water and it loses most of its speed within a few feet of the surface. So a plunging human often won't penetrate far to hit bottom. Also pressure waves probably push off the rocks pushing them away and the current sweeps around. I surfed Banzai on the central coast once and wiped out right in front of the shelf and thought I was in big trouble. A few seconds later I was around the shelf in the bay dragged to safety by the current.
A wave that surges over super shallow or exposed rocks or reef may be more dangerous.
Expect the reef would be well covered in weed and kelp and much deeper than it appears, guys are absolutely crazy though, sooner or latter someone is going to break their back or drown.
You can have that!!! give me a 4ft beachie any day hahaha
er.......might just rest up after the walk in and the old shoulders playing up a bit today, you boys hit it and I'll be straight out when you get a couple.
You can hit the bottom out there Brook Phillips was the most recent I think. He ended up with five broken ribs and a punctured lung a month or so back there are pictures on his instagram of the aftermath. He went through a nasty ride on the ski back to the boat ramp and then a chopper ride to hospital and as bad as that was he was probably still lucky it wasnt worse. I dont know how far these guys can keep pushing it before someone really comes unstuck.
"You can hit the bottom out there Brook Phillips was the most recent I think."
Nah, Brook only grazed the bottom...
Mark Mathews also knocked himself out there and hurt his neck.
5m deep is the problem , it needs global warming tides to help
Yeah thats the pic stu just a little graze! every bump on that ski ride must have been hell.
You'd be dead if that was head first. Bring back the Gath for prevention.
Slab conditioning....