Watch: Kai Lenny // The best big wave season so far
Kai Lenny called season 2018/19 the "best big wave season so far" and you've gotta assume he's talking about his own performance, not the quality of the waves. Jaws, Nazare, and Mavericks all had slow seasons, however, when they did break 26-year old Lenny put on a Laird-like show.
This vid is full of so many moments, split-second highlights that on their own could support an ordinary surfer through a lifetime of recollection, that the whole thing could become passe, until, that is, you realise Lenny is doing all this stuff - controlled airdrops, backflips, barrels - in waves that are bigger than most of us will ever surf.
It takes some perspective to comprehend it, especially when Lenny says he's "only just starting to scratch the surface of what is possible."
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2:20....utter bullshit. Who DOES that?????? The sheer technical wizardry of that leaves you stunned. Hard enough for a solid surfer to do on a 5 foot hollow beachy....sheeesh....
Seminal.
Terminal
Synclinal
Supraliminal
Original
Supraliminal? Synclinal?
Fictional !
Upliftical
Nutshellical
Secondthatical
Chuckle
Nutsackical
Gonadical
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocical.
testículos gigantescos
here come the brazilians
roflickle.
Kailennical
Sheesh, no fear there, big grin in the heaviest of waves. Love that freefall tail slide at 3.36.
struth
You can definitely see how he's combining all the board sports.
Snowboarding, skating, surfing all in there.
Some of the soul arch stances he adopts are straight out of snowboarding on a big powder day! We have a saying in snowboarding "riding the white wave" wow this guy rocks it. The high speed adjustment/corrections he makes are something else!
Balls of dragon glass!
shatterable
Magnitude of the last wave!!!
he is the only surfer i rate with jjf. medina is potentially in the group (especially after bells) but i haven’t seen medina surf big waves. kl and jjf look comfortable in anything. kl is pushing big wave surfing in a way jjf hasn’t but might have if he went in that direction. amazing waterman
Oh My Word!
Breath taking stuff!
That is amazing stuff!
What are these mink systems Kai is using on his boards ?