It's only run eight times in its thirty year history, the last time in December 2009. Here are the images from the last time Eddie went.
It's only run eight times in its thirty year history, the last time in December 2009. Here are the images from the last time Eddie went.
"The size will definitely be there - approximately 40-foot wave face heights - but strong, adverse winds out of the WSW are a major limiting factor," said event organizer Glen Moncata, citing recently issued weather and ocean reports.
In surfing, as in most physical endeavours, the boundaries of performance creep, rather than rush, forward. Just as Olympic world records are ticked off by mere hundredths of a second, so too are the criteria for surfing - higher, faster, deeper - broken in increments.
The exception to this rule occurred over the course of one hour in January 1990.
