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...Pete Cabrinha had ridden killer waves before, but this time, as he surfed down the face of a giant swell rolling in over the notorious Jaws reef off Maui, Hawaii, last January, he couldn't find the bottom. "It was growing in front of me and growing behind me, so it felt like I wasn't getting anywhere," recalls Cabrinha, 42, a veteran surfer from Hawaii. There had already been 10 "horrific wipeouts" that morning. As Cabrinha was gaining speed going down the wave, its breaking lip was closing in fast from behind. People watching from the shore began shouting...
...surf forecasting in place and the new tow-in technique being steadily refined, the records have started to pile up: in 1998 Ken Bradshaw from Sunset Beach in Hawaii rode the first wave over 60 ft.; in 2002 Brazilian Carlos Burle surfed a 68-ft. swell; and this year Cabrinha reached the 70-ft. threshold. Sharp says storm patterns have been relatively subdued in the past few years, but he thinks that when the next El Nino warming of the Pacific happens, adding 20% to 30% to the power of storms likely to impact prime surfing sites, surfers will have...
Others question whether the pressure of sponsorship and competitions is pushing some big-wave surfers dangerously beyond their abilities. Hamilton, who surfed Jaws reef the same day Cabrinha set the record, thinks he might have ridden some even higher waves. But he declines to enter the big-wave competitions because he thinks they are bad for the sport. "I resent the whole concept of a bounty to try to ride an 80-ft. or a 100-ft. wave. You are provoking people that maybe shouldn't be out there...
...always looking for new ways to ride waves," says Pete Cabrinha of his Maui, Hawaii, surf fraternity. Enter their latest obsession: kiteboarding, a hybrid, extreme sport that is a cross between windsurfing and wakeboarding. A rider is harnessed to a giant kite as he steers a board that is strapped to his feet. The allure: taking off and soaring 50 ft. above the water as you glide over the waves, then perhaps dropping in on one. If that's not enough, copy Cabrinha and invert. "When you're upside down looking up at the kite, time just stands still...
Still, the gang from Maui rules the scene, including the new pro tours. Cabrinha sponsors his own team, which includes Julie Prochaska, who this year was named best female kiteboarder at the World Extreme Sports Awards in Munich, Germany. To complete the circuit, Cabrinha had partnered with sports manufacturer Neil Pryde, who is based in Hong Kong, to create a personal kite line...
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