His body was found that night ... had only recently learned to surf when he found himself in the lineup at Mavericks and wound up getting worked. “We were trying to get a shot of us paddling ...

Mavericks Surf Ventures was born ... Training with Ian Walsh: Building mind and body to take on the biggest waves The main problem, say insiders, is the organization’s utter lack of transparency.

Surfing at Mavericks had been a decade-long dream for ... A kayaker aided in the rescue as Ord put Trette’s seemingly lifeless body on a “sled” he was towing. “I actually thought he ...

Of course his body isn’t what it once was ... But more than that, Clark believes that surfing Mavericks provides a service of sorts. If the drive that led him to paddle into the wave that ...

And he is ready for Mavericks, the legendary surf contest timed to the optimal ... He adds, “You need to feel lots of air in your body, light.” He will wait on his choice of surfboard until ...

Pro surfer Garrett McNamara experienced a fall like that firsthand Thursday at the renowned Central Californian big-wave surf spot Mavericks ... wave before his body goes violently skipping ...

A big-wave surfer at Mavericks is essentially an ... fast enough that a wipeout will make a body skim like a stone in the avalanche. Other surf spots “are Disney World,” Washburn says.

Healey's full body launch earned him a nomination for ... Mother Nature was not stoked on the annual Mavericks big wave surf contest this year. Winter sends the largest Pacific swells to ...

“Everything inside my body broke when the lip ... “Those guys today — that was big-wave surfing.” There have been other impressive events at Mavericks, such as Virostko’s close victory ...

Frank Quirarte, a member of Mavericks Rescue with 30 years of experience at the legendary surf spot ... it just reverberates up your body” and created some of the “biggest barrels ever ...

HALF MOON BAY, Calif. — The wave roars like a dozen cannons as it climbs four stories high, casting the few bold enough to surf its crest into a teeming pit of frigid, shark-filled ocean.