Jamie Mitchell's day at Mavericks - video

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Jamie Mitchell talks us through his day at Mavericks when he rode what some are saying is the biggest wave ever paddled into there - and then critiques his wild ride on replay that night.

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Blowin Saturday, 17 Jan 2015 at 7:18am

Made me feel crook in the guts watching that lip land fair on his head. Even he can't see how it's possible to survive.

If you could bottle the courage required to do that you'd be richer than Gina.

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simba Saturday, 17 Jan 2015 at 7:42am

My my heart was in my mouth watching Jamies wave and seeing that heavy xxxx section in front of him was scarey,boys got balls and seems to have luck on his side,going to need it though doing shit like that.

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caml Saturday, 17 Jan 2015 at 8:32am

thanks for this article & acknowledging jamies achievment .

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zenagain Saturday, 17 Jan 2015 at 8:49am

Jamie is a madman. Just isn't afraid to go on anything. First that crazy wave at Belharra last year and now this monster. He might make one too one day.

Joking!

Guts effort.

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Rabbits68 Saturday, 17 Jan 2015 at 11:41am

Wow. Amazing skill & courage to get that far on that wave, then chopped in half!! Love his humble description of his flogging, big smile. Classic....

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kerry1 Saturday, 17 Jan 2015 at 4:22pm

Well done Jamie what an experience!!!!!!Big Wave but someone tell me why some of these guys can't get onto the face further along by taking off pointing down the line, You will get a lot of air underneath but if you are prepared for that and make the drop you will find yourself ahead of that lip that hit him square on the head.??? I don't know every wave at Mavericks seems to make the surfers all want to make the drop first then it seems to beat them before they can even get high in the wall?? Got me bushed. A different approach to the take off maybe ????? Paddle HARDER???? Beats me.I wouldn't surf the place too much effort and 200% guts is needed too crowded in on a wave like this and if I did I don't think I would enjoy it.

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udo Saturday, 17 Jan 2015 at 4:40pm

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goofyfoot Saturday, 17 Jan 2015 at 7:30pm

Yes Kerry!

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syril500 Sunday, 18 Jan 2015 at 7:46am

"Paddle HARDER". Try telling that to a ten time Molokai winner. Arguably there has never been a better paddler than Jamie Mitchell.

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caml Sunday, 18 Jan 2015 at 8:00am

haha ha yeah hilarious ! ' decade of dominance ' a feature film documents jamies 10 molokai paddle victories . would love to see that . anyone seen it , any good ?

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geoffrey Sunday, 18 Jan 2015 at 8:15am

pure gold

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cjt101 Sunday, 18 Jan 2015 at 9:19am

Onya Kerry. Yours will be the only advice I follow the next timeI 'm paddling into my local.

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johnutah Monday, 19 Jan 2015 at 8:30am

How good is being an armchair expert.

Especially when the video is in slow-motion...

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southey Tuesday, 20 Jan 2015 at 12:35am

Yeah Kerry .....
I'm with you , Jamie clearly needs to get to ' Lincoln and start doing Squats ......
I mean imagine how good a paddler he could be if he was like 110kg and watched alot of NFL videos ....amasing ;-)