Nazare open day - video
Pe'ahi, Mullaghmore, now Nazare: all the northern Hemi big dogs are howling and baring their fangs. This moody little edit was shot October 21st and 22nd when the back banks at Nazare tipped the first icebergs of the season.
At this size filming Nazare gets tricky, there's so much spume and mist in the air from the previous waves it obscures the riders behind. Occasionally all that spray grabs your attention so you shift your sight to what's going on inside and the thought of being caught in there horrifies.
...and then you see old mate Marcos Monteiro at the 2:40 mark eat it on the first wave of a set and you wonder about life choices.
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am i the only one who wants to see them ride it into the shorey?
To watch live on a big day would be one of the greatest shows on earth.
How's Maya's airtime at 1:42. Crazy.
With the aid of the heat analyzer to edit the lulls I find even the lefts at Peahi more incredible to watch let alone the bowls and barrels of the right that the assembled crew were charging in the WSL comp the other day. Obviously the Nazare deal is incredible also as the numbers of people headed there must attest...... just doesn't transpose as well I guess on footage. Live is always another matter but again, Maui looks like an oversized Sunset and the way the guys are really surfing it as opposed to the Nazare skim just doesn't seem to instill the awe of Peahi. Each to their own, but like scrotina has asked, do others want more than Nazare seems to be able to throw to us keyboard jockey vultures?
I know it would be an incredible spectacle live but I find videos of guys towing in at Nazare now as boring as batshit to watch.
And I found the Jaws comp an incredible spectacle to watch live....not that I saw all of it but the very first thing I saw when I tuned in was Ian Walsh's semi when incredible big wave tubes were being ridden all over the place.
That was mindblowing to watch.
Reckon if they could get some decent water footage of Nazare, maybe a ski sitting off the left and towards shore, it'd help us appreciate it.
Hard to get a grip on the size and intensity, even the speed, when shot at a distance. Especially when the wave shape is so foreign to what most of us know.
Always gonna be a whole diff experience than Jaws, and whatever happens at Naz it'll be hard to beat a day like they just had for the comp.
Stunet
Reckon if they could get some decent water footage of Nazare, maybe a ski sitting off the left and towards shore, it'd help us appreciate it.
I find myself asking why is there no footage from the water, the answer I come up with I think people might realise that Naz isn’t as big as they report 100 ft?, maybe 50-60 ft, if you look how it breaks with the lip, it’s looks halfway down the face, is that really the bottom of the wave?, with the footage been shot from high up & afar , possibly an optical illusion??, so many Questions. Either way it’s big & interesting .
About a year ago, Peter Mel posted a short grab he took with his phone from the back of a jet ski.
And that aint no optical illusion.
Maybe it's just the blue water .......