Brazilian skateboard pioneer Bob Burnquist has got things pretty well figured out for himself. A huge house on a beautiful sprawling hillside, complete with a organic food farm and custom built mega ramp. Not bad.
And when it starts to rain? Bob even has a backup plan for that. Mega ramp surfing. No word from Billabong on whether this will be an accepted entry into their XXL Big Wave Awards. They never said anything about the wave moving, did they?
Bob Burnquist surfing Megaramp from Finnished Skateboarding on Vimeo.
And when it wasn't raining....
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Bob Burnquist's XXL wave entry
By: Janos Palko
Channels: Surf, Skate, Outdoor
Tags: Bob Burnquist
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"Record" for Largest Wave Ever Ridden Trivializes Big-Wave Surfing
A return to old-school measuring techniques is in order
Consider two representations of two very big waves, below. The first is a photograph of Mike Parsons at Cortes Bank. The second is a video of Garrett McNamara near Nazare, Portugal. Now take out some measuring tape and make the distance of one foot between your hands. That's the amount, according to the Billabong XXL committee, that McNamara's wave is bigger than Parsons's wave.
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