In snowboarding you never call last run. Calling last wave sounds the same!

that board looks so money

I was telling people it's the roar of Mavericks waves. You don't need no music

SWALLOWED..

wear a helmet dingus

Aqua Fence seems to be great at aq[ua]ward

Damn Jeff is a saint

This was narrated perfectly! Seeing those jet skis makes me emotional. FN angels out there!

so so scary

Heavy! Mind games at its best. Ian’s a veteran. Cool hearing his take on it. He almost had that drop.

Im bad about that.using the lords name in vain.

Ur showing ur age with Gregg knoll.i remember too.

That long 12-14ft.gun saved his super late take off. But very great ride and surf experience. Anybody else,very little chance.

“I gotta ditch this board”.

Lived in that area for years, the waves are literally like giant buildings moving through the ocean. Really scary, but used to watch Jeff Clark paddle out, sometimes solo and paddle into that wave. Bought a few boards from him to surf the small stuff. Any of those people that surf this wave are just incredible athletes with nerves of steel!

I've surfed some 20 + at Tourmaline in Pacific Beach...which was an ankle knocker compared to this Maverick giant.

Any one here still amazed in sept 2024🎉

Everybody the lip hits, feels it when it's 3 feet thick. NO MORE BILLSHUTTING. JUST MAKE SURF VIDEOS OR DON'T.

I was surfing back in the late 70's and early 80's and without one of those floater suits they wear now. The one that has a rip cord and blows up your suit and brings you to the surface. That's what saved this guy because without it, he surely would have been a goner. I rode and crashed on a ten footer and I almost drowned it pounded me so hard and kept me to the bottom and I couldn't surface. After that I gave up surfing on anything of that size. Seeing these waves on video do not do them justice and seeing a body of water this size is terrifying. However, the thrill of riding it out for so long is one of the greatest feeling you can ever have. I thinks it's like sky diving and floating thru the air for seconds is like riding that big wave for seconds but feels like the longest time ever.

Ian Walsh is an absolute legend man, i don't know why we don't see more of this guy. Total trooper!

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I’m over here thinking I’m surfing sky scrapers with 2-3ft waves 😂😂. These guys are fucking nuts!

Next to the kitchen is the canting keel structur...

Here I am thinking he has multiple broken bones and maybe a broken spine... then he mentions he was intentionally trying to save the BOARD the whole time ?!

These big wave surfers are a different breed.

Sometimes you gotta take off straight and stand on back vs taking off at an angle if it’s gonna be an air drop. Haha look at me commenting and I don’t even know how to surf.

Got smacked down at surf city nc last week. Wave was like 5 foot. I got too nose heavy when I stood up and the nose caught. I flipped forward right as the wall came down on me. I got bent like a pretzel. My neck and back popped in every vertebrae. I cannot imagine that size of a wave pounding you.

watched and listened to this ledgend descirbe this beating 4-5 times......

Maverick’s, is definitely one of a handful of world’s WORST big wave wipeout experiences you can have. THE place that terrifies me the most from observation, (never surfed it) is “SHIPSTERN BLUFF”……YIKES!!

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That’s Mental strength and skill combined. Awesome determination Ian Welsh

We used to go way out there at Stinson Beach; a cold, violent place. In 2010 I got so beat up by a wave, like a metal bat hitting my back, that I got out and have never gone back in to this day.

On the plus side, no big coral heads to hold you under.

God was with you!

His detailed account of what he was thinking second by second is what makes this so scary: its too real.

FAHHHHHHHHH!

OMG I’m glad he made it through

I love how descriptive surfers are

He should not have said "worst beating in my life So Far". Glad you aight!

What the hell did I just watch!??!

I want to see what the drone sees.

I think in most people's book you made the wave you just rode it underwater at the end. But you definitely made that wave and the fact that you live to tell the story may it make you a ton of money.

Kinda wish there was q back story on this drop. Or get the drones vid

Big waves

Dang Dude!!!

Ahh Nature clipping those wings, Beat downs are good, It reminds us to respect boundaries. As an extreme sports guy myself, You survive something like this, you take it as a serious warning to adjust your shit.

Most non surfers have no idea how tough surfers are. Most people think that UFC fighters, gang bangers, Bikers, etc are tough. But most of them would never survive a beat down from a solid 5-6 ft wave. I don't think any non surfer would've survived this beast.

most people have no clue just how powerful waves can be - I have been hit by a 2m VERTICAL WALL of water that blotted out sun and sky - I had never before seen water literally standing VERTICALLY upright rushing straight for you - it was a freak wave - when it hits - it feels like you are getting hit by a truck - you have no power against it - tossed around like a rag doll - these waves here are FAR higher than that so just multiply that experience by 1000 -

to sum it up - uh - you RISKED the Drivers life and YOUR life for the cost of a SURF BOARD ???? - got it

Maui Legennd!