Massive Mavericks - Big Wave Surfing - Biggest swell of the year hits California - 12.28.23

Giant swell hits the coast of California causing flooding and destruction. Meanwhile a large group of surfers take on Mavericks in Half Moon Bay, California. This was some of the biggest swell numbers we've seen for Mavericks. After almost missing my flight I flew over after filming Jaws the day before. Not knowing what to expect as the day before at Mavericks had extreme south winds and stormy conditions. Got up early and it was massive. We all knew it would be a tow day. The cliff was packed with people as water was going over the break wall and swamping people all day. Jojo Roper caught the wave of the day. Luca Padua stood out as well on one of the craziest waves from the day. Andrew Cotton got towed into a monster that clamped on him. Bianca Valenti had an insane wipeout that resulted in a 20 second hold down and popping up right before she took the next wave on the head. And Kai Lenny and Lucas Chianca surf giant mavericks like it was a small day. Enjoy this video from an Historic Day at Mavericks.
Filmed By
Tucker Wooding
Tim Bonython @SURFINGVISIONS
Curt Myers @PowerlinesProductions
Yunes Khader
Jamy Donaldson
Frank Quirarte
And My childhood film idol Johnny Decesare!
@poorboyzprod

[@surferted8]

Please don't stop with the edits - and a huge from the heart thankyou to all the contributors - what a great 9 minutes!

[@danbaker89]

Hey mate. Love your video. Also your music choices are far better than the majority of surf edits on KZbin nowadays. Bring back the tunes 🙏🏽🔥🏄🏽‍♂️ Yew!

[@benkettle9958]

So sick! 🤙🏽🇦🇺 Jojo's wave was insane and Kai's just on another level!

[@kelmerlopez497]

What an amazing footage and soundtrack!!!! Congrats !

[@korelick8411]

All of these folks are super talented, but Kai Lenny made these waves his b*tch! BLOWN away

[@donaldwilson5693]

Phenomenal drone photography!!! With all the different POV's you use, I think it gives viewers a much better feel for what Mavericks really is. Kai Lenny looks like he's playing on those waves.

[@ruralangwin]

The best !

[@kdevinturner8778]

For sure. He looks and acts like a little kid playing in a bathtub, but on an extremely large scale. Amazing athlete.

[@ci5809]

Amazing footage!! Thanks for sharing

[@roses044]

Kai’s ability to generate speed is unreal. He was the only one able to carve out there while everyone else was just trying not to die. Overall great editing with some unforgettable images. I like your use of slow motion. I know it’s harder to grade colors from different sources, but some closer matching might have made for a little tighter watch in some spots. Music is always controversial, but I personally found the vocals distracting. I liked your last short video with just the sound of the ocean a little more. Maybe that’s just me. Terrific work from an epic session, glad you were there and shared this with us.

[@wilburkookmeyer024]

Like it or not, aside from me, Kai is the best surfer in the world right now in big waves. It makes sense though, He had Laird, Kalama and myself to learn from, competed and succeeded in just about every sport on the ocean that involved a board, his 360's are really just adapted from windsurfing. I'm teaching him McTwists now, he should have them down by the end of the season

[@Queensizemusic]

Yeah, the soundtrack was line sitting at home listening to the fridge buzz. Dreadful band. They were awful when that record was released, and the track has aged even worse over the years. I could only make it through half the video as a result.

[@ChristyKSweet]

The music sucked. I call it whiney guy crap rock- ruined it I had to mute .

[@JoePubliktv]

He’s not afraid of the pocket 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@matthall472]

He treats those waves like 4fts lol. Luca was getting in there tho

[@NicolasCliche]

Raised my hands in the air a couple times! Good video, great sesh!

[@AndreUchoaUSA]

Beautiful cinematography!

[@richnez2721]

How do they manage to stay afloat with such balls of steel??? Beautiful swell.

[@BudaKhan420]

Kai Lenny is like the one guy out there having fun… the rest seem to be just trying to stay alive. Kai is surfing with no fux given.

[@kdevinturner8778]

Joe Satriani: "Surfing with the Alien". Some just better than others.

[@kdevinturner8778]

Is Kai the only human with eyes in the back of his head? I wonder.

[@devadaspillai7355]

Thank you! Thank you! For documenting so vividly and providing these absolutely terrifying views that I will never dare attempt in a 1000 years! 🙏🙏

[@I_am_Junebug]

Great edit. I normally prefer the sounds of the sea but the music was cool. Does anyone know if Bianca Valenti is okay after that intense wipeout?

[@benneebean8199]

Amazing footage. I'm surprised this channel doesn't have more subscribers.

[@ChristyKSweet]

crappy music ruins the vids- so sad.

[@earthwormandruw]

@@ChristyKSweetOne man's crappy music is another man's vibe.

[@kdevinturner8778]

Special people doing special things. Including the producer, Tucker. Amazing and thank you.

[@kdevinturner8778]

Some real superhumans at Mavericks. Can't and won't describe my feelings. Wow and powerful. Thank you for this beautiful video.

[@JerryNordstrom]

You guys are all awesome! What Huevos to be in the water this past week! Thanks for the great videography!

[@iblong9505]

Best edit I've seen in a while. Great job. Thank you

[@kdevinturner8778]

Preparation. Surfers and machines are off the charts. So much respect for all of you. Lovely

[@kdevinturner8778]

Those maintain ace guys of those ocean machines are heroes. Special dudes doing special things for special surfers. A symphony of synchronicity with each other against a big ocean of nature and danger.

[@kdevinturner8778]

Everybody there is finely tuned to minimize losses. Appears that way. Dudes of dudes in my surfing uneducated mind. Power, strength, hard work, and grace.

[@user-rz7uz1ww2c]

Incredible footage and perfect song choices. Cant imagine getting GodSmacked by one of those waves

[@kdevinturner8778]

A beautiful Orchestra between man, big waves, ocean machines, and God.

[@scorchedearthdj]

Top notch video!

[@surfdek]

Superb! 🔥

[@kdevinturner8778]

All in to run together. To run in the right places. Sometimes not easy. Somebody wins, somebody got wiped. You are picture books. Kai is phenomenal. Altogether, boats and all.

[@johntresemer5631]

Wow. Thanks. 🙏

[@JosephWilsonProductions]

Well done.

[@Killemgrillem00]

Fantastic.. Will Scuden with the lip on the head. Must be pretty nice to have all that water rescue !! Surf hero's at Mav's.

[@kdevinturner8778]

Kai is an artistic animal. Nuts too.

[@kdevinturner8778]

Those mechanics of the ocean machines are the best.

[@kdevinturner8778]

Kai faces danger in flip flops. Superstar.

[@michaelltnv6741]

WoW got to love life! Kai, you're just playing with her. Thank you!

[@kdevinturner8778]

Grounding. Guys are amazin. Cheers.,

[@kdevinturner8778]

Orchestra of competence and meritocracy.

[@srf2112]

That is incredible footage in tough conditions. Overcast, flat bad light and it still looks great. Nice work photographers.

[@PowerlinesProductions]

Epic 🔥

[@RasX144]

Sick footage and was waiting for this day to see via video. Mavs poppin as usual when the pulse is rt!

[@heartsky]

Kai Lenny is on another level.

[@jzkramer]

Did you get soundtrack advice from Tim Bonython? LOL

[@kdevinturner8778]

Subliminal.

[@kdevinturner8778]

Powerful, skillful, reliant, dangerous, and elegant.

[@kdevinturner8778]

Those guys are nuts.

[@kdevinturner8778]

These brave souls' live music in their hearts. Only way they survive.

[@kdevinturner8778]

Scary. Superstars at work.

[@kdevinturner8778]

All involved know their stuff. An orchestra of survival.

[@kdevinturner8778]

I just busted an eye. Epic.

[@RustySurfboardsTV]

Yeah Jojo. Hammer!!

[@pako4857]

@2:30 LUCA'S wave 🏆W.O.T.Y. 🏆

[@kdevinturner8778]

Pacific can be a big slap in the face. Great surfers and conditioned humans to match. Love this video. A symphony.

[@kdevinturner8778]

Truly Beauttiful.

[@kdevinturner8778]

Now that is a splash.

[@kdevinturner8778]

Hard working men. All around.

[@kdevinturner8778]

Bad ass dudes.

[@fergferguson7370]

30 yrs I lived in HMB.. the wave never changes just the surfers…I must say everything gets better..

[@paciphish]

Imagine that ride, big balls surfing

[@ClownFaceSurfChannel]

7:03 is a nightmare scenario!

[@kdevinturner8778]

Pacific Ocean, I know not country. Somewhere between San Fran, CA and Santa Cruz, CA. Those guys are rock solid. All.

[@scottgaffney7879]

So sick! As more people mess with the pocket and tickle an over-vert wall like Luca Padua at 3:28, it seems like we’re really setting up for some dramatic upright-over-the-falls space launches in our future.

[@rodneysmart9774]

Padua really pulling the power in the pocket. The edit didn't give those maneuvers enough credit. IMO

[@tomascorrigan3975]

Good to see Pete Mel out there. Hope for us older guys.

[@kdevinturner8778]

Taking the good with the bad. Studs.

[@kerensky33]

practice makes perfect

[@kdevinturner8778]

Special people doing special things.

[@kdevinturner8778]

NASCAR and Formula1 all in one. Amazing.

[@surfish4112]

Can't go wrong with Tucker!!!

[@kdevinturner8778]

More balls than brains. Fantastick.

[@robo5877]

Nuts

[@kdevinturner8778]

After I got out of that mess I would be so happy. Missed the snake bite. Too cool for school.

[@kdevinturner8778]

Water cold too.

[@kdevinturner8778]

What bad ass dudes look like.

[@earthwormandruw]

I'm curious to know how far off shore are they?

[@rohitjanjihavlogs4860]

Mja kri gya meya😂🥰🥰🥰

[@kdevinturner8778]

How they do?

[@kdevinturner8778]

Not many warriors left like this, maybe never were proportionally. Lucky us.

[@johnsongibbs6567]

It looks like Portugal and Hawaii made their way to California.

[@kdevinturner8778]

Sattelites say so.

[@kdevinturner8778]

When I grow up I want to be an NY Yankee shortstop and a big wave surfer.

[@kdevinturner8778]

No doubt on a big wave.,

[@bobtowery8266]

Agreed no fear fie Kai

[@kdevinturner8778]

Iam happy when they are happy. Those guys are built like Fred and Barney in a quarry. Tough as dirt in the tough surf.

[@kdevinturner8778]

Kai. King of the Orcas.

[@kdevinturner8778]

Fun for them. What they live for.

[@kdevinturner8778]

Great White Shark breeding nearby. Left town for that week.

[@rodneysmart9774]

Luca Padua doing critical things in crucial places, very torquey, very thick, very vertical. Also: Fink is riding a skimboard.

[@kdevinturner8778]

Water doing its thing and it has no feelings. Goes where it goes.

[@kdevinturner8778]

Wishes and dreams.

[@kdevinturner8778]

Nature meets men who are strong enough to meet nature. Symphonic.

[@kdevinturner8778]

Shit is real. Fantastisk.

[@kdevinturner8778]

If I was kid back in day. I would have Farrah Fawcett and Kai Lenny on my small 3 sided wall.

[@kdevinturner8778]

Western Pacific is a little saltier and more corrosive than at the phone buoy in the Eastern Pacific. Still only costs a dime 10 cents.

[@kdevinturner8778]

Ms. Sissels appetizer bell. They will be coming home. Hopefully.

[@kdevinturner8778]

What a well run industry looks like. All for 1 and one for all. Cheesy but true.

[@Hopster1]

Luca Padua at 3:25!!!!!!! WTF!!!!

[@kdevinturner8778]

Those sea machines are better than Maytags back in the day. Repairmen under wraps.

[@kdevinturner8778]

Big wave surfers and crews have no time for edits. Nature on them now. They are dudes of dudes.

[@mickz22]

4:40 casual Kai 360

[@kdevinturner8778]

Jealousy such a lovely word. No disrespect to Mr. Billy Joel.

[@kdevinturner8778]

Dangerous.

[@kdevinturner8778]

No whining or crying in this situation. Men are men. All best to the best.

[@kdevinturner8778]

Men of titanium.

[@kdevinturner8778]

There is a God.