Big Waves

by **PapaW** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 1:33 am

perusurf wrote:that first one doesn't look real at all :
see how it just cuts off near the right hand side??? or is it a wave that walls straight up, leaving a straight edge on one side??? no way.......besides the guys wouldn't be facing that way if something like that is coming, and there's no way they hadn't noticed... it actually looks like they're gonna go for a wave...... who are u trying to fool???? :

Its a backwash wave... and yes it is real.

by **perusurf** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 11:38 am

PapaW wrote:
perusurf wrote:that first one doesn't look real at all :
see how it just cuts off near the right hand side??? or is it a wave that walls straight up, leaving a straight edge on one side??? no way.......besides the guys wouldn't be facing that way if something like that is coming, and there's no way they hadn't noticed... it actually looks like they're gonna go for a wave...... who are u trying to fool???? :

Its a backwash wave... and yes it is real.

OK, i didn't explain myself well then, the wave might be real, but that picture isn't, like i said there's no way those guys will be facing that way and not notice what was coming, and don't tell me that that real wave walls up like that, with one side going completely straight up, waves shrink towards the end and are not steep, they dont just finish in a gnarly steep ass wall.....

by **kitesurfer** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 12:11 pm

perusurf wrote:that first one doesn't look real at all
see how it just cuts off near the right hand side??? or is it a wave that walls straight up, leaving a straight edge on one side??? no way.......besides the guys wouldn't be facing that way if something like that is coming, and there's no way they hadn't noticed... it actually looks like they're gonna go for a wave...... who are u trying to fool????
wanna see a really big wave???

that's Pico Alto in Punta Hermosa - Peru, where i'm from...

Whats with all the attitude?

KS

by **PapaW** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 5:09 pm

perusurf wrote:
PapaW wrote:
perusurf wrote:that first one doesn't look real at all :
see how it just cuts off near the right hand side??? or is it a wave that walls straight up, leaving a straight edge on one side??? no way.......besides the guys wouldn't be facing that way if something like that is coming, and there's no way they hadn't noticed... it actually looks like they're gonna go for a wave...... who are u trying to fool???? :

Its a backwash wave... and yes it is real.

OK, i didn't explain myself well then, the wave might be real, but that picture isn't, like i said there's no way those guys will be facing that way and not notice what was coming, and don't tell me that that real wave walls up like that, with one side going completely straight up, waves shrink towards the end and are not steep, they dont just finish in a gnarly steep ass wall.....

actually yes it is... Like i said its a back wash.. it wedges a bit hence the sudden drop off from the shoulder... they are about to catch it into the next back wash in front of it. I should know I've hit it before!... :roll:

by **Dr Rev** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 5:25 pm

Hang on ! Did he call me a :yearght:

Thanks Papw for confirming the photo :wink:

by **perusurf** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 10:12 pm

ok, so.... then what it is.. it's a wave that has just hit a wall and it's about to come back?? that's why it looks like that... and the guys are gonna go for it then, is that what you mean????
there's no attitude by the way, it just doesn't look real, a normal wave does not come like that....
my appologies if someone got offended.....
i still doudbt it though......

by **PapaW** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 10:33 pm

the back wash from the walls/revetmens come back at a slight angle at this particular spot. Thus the wedge effect... Newport Wedge on a big day has a similar effect. except newport its more wedgey that backwashy :p but its long thoese lines...
This particular backwash take a big swell to make it work and when it does its usually accompanied by big winds hence the chop.

Does that make sense?

by **PapaW** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 10:41 pm

ok heres a better example....
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=h8Z6ETB5RLM

by **isaluteyou** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 12:51 am

I dont doubt the legitamacy at all cause i have seen simular senarios with my own eyes. So unless i imagined those conditions i think im pretty confident its legit :wink:

Actually i have surfed a wave backwards before i.e caught the backwash pretty fun, rarely happens though :lol:

been totally thunped by mutant backwash like that as well that wasnt so fun :lol:

by **PapaW** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 8:03 am

isaluteyou wrote:I dont doubt the legitamacy at all cause i have seen simular senarios with my own eyes. So unless i imagined those conditions i think im pretty confident its legit

Actually i have surfed a wave backwards before i.e caught the backwash pretty fun, rarely happens though been totally thunped by mutant backwash like that as well that wasnt so fun

Isn't it just!!! love em' Proper playground

by **perusurf** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 11:17 am

ok,ok,
check this out http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/a ... rtComments

that still doesn't make it true though, it looks as if the white water has been messed with, or you believe everything you see on the papers and media????
i have also caught backwash but not nearly as gnarly as that, besides is not to fun to surf, more for bodyboarders to get launched off of, i've only surfed them to get faster to the point......
any way, that's still not usual, they say it never gets like that..
it's still pretty crazy to go in there, i wouldn't have....or i would have to get the normal wave but not the backwash....
would you????

by **PapaW** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 5:15 pm

Jsut cause you don't like backwashes doesn't mean noone does. I love em to bits so much fun...

Like I said it was a freak weather event. it never normally gets that crazy but I can assure you it IS real.

by **Milo** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 5:38 pm

perusurf wrote:that first one doesn't look real at all
see how it just cuts off near the right hand side??? or is it a wave that walls straight up, leaving a straight edge on one side??? no way.......besides the guys wouldn't be facing that way if something like that is coming, and there's no way they hadn't noticed... it actually looks like they're gonna go for a wave...... who are u trying to fool????
wanna see a really big wave???

that's Pico Alto in Punta Hermosa - Peru, where i'm from...