You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy.™
Jumping off the roof of a 9 story building -Driving a race car down the side of a cliff – Rocket sledding over Niagra Falls on a plank.
That’s essentially what Garrett McNamara did recently when he surfed over the lip of a 90 foot wave.
Cameras from the beach capture this unbelievable feat. The surfer looks like a popsicle stick figure as the jet ski pulls him into position.
There’s no way a surfer could paddle out and catch this wave in the conventional manner. That would be like metal trying to paddle through a super conductor.
So the surfer hitches a ride behind the jet ski to get up to speed. At the last second – as the wave suddenly swells into a water mountain of unequaled proportions, the jet ski driver does the smart thing and hauls ass to safety.
Not McNamara. He sling shots like a crazy roller derby skater into the pipe and lets gravity do its job.
The wall of water is formidable, like a liquified mastodon, charging the beach, forming angrily, growing into a force of moving energy.
And there, through the frenetic fury of it all, McNamara is glued to his surf board, riding, like a NASA test pilot, rocketing down the face of the wave.
The surfer has stones. If he is scared, he doesn’t show it. If he were a poker player, he ‘s ALL IN. There is no do over or time out. It’s a one in a million shot and he’s gambling with his life.
The video shows him racing down the wave, the white foam, like an angry hand trying to snatch him off his board and pound him into oblivion.
He even has a surf cam. Spray and spit and water exploding all around. He is flying on a jet stream of crazy, riding into the belly of the blue beast.
This video is totally rad, and maybe the craziest thing you will ever see a human do.
Check it out from the comfort of your easy chair.
Hang 90.
And that’s crazy.