Since the big swell hit Skeleton Bay two weeks ago we've been waiting for the footy to surface. We had a teaser with Matt Bromley's mix but here's the real deal: Benji Brand with a quarter mile speed burn down the point. The wave works up a head of steam after the 30 seconds, hits powerband around the minute mark, and goes into hyperspace somewhere around 1:30.
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Close, but I think this one by Kalani Chapman at Cloudbreak is still the best ever shot on a Gopro
Eerie almost sci fi un fucking believable.
To point out what is already obvious to anyone who's used a gopro it's actually about a 45 second ride (the replay is in real time). Still bloody amazing considering most of my videos last about 6 seconds....... better stop comparing before i get performance anxiety
as for gopro vids here's a nice wipeout at shipsterns:
Mesmerising.
That just about sums it up - mesmerising. That last deep section when he's low on the flats and it's pitching wide is amazing; he's in perfect trim, there's no water drops on the glass, and everythings in focus. Don't get much better.
Two thumbs up from me. Awesome
That's where it is at right now. All time, amazing!
How's the smile on his dial after that one !!
More tube time there than all of Victoria on a good weekend .
Incredible. So deep on that bigger section.
The speed he has is incredible in that last deep section. imagine that!!
After making that super wide/clean double spit barrel that last section seems to grow into a super shallow sand-dredging monster, lucky he got through it and could get off the wave.
Incredible!
Love the spit in the last section - could almost feel it.
Mental. Well done Benji.
Words cant describe . But i wonder how his brain may have been affected , mine would be
Hey Caml spewing you didn't have a go pro on your head during that Tombies mental pit that's floating around the net. The view from inside that thing would have been fucked up
Camel , I was going to post a photo of you on THAT wave on here but was not sure if you maybe wanted to keep it just for yourself.
Think I would retire after that wave. Geez its going to be busy next swell. This video is on every surf website in the world plus every surfer posting the shit of it on fb
Also I think Camel's tombstone barrel is just ridiculous. Please tell - but how far back in the barrel are ya???? If you freeze at 11 seconds the lip is staring to throw 25 feet in front of the board.
Mick . That swell had guys coming from everywhere . Two W-Oz lads I know flew there for that swell 5 days in and out . ! Keen !?
Best surfing thing caught on any type of film in the history of surfing.
Alls i know is that in indonesia a couple of times my brain blew a fuse because of such deep long tubes . Honestly could not even remember my own name for a few days afterwards. The tombys barrel was a mere section in comparison, but i could not see anything but snow as i entered the tomb from behind . It was all due to experience that i emerged. But really it doesnt compare to the one palm camel & potts long jump comp
One palm, Caml....? You rate that eh....? Backhand or is that your forehand....?
That namibia tunnell is for sure going to give u amnesia
A wave like that could wreck your life.., post euphoric disorder.
Haah ped a new mental health disease
Onshore hit over there guys with you two on here, haha!
Yeah craig wat to do its 40 knot onshore ! Read swellnet surf the net
Welly i said too much info sorry. Nothing is longer than namibian deserts
The innermost limits of pure fun has just been one upped
VIMEO : Diamond of the desert.
15 mins long if you happen to be at work ?
Here it is Udo: www.swellnet.com/news/swellnet-dispatch/2014/08/12/diamond-desert-video
How's that first wave!?!
Best inner tube vision yet?
Has to be, he's in the barrel the whole fricking time! Benji was in and out a couple of times. Amazing.
Is there any way of working out how long the barrel is in real time?