W0W congratulations Ben,monumental achievement,fookn awesome to you and your team. Did Martin Vari ride a bigger wave at Jaws a left about 3 to 5 years ago can someone confirm please.
Yeah Im sure Jeep are paying but that would be for their ad campaign (Im sure we will see that sooner or later) but free airtime on prime time news!!! thats is GOLD.
And re the wave size quoted ???
When has any 'wave size quoted' not been controversial. Thats is always the way it goes.
Whatever the size U reckon it might be - its an awesome bit of footage.
How is this for a different perspective. Ry told me about this session a few weeks ago and I have been hanging to see it.
I am in Beijing for work and just drove past the Bird's Nest Olympic Stadium and because Ihave an hour in the car I thought I would see what was happening on Seabreeze.
Now I am spewing Because being in Beijing I can't click the link to see the clip because YouTube is blocked in China.
Ben Wilson he bad man!!!!!
Stolen the thunder on the previous biggest wave kited? (in 2007)
I don't know how people do this stuff. It's just incredible. Someone once told me it was "just like anything else that you build up to" and I reckon that's probably true, but only up to a point and then it's a code brown no matter how experienced you are.
Amazing.
The video works against the sponsor though: I'd rather be kiting than sitting in a ditch replacing a steering assembly.
Step 1: Kite an friggen awesome monster wave
Step 2: Release the footage inside an advertisement
The time has come to...
Galvanize!
Dont hold back...
If you think about it too much, you may stumble, trip up, fall on your face...
Don't hold back...
You think its time you get up, crunch time, like a sit up, come on keep pace...
Don't hold back...
Put apprehension on the back burner, let it sit, dont even get it lit...
Don't hold back...
Get involved with the jam, don't be a prick, hot chick, be a d!ck....
Don't hold back...
yeah it's a big wave, but the kiter doe's not even drop down the face. He is out the front of the wave the whole time. The first wave kited on was more legit. IMO the windsurfers make that vid.
sebol said... Where is rowdy? no comment??? is Ben legit?
Are you mad! I can't believe you require Rowdy's approval. Take a bex & have a good lie down, son.
Nope mate,not requesting his approval, just wondering why we didn't get the usual coat of bull %hit and criticism of people who probably kite 50 times better than him on the basis of:
camera angle not good enough for Rowdy Tarantino
Subject is hooked in and therefore not worth displaying
He has straps so it is a poor effort (although in this instance Ben is unstrapped)
Useless as kiting is gay and wake boarders are way more advanced
and finaly my favorite, subject is not legit under his own undiscosed criteria
I was just wondering where the above video fits in????
I also really enjoy getting red thumbed by his army of little followers so I allow myself a couple of stabs per month in a vain attempt to save him as I am deeply concerned that his over inflated ego my cause a brain aneurysm some days.
^^^^^^^
Fair call, I woul kill for a spell check on Seabreeze, I use to write up in word, spellcheck then paste in Seebreeze but I am getting older and lasier (lazier?)
This way you also get the untamed raw version without any rework or the opportunity to tame down my argument
Also, unfortunately I wasn't born in our great country neither did I set foot on my promise land for 21 years (gosh I would have surfed soooo much better!!!) so I will await your 400 word essay in a foreign language and will endaevour to rate your effort.
