Big Wave Tour Says No-Go on Mavericks

A couple of days ago, the WSL Big Wave Tour comity was close to pulling the trigger, lifting and waving the green flag for the Mavericks Challenge. Ironically tho, they kept those flag wielding hands firmly by their side pulling the plug because it was “too big”, lol. Mavericks, if you’re not a surfer you probably have a scene out of Top Gun banging in the back of the head (a single tear rolls down my cheek thinking of Goose *sniff*). But for the rest of us with salt coursing through our veins, we think big, REAL BIG waves!! The crown jewel of Half Moon Bay, Northern California’s notorious slab has created a few myths and Big Wave Tour dreams as well as cut a few surfers’ lives short. Forming part of the official competitive big wave calendar, Mavericks has no time for sissies. However, due to its evil step sister like character, the moving building of a wave rarely gets perfect to welcome professional surfers. But when it does, hot daym it’s a thing of beauty. Too big was probably a scapegoat term, the wave was large no doubt, but the wave conditions were more likely the contests downfall. The wave was […]

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