2.09.2006

Maverick Cograts


Congratulations to South African "Twiggy" Baker for the upset win at the 2006 Mavericks Big Wave Surf Contest. There were a lot of 40-footers and the 6-8 wave sets were pretty tight and dangerous (naturally!).

If you want to see it on TV, NBC will broadcast it on May 13.

There are a few decent writeups on the contest, if you look around.

3 comments:

  1. Anonymous11:31 AM

    That wave looks, um, different from the waves in your own picture...

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  2. Anonymous11:31 AM

    How are surfing and poetry related for you anyway?

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  3. Um...anonymous...there really aren't any waves in my picture. If there were, I would be out there wiping out repeatedly and eating sand. As it was, it was a glassy morning, and I thought it best to take pictures rather than just stay inside.

    As for the "surfing" and "poetry" thing, they hold a lot of interesting relationships for me. At root, surfing is something I aspire to do in every activity--whether trying to stand on fiberglass in a chaotic ocean, trying to order words and metaphors into interesting juxtapositions, or trying to present ideas to students who want to cut their own path across a shifting and seemingly chaotic world.

    For the record, I'm not a good surfer--I'm only a dilettante. That's part of the reason I admire the insane surfers who can take on monster waves or dangerous surf like Pipeline.

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