Super Bowl Sunday
Narrabeen | 7 September 2008 | 5-6 ft E @ 12s
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Given the huge crowd and number of double overhead tubes popping up along the banks you would be forgiven for thinking you had been teleported to Hawaii’s North Shore rather than The Gardens. Unsurprisingly, this session quickly became known as Super Bowl Sunday a relatively short-lived session that totally ripped.
A keen, skilled band of surfers took on these towering beasts generated by a long period easterly swell powered by an east coast low sitting off the Central Coast of New South Wales. Additional assistance was provided by decent banks and a favourable offshore breeze.
The crew made it look super-easy to get shacked - it was not - as well as equally easy to misjudge the take-off, end up on the wrong side of the lip and be pile-driven into oblivion.
A person surfing on a large green wave at the beach, with sunlight reflecting off the water.
Surfer riding inside a large green ocean wave
A surfer riding inside the barrel of a large green wave at the beach.
A person surfing inside the barrel of a large green wave at the beach.
A surfer riding inside a large green wave on the ocean.
A person surfing on a large curling green wave in the ocean with white foam and sunlight reflecting on the water.
A person surfing on a green wave in the ocean on a sunny day.
A person surfing on a large green wave in the ocean with white foam and sunlight reflecting on the water surface.
A person surfing on a large green wave in the ocean.
A person surfing inside a large green breaking wave in the ocean
Surfer riding inside a large green ocean wave.
A person surfing inside a large green ocean wave.
A person surfing inside the barrel of a large green ocean wave.
A surfer riding inside a large green wave in the ocean with snow-covered ground in the foreground.
A person surfing on a large green wave in the ocean.
A person surfing inside the barrel of a large green wave in the ocean.
A person surfing on a large green wave in the ocean with white foam surrounding.
A person surfing inside a large green wave in the ocean.
A person surfing inside a large green ocean wave.
A person surfing on a large crashing wave in the ocean
A person surfing on a green wave in the ocean, mid-air after falling from the surfboard.
A surfer falling off a surfboard inside a large wave with the crest breaking and white foam
Surfer riding inside a large green wave at the beach.
A surfer riding inside the barrel of a large green wave in the ocean.
A person surfing inside the barrel of a large green wave at the beach.
A person surfing on a large, green ocean wave.
A person surfing inside a large, green ocean wave.
A surfer riding inside a large breaking wave at the beach.
A person surfing on a large green wave in the ocean.