Waiting For Big Wednesday.....: Tuesday 22nd....The Swell Increases and The J.O.B. Freak Show Takes Centre Stage.

Well, it just keeps getting better, and today was something else again.

JOB.....who is JOB you may very well ask. When I say he's a freak, I mean that in all the best ways.
Obviously the surfing fraternity will know straight away who he is but the rest of you will be left wondering.
Jamie O'Brien is a local rider who grew up here on the North Shore. He likes to push the envelope I suppose you might say, experimenting and trying new things in the water....seeing where the boundaries actually do lay and what is and is not possible out there in the surf, big and small. For me, I like watching his antics in the bigger waves.
Last year I shot him out at big pipe working on a two board approach to wave riding. Two boards you say !
Yes...actually riding two boards on the one wave. Yesterday when I saw him paddling out I started keeping an eye on him out in the lineup wondering what was coming. Then through the lens I see him paddling into a sizeable Pipe bomb and yes, he did have a spare board tucked up under his chest. He's obviously got a caddy taking a spare stick out for him, like I said before, I watched him paddle out and he only had one board with him then.
Anyway, the photos below will tell the story..
There will be heaps of good images from today but I will be a while getting into them.....stay tuned.

Pushing the boundries like I said. One anhialated Costco longboard and the ridden shorty still intact.

Below is a selection of other images for this same day.

Above....Balaram Stack at it again.

Above....A bit of free falling on the Pipe Giant Drop.

Above....A sponger going for gold.

Speed Bump.

Above....A very very nice place to be.

Above...Takayuki Wakita, pulling out and spotting that the last wave of the set that he just rode was the biggest, and cursing the fact.......he likes them big this guy.