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The Inertia

Kai Lenny has surfed a ton of really good waves over the course of his life. Huge waves, tiny waves, and everything in between. The thing about surfing, though, is that one is never enough. The search is always in the back of your mind, niggling away like a hungry little rat. “What’s around that headland?” you ask yourself. “I should go and find out.” And sometimes, you score. Other times you don’t, but you can’t have the sweet without the sour, right? Well, Kai got a whole cup of sugar recently.

“By chance we came across a wave that closely resembles my home break of Ma’alaea,” he wrote of the wave above. “It has the potential to be just as good and for sure more consistent. We must investigate!”

Ma’alaea, as you likely know, is also known as Freight Trains. It’s a wild wave that barely ever works, but when it does… watch out. While the wave in the video above isn’t quite as good as Freight Trains when it’s firing, like Kai says, the potential is there.

He left early to go scope out a few spots, and he had something in particular that he was looking for. “The hope is,” he said, “is to find standing-room only barrels. The only way we’ll be able to find out is if we go and explore the coastline.” And explore they did.

 
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