With the first real big wave swell of the winter smashing into Peahi, the entire surf world had its eyes trained on Maui. The best big wave surfers in the world waxed up their guns, checked their vests, and tried to calm their beating hearts. When the swell arrived, it delivered, and Nathan Florence, as he is prone to doing, gifted us a 25-minute look into what surfing at one of the world’s scariest, most perfect waves entails. Turns out, a lot of beat downs, clean-up sets, and the occasional life-altering wave. Surfing starts at the 9:15 mark, for those of you who don’t have time to watch the hilarity that is Nathan Florence.
