Massive waves are a fascinating thing. In a way, they display many of the things we surfers universally appreciate about surfing them, like Mother Nature showing her teeth in her most dynamic form and the opportunity to watch only the bravest and most gifted of us all play around on them.
There’s also the fact that XL days are given to us — whether to watch in awe or surf — on rare ocassions. The right conditions come together. The right swell direction. The right interval. And then there’s the added expertise of a select few who know how and when that perfect stew will come together to make giant surf.
Spain’s Illa Pancha is a wave that doesn’t get as much pub or as much action as a certain neighbor to the south with another particular familiar feature on its headland (we think it rhymes with Bazaré…), but the much more fickle slab-like wave sure does know how to put on a good show when things come together just right.
