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Why We Watch Maverick’s Videos

Why do we watch videos of Mavericks?

Excellent question! I’m glad you asked.

To start with, we watch videos of Mavericks to see people surfing in the ugliest weather and most unimaginably vile water. I want to see clouds that invoke images of judgement day and dark grey/green water hiding sea monsters or maybe something more innocuous like a great white.

Next, and even more important than the first, is big, big surf. Surf that makes you cringe in fear for both the surfers and the people on the jet-skis. Waves that make you think that Poseidon is trying to teach all of us mere mortals a serious lesson for riding his waves. Steep drops and a brewing nasty inside filled with rocks and piranhas at Mavericks help to remind us we are not wimps for staying on dry land when it is triple overhead plus.

Lastly, which incorporates the first two points, we watch Mavericks videos for wipeouts. Wipeouts that make us take deep, long, fresh breaths because we aren’t being held down by three successive waves while dodging rocks, fighting sea monsters and avoiding piranhas.

Yet, this video is none of these things. It is a bright beautiful sunny day in Half Moon Bay. The water is clean and inviting. All vileness and danger has been siphoned out of the ocean in this video. The drop is steep yet makeable; the wave is still sizable but the shoulder is almost nonexistent. As unbelievable as all of this is, the crest of unbelievability is that there are exactly 59,237 people in the lineup. I don’t know who shot this video or who edited it, but shots of your boat are as lame as timid Mavericks. And why would anyone think that we want to watch six minutes of myth shattering video of Mavericks?

I like the legend for what it is and want the sea monsters back.

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