Surfers can only mind-surf this wave. Bodysurfers take the drop. But bodyboarders have brought performance surfing to this quirk of nature. This wave is totally intimidating. Being a North Shore break, it really only fires on the biggest of northwest swells.
Some waves have triple-ledges and tubes forming within tubes.
The lip sometimes pitches so far out, that you can take off straight, and still get fully barrelled. The attention, however, was diverted to the shorebreak where Mike Stewart and others were nabbing some ridiculous barrels. It looked like they all had death wishes, throwing themselves into spitting caverns with no chance of escape. Once again, this wave is for experts only. The only reason why there aren't more injuries here is because it is a fickle break, and the volume of bodywhompers going into the Waimea Bay shorebreak is nominal.