78' wave breaks Guinness record

[legalskier]

....with video of surfer riding it & surf guitar soundtrack:

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Late...-catches-biggest-wave-ever-off-Portugal-video

"I knew it was big, but I didn't know how big," he said.

 

[snowmonster]

I always thought it was a 90 foot wave that McNamara surfed. Respect. I will never ride a wave that huge and that's fine by me.

I was going to ask whether they measured the wave from the front or Hawaiian-style from the back but the article answered my question.

 

[JimG.]

That guy has ballz.