Biggest Teahupoo Ever?

stringcheese

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A lot of the newer rides are bigger, but Laird's was almost impossibly clean and the end of the bowl was as thick as it was tall.
 

$kully

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A lot of the newer rides are bigger, but Laird's was almost impossibly clean and the end of the bowl was as thick as it was tall.
Also at the time the world had never seen anything like lairds wave. We’ve all seen the first code red and so on. Some of these waves may be as big or even bigger, but the scale is debatable. At the time of Lairds wave there was nothing else like it.
 

oneworlded

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nathan and koa both rode bigger waves, imo, but ate crap. that one of matahi's is insane, and probably double lairds, just in mass alone. still, when laird did it, NO ONE had thought of even going, so props to him for that thing.
Exactly. Plenty of waves bigger than Laird's have been ridden there since - regularly. The difference is, when Laird did it, no one even knew it could be done.