Bodysurfing Mavericks with Kalani Lattanzi - Mavericks Awards 2023

Old guy who used to body surf the wedge for years. Still go watch. Never lose your eye for it, just your body!!

Salute 🫡. Beautiful soul. Favorite part of this video is his tribute to Mama. All my happiness is for you Mama. 🥰🌎❤️☮️ 🌊

Some people raise the bar and kalani is one of them . Legend in the making.

Fantastic! I mostly surf, but I love bodysurfing too. My friend and I used to bodysurf Pipeline years ago. I maxed out at 6' but my friend bodysurfed 20' Waimea Bay. So you know, you can bodysurf those waves too! On a side note, my friend told me a story of a massive hold down at Waimea that ruptured his eardrums, so... it's definitely serious out there. I really loved to see this video, keep going!!!

Mahalo Kalani for sharing and setting the bar.

I salute anybody who surfs Mav's in any way! He was so close to making it out of that big one. Crazy drops...so fast! Big up Kalani!

I really do love to watch these guys. There's just something that's just really natural and astetically beautiful about it. With the addition of the little hand board or womper or whatever it is has really taken this to another level. RLTW 3/75

As someone who started bodysurfing at the age of 5 (not that seriously of course), I just want to say that surfing those waves (and with Nazaré so close) is still a dream, which I won't give up.

This guy is a wild man. Respect. 🙏

Come back and bodysurf it again this winter Kalani!

Orgulho do rio de janeiro! Cidade exportadora de casca grossas. Segue a tempestade brasileira!!!

Awesome.

Infectious positivity!

congrats dude Mavs only for legends, beautiful honour to your mum

Watching Mark Cunningham and Redwings out at big Pipeline 40 years ago made a real impression on me. That impression of course was to stay the hell out of there. Love bodysurfing small barrels, but God....the beatings on the big ones are brutal. This cat is next level insanity- that ride at Jaws was legend.

You are effing bonkers brother........ Respect .... Mad respect ....

Fin teathers bro! Fin teathers! Amazing!

Incredible

Maximum Respect!

I bodysurfed a 16' shoulder at Black's, travelling 100 yards in & 100 yards right. Unlike this guy, I had a smaller wave blade on each hand. I used them to stiff-arm the water and plane on it, lifting my head and shoulders out of white froth, so I could take in the visual beauty of the ride, as well as the tactile ecstasy of my body at one with the rolling marine hillside. It was the ride of my life. I even got a "hang loose" sign from a surfer paddling back out who got the perfect view of me dropping in on that triple overhead face and flying past him on the shoulder. Which is unheard of, as surfers at Black's are invariably pricks about sharing the best breaks with bodysurfers (and Maxi Pad Cowboys). So that was an extremely rare show of respect. I didn't want the ride to end, but it lasted so long that I eventually fatigued, lost my concentration and relaxed one of my wrists ever so slightly, causing the wave blade to go under and taking me pearl diving with it. The shoulder was still a fast, powerful 10-footer by that point, and I got thoroughly rag-dolled. Thankfully Black's is a soft sand bottom, no rocks and no reef (the break is due to a canyon). I'll never forget that day. The joy one experiences on the shoulder of a big wave is unlike anything else in the world.