Behind The Scenes At The 2023 Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational With Mark Healey - Heat 2 

Your performance at the 2023 Eddie will be talked about for a long time Mark. You no doubt inspired a lot of surfers across a broad age range with your epic charging on that day. Inspiring to say the least..

My Vote Was definitely Mark Healey. Great Surfing Bud, you Rock it. Eddie would Approve your charged Level Bro.

one of the greatest days in surfing history. congratulations on third place!

CONGRATULATIONS 🌊🏄🏼‍♂️❤️🔆🎉🌊‼️ TY for sharing this ePic daY 🤘🏼‼️

Phenomenal surfing Mark. I honestly, thought you were going to win the whole event. Congrats on getting to the podium (3rd place is awesome!!) and winning Airline points to keep the surf adventures going!! ✈🏄‍♂🌎 One of my favorite parts of your vids aside from the surfing, was the amazing comarederie between all the surfers. Including Michael Ho who is such a wonderful human being so humble, kindhearted and still charging BIG waves & Pipe. plus he looks so youthful still. Beautiful family Mark. 🌊🌺

Mark you are the Real deal soul surfer. & just straight up a nice brudah & i can see you are a family man with a beautiful wife & daughter , keep doin wut u do & the way you do it & youll be Blessed in this life. & Dude you air dropped in on some full on waimea Mountains 👊✌️🤙

Outstanding performance just plain Iconic. Great show,,,,Bravo Bravo 👏

Very very special !!

By far the best edit of the Eddie contest I've seen; wonderful to watch and congratulations charger, God bless you and your beautiful family.

Fierce Charging, ultimate

I thought for sure you were in the top with all the bombs and waves you were catching in both heats. I was on shore when Luke hit one of his 10.0 rides in the first heat so I knew he was going to be the one to beat in the end of contest. You couldn't see the surfers if they were on a wave from shore in the middle the surf was so big, but sure as shit you could tell the waves were bigger than I had seen or remembered from the 2016 Eddie. The 2016 was just as exciting and pretty memorable because Clyde was surfing his last contest. Those guys took extra care to be sure he wasn't going to get hurt in the water that year. It was great to see Michael Ho out in the mix to show everyone you can still do it at 65. Both contests lived up to the Hype of what it is all about. It's nothing other than the biggest surf party in world to honor Eddie Aikau. Where else do have a bunch of crazy friends get together to surf the biggest waves in the world with 40,000 people watching you have the time of your life. To get in is like winning the Golden Ticket to Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory. Congratulations to being in one epic contest. Hoping you will have some steam in the tank to win the next one when it comes time.

Good Stuff ! Congratulations you were Charging

Mahalo for sharing … and stating how you have never seen the bay like this … folks always say historic about lots … however, looks like this swell was in fact historic in so many ways … a big congrats for being part of it!

mark healy what a champion, best backhand in the Bay!

I don't think I could love this video anymore... Great job capturing the emotion and feeling of that day...

I've been meaning to respond to this contest somehow, considering how perfect things went down, so I'll leave one here. I was watching live and had to leave right after you caught the seriously big one, Mark, forcing me to miss Luke and JJ's next heats, but what guys did seemed... just perfect. God was with you all this contest, I think, I was just proud to be there watching live. Aloha Eddie 2023 surfers.

Go mark go!!

Been looking forward to this one for a while, I can't say much more than many others already have, epic stuff and some amazing rides.

Congratulations, amazing to watch you charge out at maxing Bay amazing

By far the best video I've seen of the event. Fantastic edit of the heats, great music. Your chats with the other legends were awesome. Thanks for sharing your inside look and insights for the day. You charged hard and surfed amazingly - seeing you go on that closeout was unreal! Historic performance.

Congratulations Mark! 👏🏻🌊👍🏻

love this!

You killed it Mark. In my heart, you were the winner. In my head, Luke was the winner. Beasts! ✌

Best Eddie behind the scene video by far.

Big, heartfelt, congratulations! Love seeing a goofy place so high at that crazy wave! Epic day that will be talked about forever!

Man, I wish you would've got that one set. So crazy. 🤙🏽

Love the culture in Hawaii. The sense of community and respect for each other and the land and sea.

Amazing day, great behind the scenes insight, such a humble guy.

Thank you for this video Mark and congrats on your 3rd place! Really appreciated your insight on the Eddie and especially on the heavy sets!

Cool video No hype, no ego, no bs, all positive and amazing! Congratulations!

Congrats Mark! CHARGED like always! So pumped for you!

Mark, You are a LEGEND!

Awesome video! Congratulations on your third place finish. Long live the Eddie 👍👍

You're such a Champion 🏆! Hold your head high.

Beautiful Thanks for sharing it and congratulations!! stoked!

Congratulations MARK! Mahalo nui loa for a great video! thanks for sharing and making my EDDIE experience even better

Always a class act Mark !!

what an epic show. you surfed amazing. charging close out Waimea is nex level. water Safty has come along way and Luke so deserved the win but in my mind you are all winners who participated/suvived da event. aloha

Great Job Mark, representing a 808 waterman and man of Hawai’i nei very well. Balancing culture, family and passion ✊🏽🤙🏽

Dude That was Sick. Nice Rides!!!

Love the behind-the-scenes views Mark you allow to stand right with the boy's. Congrads on the 3rd place finish making us all proud with your performance.

Mahalo for sharing your day with us Mark. Amazing performance and a mind blowing Eddie contest. You guys set the bar really high for the next one. Aloha

Mark you surfed so great! Thanks for making this cool video!

Humble. Great man.

The best Mark 💣💣💣💯💯💯

This was an epic recap, thanks for this! Well done

Hard charging much respect Mark your dedication shows with how well you surfed and your wave selection. Epicness legend status! Aloha

Mark congratulations, thanks for sharing all the energy and for giving us the best perspective, even though I though you won, I have to say that leaning about Luke makes the event very unique and I am happy for him and for everything he doea for others at Waimea. You are a legend, thanks for posting again

Well done, True waterman.

Legend… Beast mode times 10!! So sick!

Great video! Beast mode!

i can feel the vibe from here!

Such an awesome video. Great stuff.

Mark Healey won it

Mana!!absolute beast🤙🏾🦎

Absolutely mind blowing performance in round 2. It is so good to see how much fun you had just playing with the beast

Awesome

Mark, Such an inspiring video. Absolutely love the transparency and reality. You are a very amazing athlete as are the guys and gals whom competed and live in your incredible location. Thank you for documenting this and wanted to say both wife and I watched and she loved it (she surfs too!). You are a rare amazing athlete with skills and gifts that few have. Best part is your family is awesome. Keep documenting man. God Bless you bro

Backside + Eddie-sized Waimea? Wild.

Congratulations bro!!!!

Great footage!

Legend

Hands down ,that was the best surf contest in history ,,anyone agree?.

your performance was top tier! amazing surfing!!! so stoked for you!

Great big wave surfing Mark! 7:00 if you could have successfully made this wave, there would have been no other option for the judges than to award you with first place, in conjunction with all your other great rides this day. But the fact alone that you attempted this says a lot, you wanted it.

🔥🔥🔥

insane , we had fish by the road last march in the dark with all the families, so stoked for you

Mark Healey, incredible watermen - so humble, what a legend " Eddie would Go" 🤙🦘

Second heat, was waiting to see you go left just because you’re a madman!

A goofy foot getting 3rd is insane. Healey and Landon McNamara were blowing my mind with their critical backside takeoffs.

Yewwwwww yaaaaaaa Healy

my favorite performance............

Well done my guy

u da man mark

Your surfing during the event was world class by today's psycho standards. I was hoping you'd win but stoked for cool hand Luke.

i wish id known that when keone downing was giving us sponsorship we should have been there. thank you mark. i gave you a hi five at the womens club in carp. oreo was there for sure!

Badass !!! The swell showed up that day

For trying to connect with the left, makes me think that Mark makes the difference with Luke, who didn't try even if he had the possibility. For the spectators it's very special to see that connection with the shore break and that makes a difference. Both surfed bombs but my winner is Mark Healey.

Healey is multi-disciplinary gnarly.

The only participation ribbon that is immortal.

I don’t know the wishes of the Aikau family or why Quiksilver isn’t the sponsor anymore, but this event really needs a major sponsor. I also realize just surfing in The Eddie is a great honor in itself. However in 2004 the winner received a check for $55,000.00.

Geez, surprised nobody died out there. I was the guinea pig watercameraman out at the '85 Billabong Pro. Paddled out with my super 8 in Greg Weavers old waterhousing in my back pack. I had never shot Waimea before. Got lucky. Only had to scrape over one close-out set. Never really got caught. This day it looked like non-stop close-outs. I never would have ventured out in this shit!

Best goofy surfer ever

Congratulations Mark!🎉 By the way, whats that song playing at the end of the video? Really love the vibes its sending.

Thought you had the W.

What is that beverage u were pushing, like what is in it

21:34 Billy. I love you now.

Fuk yeah Mark🤘🤘😁

Anyone know the song the band played at the end? Is it an original or a cover?

i think i still have access to a b. kana'i'apuni, that i had to fix the tail after breaking it, sunset gun

PRIMED AND PROTEKTED!

I thought the award speech was a little odd - where are the female surfers? And also, the way first and second place was announced was awkward sounding/unclear.

oreo is building a new place at backyards as a new spot since his place behind haleiewa is too much too young

guns of navarone

I thought you should have won.... Im glad Luke did but I thought it was u

I thought I wanted to go see this even but they need to put a cap on how many people can go. Just out of respect for the locals and the island itself.

Horrible MC

Why is nearly every surfer tatooed? It looks so crap....

They could have at least gotten his name right. It's Shepardson. And the other surfers setup a venmo to increase his prize money. It's at venmo@Luke-shepardson. Go donate if you think he should have won more. Had to add the hyphen to get the name right that's the edit