Bodysurfing Mavericks with Kalani Lattanzi - Mavericks Awards 2023 

For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. You see, we all have sinned, and have broken God’s law (The Ten Commandments). Wrong doing deserves justice and must be punished (just like how a criminal has to pay for the crime they have committed) but God saved us from the eternal punishment of our sins by sending His Son Jesus Christ, fullness of God in flesh, to pay the penalty for us by dying on the cross and resurrecting, so that we may have everlasting life. Now for you to accept the free gift of grace, you must repent of your sins and put your faith in Jesus Christ and Bible says that His Blood will cover all of your sins, you will be forgiven, saved from eternal punishment, and be given everlasting life. By faith you will receive the Holy Spirit, become born again and He will transform your heart and clean you from the inside out. Turn away from sin, read the Bible, pray for the Holy Spirit to fill you and change you, obey the Word. Much love and God bless you!

Raised the bar? Created a completely new category

@@tapeworm6093 Kalani's PR Team is in a completely new category for Bodysurfing. There's been three people known to have bodysurfed Mavericks prior to KL. He's not currently the frontrunner, in terms of performance.

@@anotherworldviewispossibleok. Where are those people? This dude is legend already.

@@HighDefinitionVideo One of them was a friend of Jeff Clark's... And apparently, he did it in Speedos. So he earns the Iron Man title. He probably rode it at around the same size as KL.

Lets get this straight. This is not body boarding. For that he has to lose that tiny board in his hands. He has to do this all over again.

damn straight! this is NOT BODYSURFING!!. lose the board@@mariellarojas8562

How to handboard on Oahu in 1979: 1. Check for a south swell. If there is one, get ready to rock. Make some phone calls. 2. The next day, get up at 5:30am. Pick up your buddies. Head out on Kalanianaole towards Sandys. 3. Before you get there, stop at McDonald's, order a McBiscuit, eat it in two bites and steal a couple of plastic serving trays. 4. Arrive at Sandys. Smoke out if that's your thing. Get barrelled too many times to count using your stolen Mickey Ds tray as a handboard. 5. After the session is done, each buy manapuas from the truck at the side of the road. Head home.

Thank you for sharing!

@@steveperreira5850 You're welcome.

He was the first to bodysurf Mavericks, Jaws _and_ Nazare. There have been others to BS each of them. I bodysurfed Mavericks 20 or more years ago, (with no board.) A little smaller than that, but not much. I got my quota of 3 waves. It was a rush, but you don't get a long ride. I've surfed scarier breaks.

@@TheTurbster You should try riding Mavericks at some legit size, then. In the video it looks to be about 12-15', which is technically breaking, but not by a whole lot. If you get caught inside when it's 20' or bigger, you may start rethinking how scary it is. I know of one guy who got bounced off of the bottom, hard enough (while duck diving) to earn a Helicopter ride. Luckily there's a great team of watermen keeping an eye on folks, and making rescues on the Jetskis. But if you're injured and stuck in the pit - there's not much that anyone will be able to do for you, unless you're at the surface, and they have the opportunity to grab you. I guess Jeff Clark didn't notice or hear about your adventure. As far as I'd heard, I was the second to do it. #3 got some severe trauma. And I thought Kalani was #4... But as it turns out, a guy I know had ridden it at minimal size a few years ago, with a handboard. So that made Kalani #5 - but now #6. Still... It's a pretty exclusive club. If you do the math, and figure like 120 Billion people on Planet Earth, all-time... And that 6 people have done it... Well we're all in a percentile with a letter "e" in it, according to the calculator on my phone. The thing that makes Mav's so rad - is that the left is a makeable, wide-open, spitting tube, at any size that mortals would dare to bodysurf it, given the right conditions. If you watch people Bodysurfing big waves at Waimea or Pipe, the Canaries or Nazare - you don't see much in the way of clean exits and ride aways. The waves are just too fast and long (or too mushy, and not perfect enough, over on the shoulder). But that left bowl at Mav's will spit you right out, from deep, because of the way that it sets up. Surfers are going so fast, that it's usually over for them, by the time that they get to the bottom of the left. But it's the perfect shape and speed for Gigantic Wave Bodysurfing - and it's followed by a clean, open face, if you want put in some turns and spinners, as you run in towards Sail Rock. The video from Nazaré didn't make me want to hop on a plane. His ride at Jaws was much more impressive, and he did manage to make it out of a frothy cement-mixer of a tube... But that was with a fairly oversized handgun, pulling him through it. Kalani is a great waterman, and certainly deserves respect... But the accomplishment level at Maverick's, so far, hasn't matched the hype levels, from what I've seen. Frankly, I think reliance on the Handboard was holding him back in this video. Instead of hanging high in the Tube, on his side - he winds up dropping down too low, and dragging his dick, on some waves that I think he could have made, using a technique more suited to the situation - just with bare hands, or training paddles.

I'm pretty sure there have been other BSers to ride Mavericks. Judith Sheridan, for one. But most BSers I know aren't into publicity. We don't have publicists following us around. The day I was out was also a solid 12-15', but as you say, you need the right conditions. There was a crowd out for the rights, and I wasn't alone on the lefts. As for scare factor, I've surfed over 112 breaks around the world, and size doesn't matter as much as water depth. Smaller size means shallower water. At my home break, the saying goes, "if you don't bleed here, you don't surf here." I've been in the hospital twice, and both were in small surf, (less than 6' waves.) @@anotherworldviewispossible

Who was "Redwings"?

@@eganc1976 Bodysurf legend Glen “Redwings” Whitford (RIP) He made a board called "Redwings Cleaver" and I copied one out of Teak in 1982 and have used the design ever since. You can look him up. There's a Point Panic Contest with his name.

Child-in-older body, this puber of 28. No wonder so many adult issues in Brasil unsolved.......

He's a master at bodysurfing Puerto Escondido. He comes down here very frequently.

@@jimbojunk must get closed out on ..I don’t think he would have the speed to get out of the barrel.

@@jimbojunk must get closed out on ..I don’t think he would have the speed to get out of the barrel. That’s what I see there… punta I see guys there all the time. …but Zicatela…much harder…

@@Mexicantours I hear you, most Zica waves are too fast to make but it's definitely possible, even without a handplane.

@@jimbojunk yep… I used surf zicatela, but I’m 62 now, not as flexible..been living in Puerto for 12 years no… I enjoy punta when it’s big, way out there, bailout when it turns into the beach break… I’m always impressed to see those body surfers out there swimming around .. well anyone when it’s big. Hate it when there’s only a few way out , and your the last one on a set…knowonw to watch out for you.

Bruh bodysurfing came before surfboards were even invented

For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. You see, we all have sinned, and have broken God’s law (The Ten Commandments). Wrong doing deserves justice and must be punished (just like how a criminal has to pay for the crime they have committed) but God saved us from the eternal punishment of our sins by sending His Son Jesus Christ, fullness of God in flesh, to pay the penalty for us by dying on the cross and resurrecting, so that we may have everlasting life. Now for you to accept the free gift of grace, you must repent of your sins and put your faith in Jesus Christ and Bible says that His Blood will cover all of your sins, you will be forgiven, saved from eternal punishment, and be given everlasting life. By faith you will receive the Holy Spirit, become born again and He will transform your heart and clean you from the inside out. Turn away from sin, read the Bible, pray for the Holy Spirit to fill you and change you, obey the Word. Much love and God bless you!

did bodysurfing just show up on Tik Tok or something? That's usually when people think something new has been invented

I've been doing this shit since I came out the womb - this man's doing nothing other than sucking your mudda

​@@jesusisking3814 Why are you here? In the name of your God more people are killed than in WWI and WWII together! The only thing that dies on a cross and was resurected was a constalation! But that happens every year!

poetry brother, preach! can't say it any better than you did. thank you!

About as close to god as you can get.

This is surfing not bowling ! What video did you watch ?

​@@adambane1719It's a reference to the "bowling balls" between his legs. Does the help?

Bodyboarders surf waves surfers can't even surf so them surfing mavericks not a big deal

​@hoshpakamies5643 looking forward to seeing you do it beavis.

@dougdavis8986 I'm not saying it's easy, I'm saying disrespecting bodyboarding is stupid bcos they surf waves surfers can't even get on