Jeff Rowley has paddled into the Mavericks left-hander to become the first Australian to claim the challenge. California’s premier big wave surf spot is traditionally known for its crazy right-hander, but Rowley decided to drive the other way. Rowley has decided to move to the USA during the North Pacific winter surf season and recently relocated from Hawaii to Northern California with bigger swells in sight. The Australian record breaker enjoyed a morning of light winds and uncrowded waves before the onshore wind came up, in very cold weather conditions.Rowley was pushing the boundaries of what was possible at the Mavericks left hander, a task that wasn’t without it’s challenges. “The Left Hander at Mavericks is really heavy – the take off is a vertical free fall into an nasty slab barrel”, Rowley explains. “I wiped out on a monster wave and tumbled down, it drained all of my energy and I didn’t know which way was up”, Rowley stated.

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Jeff Rowley goes left at Mavericks

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