Nathan Fletcher wins the "Ride of the Year" at the 2012 Billabong XXL Awards
Nathan Fletcher has conquered the “Ride of the Year” at the 2012 Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards, in Anaheim, California. The “Oscars” of extreme surfing have been finally delivered in a packed and stoked Grove Theater. The “Biggest Wave” champion was Garrett McNamara, who rode what is considered by many the biggest wave of […]
Nathan Fletcher has conquered the “Ride of the Year” at the 2012 Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards, in Anaheim, California. The “Oscars” of extreme surfing have been finally delivered in a packed and stoked Grove Theater. The “Biggest Wave” champion was Garrett McNamara, who rode what is considered by many the biggest wave of all time , in the famous Nazaré canyon, in the coast of Portugal. “Three huge lumps appeared on the horizon, we picked the biggest one and Andrew Cotton towed me in,” recalls McNamara of his monster wave off the town of Nazaré, in Portugal. “I remember dropping and dropping, then punching it off the bottom and wanting to get up into the tube, but it just exploded and landed right on my shoulder and felt like a ton of bricks”.
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Nathan Fletcher wins the "Ride of the Year" at the 2012 Billabong XXL Awards
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