On Tuesday, I got an email with the subject line “Hideous” and a link. The message came from Chris Dixon, the author of . He's reported on big-wave surfing for publications including Surfer, 国产吃瓜黑料, and The New York Times.
The link went to a video called . In it, surfers drop into big, dark waves that begin clean, but suddenly break at points all the way up the face, like steps exploding out of the side of a wall. There's a lot of dramatic wipeouts, many of them caused by the steps. Filmmaker Dave Otto made the short from footage shot at Storm Bay, off the coast of Tasmania, Australia.
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