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Red Bull Tai Fu Big-Wave Project

Big Tuesday sees Red Bull Tai Fu Big-Wave Project go off

Surfersvillage Global Surf News, 10 September, 2006 : - - Surfers on the Red Bull Tai Fu tour charged across the globe to surf waves generated by typhoon Ioke. They searched the gnarliest waves the Japanese cyclone could produce, and find them they did.

Aussies Ross Clarke-Jones, Beau Emerton, and Tom Carroll, Brazilian Carlos Burle, and Hawaiian Ian Walsh all spent last week chasing monster typhoon waves. Some excerpts from the biggest day (Big Tuesday) are; -

"Woke up before dawn and found the swell seemed to change direction and it wasn't the massive increase we expected but... we went up the east side and found a different wave - a left with death ledges and some regular 15 footers with a couple of 18-20 foot waves. Some of the biggest waves ever surfed in Japan.

But everyone copped a beating: Jun Jo managed to flip a ski on top of himself, Ross and Beau Emerton both found the ledge giving them an unsympathetic sudden descent, and the chopper pilot lost control and almost went down. After two long sessions we-re all a bit tired but safe (although Jun and Ian Walsh have been giving each other lustful winks after being left behind stranded on a bung ski for an hour).

Tom Carroll said it was the biggest waves he's ever surfed. Genki Horiguchi reckons these were biggest waves he's seen in Japan without the hazardous weather to go with it. So all in all a success - we managed to surf a typhoon for two days and not cop the destruction and shot some great footage.

For more action from the project go to www.redbulltaifu.com.

About the Red Bull TaiFu
In a continuation of his quest to traverse the globe in search of  new  and  challenging  waves,  Australia's veteran big-wave surfer Ross Clarke-Jones wants to harness the energy of a typhoon in Japan and surf it.

Ross  has assembled some of the most experienced tow-in surfers  on  the  planet  including  two-time  World  Champion Tom Carroll, Brazilian  Carlos  Burle  and Hawaiian Ian Walsh, along with local big wave charger Shimpei Horiguchi.

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