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Big-wave hellman and women will paddle 100-foot wave (if the occan gives them the chance)

Back in January of 2016, during one of the biggest swells of the recent El Nino season, Oahu native Aaron Gold sat out in the lineup at Jaws on a self-shaped gun. He was running on adrenaline, having gotten little sleep the night before, and when the wave of the day rolled into the lineup, he turned his board towards the shore and started scratching. “When I got to my feet, I didn’t really know just how big

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