Waimea Shorebreak Bodyboard Wipeout

This is Waimea shore break, where 20-foot waves that break on the more famous point wrap into the bay to explode on shallow sandbars as hellish 12-foot tubes.

Only a few extreme bodyboarders challenge it, kicking their sponge-soft boards over the ledge for a thrilling plunge into thin air and a brief tube ride.

And a brutal beating. This unknown rider challenges the beast. The infamous Waimea Shorebreak takes one more…

waimea shorebreak wipeout

Photo: Tim Mckenna

36 Surfers commented this... What do you think?

  1. surfer - 7 - June - 2007

    Yikes, this is serious “imgonnacrashyoulikeabug” amount of water :)

  2. meh - 10 - June - 2007

    WOW hahahaha suck shit

  3. daniel cavanagh - 15 - June - 2007

    woo i’m that bloke

  4. wee - 8 - July - 2007

    im that guy and i live in australia
    yewwww

  5. john boy - 23 - July - 2007

    dats Waimea tunda from down unda

  6. G-dog - 22 - September - 2007

    cop that haha

  7. Lamine - 29 - September - 2007

    I am in West Africa, and there we hope to get a surf report before we cross town to get to the beach break at the right time. Unfortunately, here in Africa, a webcam is hard to find and very expensive. In addition, the internet speed is too slow to have a good video feed. So, for me and my friends, the problem was how can we afford a good surf report. That’s when we thought of creating Laplaj.Com. Hence on this site, you can upload photos and text reports directly from a cell phone, assuming the phone has a camera and can send emails. A friend of mine who owns a surf shop near the beach takes a couple of photos every morning and adds a few comments. That way, he keeps us up to date on the local surf… Pretty cool hein! Take advantage of it, the tool is open to all the surf addicts like myself.

    Lamine.

  8. Levi - 4 - October - 2007

    Ha ha loser
    what an idiot
    he probaly died

  9. Shane - 25 - November - 2007

    The boarders name is Tim Jones and I use to surf with him around the Central Coast of NSW,Australia.And Danial Cavanaugh and Wee,obviously you cant surf seeing your trying to take credit for someone elses bravery,he was the only one with big enough balls to go out that day and he did it over and over again getting a couple of the most insane shorie barrels I have seen to this day,Danial and Wee go back to the kiddies pool boys.Floggers lol.

  10. bodyboard - 6 - January - 2008

    that is actually 2x world champ south african andre botha

  11. Anonymous - 20 - February - 2008

    Wrong “Bodyboard” its Tim Jones Ive got the edition of “Waves” mag with the series of shots right in front of me. Tim now is into photography and rips at that too

  12. Anonymous - 26 - February - 2008

    oh i just love jesus

  13. tiago - 11 - March - 2008

    doidera!!!! o///

  14. i love this font - 21 - April - 2008

    i wonder if that was painful

  15. john - 2 - May - 2008

    Mate this guy is a nutter full credit. I am a surfer but when the conditions were closing out used to get a lid and surf the shores myself. I have to say even this photo doesnt give him the credit he deserves. When you are out there and paddling in( i paddled in to waves a sixth the size) the barrels seem so much bigger than pictures give credit for. You could drive a bus through that thing thats how big it is

  16. hazz - 7 - May - 2008

    This is actualy andre botha and the photo was taken by Tim Jones

  17. surfmusic - 8 - May - 2008

    Sorry Hazz. I don’t know the crazy guy, but the photographer is definitely Tim McKenna.

  18. marcos85nsw@Hotmail.com - 5 - August - 2008

    Thats my borww Dre Botha HEavy RIDER and LEVI you stupid fucker your the only one that would die on that , dont bother leaving negative messages you piece of SCUM , You dont die from that he suffered 3 times heavier wipe out in Tahiti Teahupoo You Stupid Fuck.
    Dre botha Rules , it can be Sure that his got bigger balls than you mate.
    Australia here cronulla 2230 Shark island fuckerrr.

  19. Saffa_booger - 6 - October - 2008

    bodyboard - 6 - January - 2008
    that is actually 2x world champ south african andre botha

    Anonymous - 20 - February - 2008
    Wrong “Bodyboard” its Tim Jones Ive got the edition of “Waves” mag with the series of shots right in front of me. Tim now is into photography and rips at that too”

    umm, idiot.. tim jones is the photographer..
    try again.. must be a surfer
    its andre’ you dumbass..

  20. riley the booger king - 18 - December - 2008

    yea levi u r the biggest 8-nob eva. its botha all right the 2x world champ will charge any thing he had a massive wipeout at chopes way worse than that. Hes me FAV BODYBOARDER!!!!! YEW!!!!!!

  21. riley the booger king - 18 - December - 2008

    beta all u retarts who thinks its tim johns are ethier pussyboggers or gumbie surfers tim johns takes photos u gay people. And im with u all the way andre bothas bro. Levi u r still a dick nob. YYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  22. you retards - 23 - June - 2009

    you dickheads.
    this photo was not taken by tim jones.
    look at the fucking bottom left of the photo you faggots!
    and you can also go to www.tim-mckenna.com and the photo is there.

  23. Surf Music - 23 - June - 2009

    Humm… I’m not sure this is Andre Botha… Botha’s most known wipeout was in teahupoo: http://bit.ly/botha-wipeout

    But the shot was taken be Tim Mckenna.

  24. you retards - 9 - July - 2009

    i have this whole sequence of photos
    it was definately taken by tim mckenna
    as for the bodyboarder thats up for debate but the photog. is defs tim mckenna so all of you who thinks it tim jones fuck off

  25. pinheiro - 21 - November - 2009

    BRAZIL

  26. mark - 9 - December - 2009

    i’ll settle this argument once and for all. this photo was published way back in 92-93 in riptide magazine. the bboarder IS tim jones. he took off on several of these monsters and then came in mentioning that he had lined the photographers pockets with gold in the space of a few short minutes. i don’t have the magazine anymore but i will go to my grave knowing full well that jonesy was the bloke who copped probably the heaviest shorebreak thumping ever caught on camera. i’ll never forget this sequence of photos

  27. nomad fsd spex signature 2009 - 29 - January - 2010

    that is insane thats going to “crushtheshitoutofhim” !!!!

  28. JenifferZW - 9 - February - 2010

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  29. Lucas - 2 - March - 2010

    Queda do caramba!

  30. Lucas - 2 - March - 2010

    BraZIL TEM MUITOS SURFISTAS DE BODYBOARD!!!!!!

  31. riley the booger king - 21 - March - 2010

    mark u must be looking at it wrong. Its botha ive got the mag. It is issue 123 of ripetide he was on the cover. the pic was also featured in issue 173 of ripetide on bothas timeline.

  32. Filipe - 21 - May - 2010

    tchiiii queda mesmo fudenga

  33. leandro - 3 - August - 2010

    ele morreu??

  34. buster - 7 - August - 2010

    Oh oh. Being thrown over the lip and sucked back over again really sucks. It doesn’t matter if one’s a marshmello, surfer or bodysurfer, we all know when taking off there’s the risk of getting hurt. But it’s making it that gets me really going and stoked.

  35. lucas rodrigues... south to south......... - 12 - August - 2010

    OHH FUCKK BABYY BABYYY FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

  36. BILLY - 9 - April - 2011

    que VACA em mano!!
    no pecém é melhor..

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