Mike Parsons (born March 13, 1965, in California) is an american professional surfer and surfing coach.
Parsons was raised in Laguna Beach, California and began surfing when he was six-years-old. In 1983, he earned second place in the Junior Division of the United States Surfing Championships.
In 2001, Parsons was towed into a 66-foot wave at Cortes Bank, CA, for which he was awarded $66,000 the highest prize ever awarded in the history of professional surfing. This money was awarded by the Billabong XXL competition which paid tribute to the biggest waves ridden each year. Parsons also surfed a 64-foot wave during competition at the Jaws break on the north shore of Maui. It was filmed by helicopter and used as the opening scene of the 2003 film Billabong Odyssey. A usually uncredited clip of this sequence has gone on to become a viral video, attributed to a number of different surfers, locations, and in many cases, a Tsunami.
Parsons later broke his record on January 5, 2008, at Cortes Bank, when he was photographed surfing a wave that the Billabong XXL judged to be 77 feet, which put him in the Guinness Book of World Records, officially, for biggest wave ever surfed. Nearly 4 years later Garrett McNamara improved on this record with a 78-foot wave off Nazaré, Portugal on November 1, 2011.
In 2011, Parsons became the full-time coach for surfer Kolohe Andino.
On January 20, 2013, Parsons suffered a broken C7 vertebra in his neck and nearly drowned while surfing triple-overhead surf at Ocean Beach, a beach break in San Francisco, California. Parsons was able to return to surfing four months later.
Parsons was inducted into the Surfer’s Hall of Fame in Huntington Beach, California in 2008.
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never tire of watching this
Holyf..k Mike P great job man u got balls brother
So very well executed by Brad and mike,Frick how big are his balls to keep going over the ledge! HS to be one of the best big wave chargers of all time hands down.period
2:14
Water is HEAVY….FUCKING HEAVY….and thousands of tons of it are just being sucked up like it’s “nothing at all” (Ned Flanders)….and then relinquished back to the force of gravity
I’ll stick to my 3 foot waves at nj with my foam baord
Tubular!!
Kicking ass on the first jet ski Yamaha ever made!
Makes it look easy
I don’t know who’s crazier.. Alex Hannold or these guys
It’s like an old spice advert
1:23 i would have got off there
concor67 – do you think you can post this clip without the music and just with the sound of the wind, water, jet ski…..you know the natural sounds?
old but gold!
Ya, not 60 foot unless he’s like 2ft tall
🙏🎶🎵💯
I have never surfed but I can appreciate the dedication, skill and bravery required to be this mental.
GOAT
Laisse ecouter le bruit de la vague de on s’en fou de ta musique 👎
No doubt. One of de biggest
Fear of heights need not apply 🌊🌊🌊
WOW 😮
It looks like he’s snowboarding down a giant blue mountain at first
For a split second there I was beginning to view the earth as flat, until it began to curve and proceeded to want to eat the man ahlive
Great song!
Awesome
In the words of Austin Powers, "first I'm going to soil myself"………
Holy fuck that's a massive wave
I don't understand why put music instead of the real sound of the waves.
Mashallah look at the size of that wave compared to the person surfing
I'd be scared to get into the water at a place called Jaws beach.
What happens if you fall into this wave?
What’s the song playing???
Surf's up !!!!!
Uff🎉🎆
Wow, is this guy the Surfing GOAT? Amazing
I always wondered, how far away from the shoreline are these waves for surfers to ride and with waves that huge, wouldn't they completely wipe out the shore where the spectators are?
He wouldve surfed faster but his steel balls slowed him down
Bro gonna die