January 18, 1985, was a springboard for Mark Foo’s big-wave career. That afternoon he bailed his way through what might still be the biggest Waimea Bay closeout set to ever roll through an occupied lineup, and afterward he paddled into, and was annihilated by, another closeout wave. More importantly for his career, Mark wasted no…
READ: MARK FOO’S 1985 “OCCURRENCE AT WAIMEA BAY”
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- “THE ULTIMATE THRILL,” MARK FOO PROFILE BY MATT WARSHAW (1987)
- READ: MARK FOO’S 1985 “OCCURRENCE AT WAIMEA BAY”
- MARK FOO INTERVIEW: MORE HUSTLING MEANS MORE SURFING
- LONG READ: “THE DIVIDED RULERS OF WAIMEA BAY,” BY MATT WARSHAW
- LONG READ: “THE BAY: WAIMEA BAY IS STILL DEFINING THE SURFER’S CONCEPTS OF MASS, VOLUME, POWER AND SANITY,” BY ALLSTON JAMES