Well, a couple days after Veteran's Day really, but if big-wave surfing were a war -- and it is, a war for survival -- then these guys are indeed veterans as decorated as they come in one of the world's scariest battlefields, Jaws. Furthermore, this is as tight and timely and beautiful and frightening a big-wave edit as you're likely to see anytime soon -- with a truly dazzling 3:54 climax clip, where a guy you've never heard of pulls off the drop of the year.

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Elliot LeboePrimus