The setting at Portugal’s Nazaré is already pretty impressive, and this winter’s been one for huge, monster swells, but last week was all time, and filmmaker Kylian Castells has given the storm session a proper tribute by rendering it in stripped-down black and white. Here, he captures Francisco Porcella’s incredible bomb, a wave that’s already made him the frontrunner for XXL Ride of the Year.

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