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GARRETT MCNAMARA:
My childhood was very unstable.

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REPORTER:
They say they are the followers
of Jesus Christ, Lightning Amen.

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MCNAMARA: We walked the earth
the same way Jesus walked.

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SPEAKER: They had no shoes.
They ate out of trash cans.

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MCNAMARA: That was the part
that messes with me a lot.

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♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS) ♪

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SPEAKER 2: Our idea
for the third year project

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was to open the door
to everybody.

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SURFER: You're never
on a safety zone in Nazare.

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We just wanted to do it.

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SURFER 2: You can't afford
to be on every swell, see?

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You just need to be
on the right swells.

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SPEAKER 3:
We created the Red Chargers.

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SPEAKER 4: The surfers that look
for the red blobs on the map.

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The whole goal is to put a face
to these people on the waves.

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MCNAMARA: And then everything
just kind of went wrong.

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SPEAKER 5: Oh, my god!

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Oh...!

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[TV static drones]

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[bright tone]

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[tense music]

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♪ ♪

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- [speaking Portuguese]

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[soft music]

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- Check out these monster
100-foot waves

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off of Portugal.

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- The biggest wave
ever surfed,

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as high as 100 feet.

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- To put that in perspective,

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that is taller than
an eight-story building.

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- Surfers are always looking
for the next great thing.

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- It often breaks those brave
or crazy board riders.

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- Severe wipeouts and waves
of mind-boggling heights.

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- What happens here happens
nowhere else in the world.

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- Biggest wave ever surfed.
- The biggest wave ever--

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- The 100-foot wave.

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♪ ♪

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[radio chatter]

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[indistinct chatter]

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♪ ♪

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- A gnarly wipeout
in Half Moon Bay.

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McNamara falls
off his surfboard

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and hits the water three times.

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- Yeah, I saw Garrett's
wipeout.

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Skip, skip, crunch.

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- I went over the handlebars
and hit the water super hard

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and then I just started
skipping like a stone.

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[mimics hitting water]

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- [mimics hitting water]

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- And then the lip landed
on me,

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and then I was
underwater forever

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and it was, like,
a normal pounding.

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But underwater, I felt
this crazy excruciating pain,

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and I couldn't move my arm.

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- Some are now calling
this wipeout

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one of the worst ever
recorded.

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- All right.
- All right.

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- He got to the hospital,
and they were like,

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"You shattered your shoulder."

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And the humerus head was
shattered like an eggshell.

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- I found out he got hurt.
I was kind of scared.

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Yeah, I mean,
I did whatever I could.

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I started making calls.

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I started calling people
and seeing who could help.

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- Garrett's brother Liam
was a godsend.

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He found a surgeon
who would work on him.

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The next morning,
he came out of surgery.

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He said, "Put my shoes on.
We're out of here."

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We flew back home.

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A week after the first surgery,
we go to see Dr. Weldon.

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- And they both
simultaneously said,

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"The surgery went perfect,

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and we're gonna--we're expected
to have a full recovery."

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I glance at the X-ray,

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and I saw some
disturbing images.

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When the head is down

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underneath the acromion,

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it's a sign that

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your axillary nerve

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is not firing.

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- And he says that Garrett
needs another surgery

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because the first one failed.

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Garrett comes out
of the surgery, and I'm there,

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and he wakes up,
but he can't feel anything

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'cause they have
a nerve blocker,

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so they tell us
the nerve blocker

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should last 24 hours.

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With one hour of him being out
of the surgery,

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all of a sudden, it was
like that movie "Hostile,"

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just like this bloody murder

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like from the depths
of his soul,

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like, just screaming in pain.

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He was like,
"I don't feel anything.

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"It's not working.

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"I just want
another nerve blocker,

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I just want
another nerve blocker."

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He's asking me
to get him a plastic bag

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so that he can kill himself,

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and if I don't get him
the plastic bag,

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he's gonna rip everything out,
and go to the top

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of the building,
and jump off.

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♪ ♪

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This depression and pain

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went on for months.

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- [breathes deeply]

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The doctor said
that I should never surf again.

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- You know,
I just told him--I was like,

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"We just can't even
let that be a possibility,

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"so don't even think
about that,

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not a reality, so don't even
give it any energy."

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- [whispering]
Practice acceptance.

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Defenselessness.

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Conscious choices.

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♪ ♪

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I started doing
all my physical therapy

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and my stretches.

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- It took a long while for him
to get back in the water,

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but we were back
in Portugal pretty soon after.

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♪ ♪

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There was events
he had to be at.

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We still report to sponsors
to feed our family.

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- Um, reports
from a reporter...

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- We had various
other meetings too.

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- I was invited in here
to get to know you guys

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and your company
and to kind of...

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- Looking for
new opportunities

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and new projects

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to keep the sponsors happy.

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He was just miserable
with this arm

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and not being able to surf.

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- Not 100%.

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Doctors felt I need
a third surgery,

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but they don't know me
too well.

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- [laughs]

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♪ ♪

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[birds calling]

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- I went back to Hawaii
to Sunset.

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I could ride waves,
but I wasn't comfortable.

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I wasn't ready for big ones.

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I knew I was gonna be able to,
but I was, back of my mind,

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wondering if I was going
to want

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to go back out in big waves.

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♪ ♪

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- There he is right here.
My hero.

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Weldon.

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[machine beeping]

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Whoa, holy moly,
look at that thing.

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- Your bone has
definitely healed.

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You have healing--evidence
of healing through here,

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so very good, very good.

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Congratulations on doing
so well with your shoulder,

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and it's remarkable,

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and it's even possible given
where--how far you've come

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that you could get enough

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so you can be similar
to this side.

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So when you--when I
first saw you,

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I mentioned that I had
taken care of somebody

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who had fallen off a cliff,
and I treated his elbow,

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no problem,
but his brain was messed up.

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He was in tears all the time,

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and I had missed it,
that he had PTSD.

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- Definitely, I had PTSD,

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definitely working
through it right now.

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I don't know until I get
a really heavy pounding,

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and I'll see if I enjoy it
or not.

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Thank you.
- Yeah.

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- Thank you,
really appreciate everything.

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- Congratulations.
- Thank you.

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- I look forward to seeing you
back at Maverick.

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♪ ♪

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- He stayed
in a little storage shed

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that we turned
into a bedroom for him.

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We surfed a lot together.

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We had a really good time
together.

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[cheers and applause]

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- He decided to kick out
through the lip,

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but the next wave is
right there.

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[tense music]

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[soft music]

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That wave landed right
on Koxa's head.

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- He was really struggling.

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He didn't know if he'd ever
surf big waves again.

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- Ready?

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- 2017, there was a big swell.

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You get those perfect moments
when the second wave

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of the set is smooth.

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Look at that.
Look at how clean that is.

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It's perfectly smooth,
it's groomed,

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and there's a lot of room
in between sets.

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Let's do it.
Cotty's frothing.

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- Nazaré was huge.
I didn't want to wait.

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I just wanted
to get out there,

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and I was prepared to go
all day.

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You know, I knew that someone
was gonna get, like,

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one of the biggest waves of
the year, you know, for sure.

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I saw some sick fucking waves.
- Really?

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- Yeah, like,
sick A-frames, like...

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[exhales]

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- You're not
to paddle about?

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- I don't know.

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A lot of people turned up
for that swell.

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[indistinct chatter]

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- Big and pretty.

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It's weird
because it's super pretty.

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So it looks smaller,
but it's not small at all.

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- How big is it out there,
do you think?

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- I don't know but huge.
I think it's huge.

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- I'm gonna try.

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Hopefully, this wind
doesn't get too strong.

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- This is my baby, 10 kilos.

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I like this wind 'cause
it make the wave bigger.

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- You know,
I came down this morning.

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It's just perfect offshore,

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so the forecasts
are wrong again, you know?

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You don't get days
like this often here.

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You get the birds, and you get
the sound, come on.

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Come on!

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- You know,
it's gonna be interesting

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to see what shows up.

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It's gonna be exciting
to watch everybody.

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Probably, I think at a minimum,
I'll drive Cotty and Hugo

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into a few waves,
and then I'll assess

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the situation out there,

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see if there's any waves
that I would like to ride.

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I have a feeling I'm not gonna
even want to ride any.

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- On look, a bit funky
at first light,

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and then about quarter
to 7:00,

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the sickest set
I've seen in a long time.

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Way more groomed than
I thought it was gonna be.

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Been visualizing
the day before

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the wave that I wanted.

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I was super confident.

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I was in a good place,
you know, like,

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like it was an all-or-nothing
day, you know,

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like I was prepared to put it
all on the line, you know?

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- What's the worst crash
you've seen?

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[dramatic music]

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[speaking Portuguese]

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- I put him on the wave.
I put him in the perfect spot.

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It was nice and smooth
and beautiful,

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and he came down,
and he did a little fade,

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and then he turned

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so that he could get
into the barrel.

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And when he turned,
he was too late,

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and the lip was coming
straight for him.

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♪ ♪

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[radio chatter]

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I stayed out the back.
Hugo got him.

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Hugo ran him up the beach.

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♪ ♪

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[indistinct chatter]

254
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- One, two, three.

255
00:16:16,041 --> 00:16:17,541
Pull him over.

256
00:16:19,416 --> 00:16:21,958
- His back is really sore,
and he can't move that well,

257
00:16:22,041 --> 00:16:24,917
and he thinks it's his spine.

258
00:16:24,999 --> 00:16:27,458
♪ ♪

259
00:16:27,541 --> 00:16:29,792
[indistinct chatter]

260
00:16:29,875 --> 00:16:32,166
- Hold on, hold on,
hold on, hold on.

261
00:16:32,249 --> 00:16:33,792
- Just get it off.

262
00:16:33,875 --> 00:16:36,416
- Okay, it's okay.

263
00:16:36,500 --> 00:16:37,958
- Easy, easy, easy.

264
00:16:38,041 --> 00:16:39,833
- Hold on, hold on.
Don't move your head.

265
00:16:39,917 --> 00:16:42,500
- Same pain?
- Same pain, lower back.

266
00:16:42,583 --> 00:16:44,833
[unintelligible]
[radio chatter]

267
00:16:44,917 --> 00:16:47,667
- Have we got the blanket
for him?

268
00:16:47,750 --> 00:16:48,958
- Katie.

269
00:16:49,041 --> 00:16:50,458
- Hi.

270
00:16:50,541 --> 00:16:52,541
- Um, we got bad news,

271
00:16:52,625 --> 00:16:54,500
but Cotty's alive,

272
00:16:54,583 --> 00:16:56,333
but he got hurt.

273
00:16:56,416 --> 00:16:57,667
- Oh, is he okay?
Where?

274
00:16:57,750 --> 00:16:58,833
What, in the water?

275
00:16:58,917 --> 00:17:02,291
- Yeah, we just got out.

276
00:17:02,375 --> 00:17:06,999
Really, really painful
and doesn't feel right at all.

277
00:17:07,083 --> 00:17:08,166
[dog barking]

278
00:17:08,249 --> 00:17:10,166
- Take it off, take it off,
take it off.

279
00:17:10,249 --> 00:17:11,500
Brace.

280
00:17:11,583 --> 00:17:14,750
- On three--one, two, three.
- Brace yourself. Brace.

281
00:17:19,958 --> 00:17:21,833
- Go onto the stretcher now.

282
00:17:21,917 --> 00:17:25,249
- [speaking Portuguese]

283
00:17:25,333 --> 00:17:26,875
- He'll be fine.
He'll come through.

284
00:17:26,958 --> 00:17:29,625
Cotty's strong.
He bounces back quick.

285
00:17:36,333 --> 00:17:37,667
Bummer.

286
00:17:37,750 --> 00:17:40,083
- Garrett,
in all his positivity,

287
00:17:40,166 --> 00:17:42,541
he's like,
"Oh, he's gonna be okay."

288
00:17:42,625 --> 00:17:44,708
He got taken away
in an ambulance.

289
00:17:44,792 --> 00:17:47,375
Like, it was really bad,

290
00:17:47,458 --> 00:17:50,124
and I think, like,
maybe it scared Garrett,

291
00:17:50,208 --> 00:17:53,249
so he was not giving it
the energy it deserved

292
00:17:53,333 --> 00:17:55,667
as far as how severe it was.

293
00:17:55,750 --> 00:17:59,249
With injuries and, like,
tragic situations,

294
00:17:59,333 --> 00:18:00,625
he almost can't handle it.

295
00:18:00,708 --> 00:18:06,416
Yeah, he doesn't do well with,
like, people almost dying.

296
00:18:06,500 --> 00:18:08,416
- Perfect.
I didn't even have to surf.

297
00:18:08,500 --> 00:18:10,333
[chuckles softly]

298
00:20:07,333 --> 00:20:09,833
- With a wave measured
at 80 feet

299
00:20:09,958 --> 00:20:12,999
and setting
a new Guinness World Record,

300
00:20:13,083 --> 00:20:17,375
the winner of the 2018
Biggest Wave Awards

301
00:20:17,458 --> 00:20:19,249
is Rodrigo Koxa.

302
00:20:19,333 --> 00:20:22,333
[cheers and applause]

303
00:20:43,792 --> 00:20:45,917
- There was nobody
that I would like

304
00:20:45,999 --> 00:20:47,750
to have broken the record
more than him.

305
00:20:47,833 --> 00:20:50,208
Oh, you know, it would
have been cool if it was Cotty.

306
00:20:50,291 --> 00:20:53,083
[soft music]

307
00:20:53,166 --> 00:20:55,208
- Look at that.

308
00:20:55,291 --> 00:20:57,416
♪ ♪

309
00:20:57,500 --> 00:20:58,833
Mm.

310
00:21:01,166 --> 00:21:03,416
Until that point,
I never questioned

311
00:21:03,500 --> 00:21:05,416
not being able to walk.

312
00:21:05,500 --> 00:21:07,750
Just fearing that
I physically couldn't do it

313
00:21:07,833 --> 00:21:09,249
was pretty scary.

314
00:21:09,333 --> 00:21:10,917
- Ah, Cotty's --

315
00:21:10,999 --> 00:21:12,917
- And then within like
two weeks,

316
00:21:12,999 --> 00:21:14,875
I was walking around.

317
00:21:14,958 --> 00:21:17,416
- See this guy
walking already?

318
00:21:17,500 --> 00:21:19,875
You'll be surfing
in a blink.

319
00:21:19,958 --> 00:21:22,500
- Ahh!
- [laughs]

320
00:21:23,833 --> 00:21:26,792
- It's been horrific
going through the rehab,

321
00:21:26,875 --> 00:21:28,958
the uncertainty
and the stress.

322
00:21:29,041 --> 00:21:30,917
- How's that feel?
- It feels good.

323
00:21:30,999 --> 00:21:32,249
- All right?
- Yeah.

324
00:21:32,333 --> 00:21:33,667
- You feel difference.
There's a difference.

325
00:21:33,750 --> 00:21:38,375
- Negatives, all that worry,
all that, am I good enough?

326
00:21:41,041 --> 00:21:42,583
Then once that happens,

327
00:21:42,667 --> 00:21:44,750
sometimes it's hard
to get it back, you know?

328
00:21:44,833 --> 00:21:46,583
♪ ♪

329
00:21:51,375 --> 00:21:53,500
[indistinct chatter]

330
00:21:54,958 --> 00:21:57,500
- So how's life?
- Good. Congratulations.

331
00:21:57,583 --> 00:21:58,625
- Congratulations.

332
00:21:58,708 --> 00:22:00,166
[overlapping chatter]

333
00:22:00,249 --> 00:22:01,917
- [speaking Portuguese]

334
00:22:15,375 --> 00:22:18,333
- Tourism of Portugal
gets this great idea.

335
00:22:18,416 --> 00:22:21,792
We're gonna put Nazaré
in Times Square.

336
00:22:21,875 --> 00:22:24,625
- Here it is,
Koxa's world record wave,

337
00:22:24,708 --> 00:22:29,583
80-foot wave right behind us
in Time Square.

338
00:22:31,875 --> 00:22:35,458
- The guy's a visionary.
He's a visionary.

339
00:22:48,291 --> 00:22:50,833
- All right, Rodrigo,
let's get one more right here.

340
00:22:50,917 --> 00:22:54,792
- Hey, right here,
world record holder, Koxa!

341
00:22:54,875 --> 00:22:57,249
Hey, and Garrett McNamara
right here,

342
00:22:57,333 --> 00:22:59,500
record holder, world record.

343
00:22:59,583 --> 00:23:00,999
- No, he's the record holder.

344
00:23:01,083 --> 00:23:04,917
- Now it's
Koxa's the world record.

345
00:23:04,999 --> 00:23:07,667
Yeah, Koxa!
- Ha-ha!

346
00:23:07,750 --> 00:23:10,375
- Whoo!
- Yee!

347
00:23:10,458 --> 00:23:13,625
[soft music]

348
00:23:38,667 --> 00:23:41,625
[dramatic music]

349
00:23:41,708 --> 00:23:46,750
♪ ♪

350
00:23:46,833 --> 00:23:48,917
- I'm preparing my body

351
00:23:48,999 --> 00:23:51,124
so that when I go back
to Nazaré,

352
00:23:51,208 --> 00:23:56,500
I will be physically,
mentally ready.

353
00:23:58,166 --> 00:24:01,083
I've surfed a 100-foot wave
a million times in my mind.

354
00:24:01,166 --> 00:24:06,875
I've trained for hours,
focusing, manifesting.

355
00:24:06,958 --> 00:24:09,249
This winter,
it's gonna be the big wave,

356
00:24:09,333 --> 00:24:11,667
so I'll be ready.

357
00:24:13,792 --> 00:24:17,124
- Big, huge breath in.

358
00:24:17,208 --> 00:24:20,500
Let it out.
both: Ohh.

359
00:24:20,583 --> 00:24:23,458
- Garrett was physically
trying to get back in shape.

360
00:24:23,541 --> 00:24:26,291
- All right, grab some water
if you got it.

361
00:24:26,375 --> 00:24:29,166
- My brother CJ had moved
to Hawaii.

362
00:24:29,249 --> 00:24:30,500
- Stay focused.

363
00:24:30,583 --> 00:24:33,541
Feet on track, knees on track.
Butt down.

364
00:24:58,375 --> 00:25:00,500
- From 2011,
it definitely seemed

365
00:25:00,583 --> 00:25:05,041
like Nazaré was something
super special for me.

366
00:25:05,124 --> 00:25:07,333
It was gonna be a huge part
of my life

367
00:25:07,416 --> 00:25:08,500
'cause it changed me.

368
00:25:08,583 --> 00:25:11,333
It really did.

369
00:25:11,416 --> 00:25:16,166
- In 2011, CJ excelled above

370
00:25:16,249 --> 00:25:19,458
and beyond any expectations
I may have had.

371
00:25:19,541 --> 00:25:23,541
He was excited to become
a professional surfer,

372
00:25:23,625 --> 00:25:25,458
big wave surfer.

373
00:25:25,541 --> 00:25:28,458
And he got injured.

374
00:25:28,541 --> 00:25:31,333
- It wasn't a huge day.
It was kind of big.

375
00:25:31,416 --> 00:25:33,667
I'm kind of zipping around
inside back and forth

376
00:25:33,750 --> 00:25:35,792
in the white wash
and looking around,

377
00:25:35,875 --> 00:25:40,083
and this kind of weird little
Nazaré tidal wave

378
00:25:40,166 --> 00:25:41,999
sucked up kind of
out of nowhere,

379
00:25:42,083 --> 00:25:43,917
and I gassed it
to get past it,

380
00:25:43,999 --> 00:25:45,541
and I went up on the lip,

381
00:25:45,625 --> 00:25:48,041
and it sent me off
over the side of the lip,

382
00:25:48,124 --> 00:25:50,041
and the ski rolled over.

383
00:25:50,124 --> 00:25:54,708
I got a good hit
from a jet ski in my rib.

384
00:25:54,792 --> 00:25:59,083
And then returning
to beach volleyball season,

385
00:25:59,166 --> 00:26:01,708
the way I played was
just hard,

386
00:26:01,792 --> 00:26:03,875
just jumping as I can,
hitting every ball

387
00:26:03,958 --> 00:26:05,583
as hard as I can.
[whistle blows]

388
00:26:05,667 --> 00:26:07,083
So I ended up
blowing out the disc

389
00:26:07,166 --> 00:26:10,541
in my low back
on the left side,

390
00:26:10,625 --> 00:26:13,708
and that's
when the sciatic pain came.

391
00:26:13,792 --> 00:26:17,249
I couldn't stand up
for more than ten seconds.

392
00:26:17,333 --> 00:26:20,416
I would hit the floor
and go into fetal position.

393
00:26:20,500 --> 00:26:22,208
It was brutal.
I couldn't move.

394
00:26:22,291 --> 00:26:26,375
I was absolutely crippled,
floored.

395
00:26:26,458 --> 00:26:31,208
- My brother being my brother,
he spent an entire year

396
00:26:31,291 --> 00:26:33,750
trying to heal it on his own.

397
00:26:33,833 --> 00:26:35,208
- We didn't realize
how bad it was

398
00:26:35,291 --> 00:26:37,917
until his mother went
to visit him,

399
00:26:37,999 --> 00:26:40,416
found him laying
on the ground.

400
00:26:40,500 --> 00:26:42,291
He was broken.

401
00:26:42,375 --> 00:26:44,625
- All of his muscles
were atrophied.

402
00:26:44,708 --> 00:26:47,416
He was withering away.

403
00:26:47,500 --> 00:26:49,458
Finally,
he did the back surgery

404
00:26:49,541 --> 00:26:52,041
after a year of this already.

405
00:26:52,124 --> 00:26:55,249
When he came out of surgery
and he came to,

406
00:26:55,333 --> 00:26:57,416
he just started crying.

407
00:26:57,500 --> 00:27:01,249
CJ suffered a severe mental,
emotional,

408
00:27:01,333 --> 00:27:03,416
and physical back injury,

409
00:27:03,500 --> 00:27:06,750
and then healing
and then recovery.

410
00:27:06,833 --> 00:27:08,999
It was a journey.

411
00:27:09,083 --> 00:27:11,833
- They say 10 to 15 minutes

412
00:27:11,917 --> 00:27:13,583
of laughter will give you

413
00:27:13,667 --> 00:27:16,416
the benefits that you need.

414
00:27:16,500 --> 00:27:17,583
So we're gonna start off

415
00:27:17,667 --> 00:27:18,958
with just really simple
little breathing exercise.

416
00:27:19,041 --> 00:27:21,291
I'm so different now
because of the injury

417
00:27:21,375 --> 00:27:24,333
that it's so hard to say
what would have happened

418
00:27:24,416 --> 00:27:26,166
had the path continued

419
00:27:26,249 --> 00:27:28,625
and not been--had I not
taken this detour.

420
00:27:28,708 --> 00:27:32,291
All the way in the belly,
in the belly, in the ribs.

421
00:27:32,375 --> 00:27:35,208
all: Aloha!

422
00:27:35,291 --> 00:27:41,249
[laughing]

423
00:27:43,541 --> 00:27:45,958
- I like to think, you know,
would've been amazing.

424
00:27:46,041 --> 00:27:49,667
I'd be this famous
big wave surfer and, you know,

425
00:27:49,750 --> 00:27:53,500
sponsors just throwing money
and stuff at me.

426
00:27:53,583 --> 00:27:55,667
But it's all this stuff
that now I'm like,

427
00:27:55,750 --> 00:27:56,958
what is that even worth?

428
00:27:57,041 --> 00:27:58,792
What does it mean, you know?

429
00:27:58,875 --> 00:28:01,708
Probably still have this guilt
and self-worth issues,

430
00:28:01,792 --> 00:28:04,124
and I'd have all
this external attention

431
00:28:04,208 --> 00:28:07,166
from big waves and all this,
and I'd still be like,

432
00:28:07,249 --> 00:28:09,333
oh, whatever, I'm shit,
you know?

433
00:28:09,416 --> 00:28:11,625
[laughter]

434
00:28:11,708 --> 00:28:13,999
So I definitely wouldn't
trade it in for anything.

435
00:28:14,083 --> 00:28:17,375
You know, it's the biggest
blessing in my life.

436
00:28:17,458 --> 00:28:21,208
But now I have really
kind of taken a step back,

437
00:28:21,291 --> 00:28:26,083
then I'm planning on going
back to Nazaré with Garrett.

438
00:28:26,166 --> 00:28:28,333
- The traditional
big wave season

439
00:28:28,416 --> 00:28:33,083
of Nazaré is October
through end of February.

440
00:28:33,166 --> 00:28:36,708
Garrett was in recovery mode
from his shoulder,

441
00:28:36,792 --> 00:28:39,291
and so it was like, okay,
let's do this comeback.

442
00:28:39,375 --> 00:28:41,375
Let's get you guys
both out there.

443
00:28:41,458 --> 00:28:43,166
- Curl with the curl.

444
00:28:43,249 --> 00:28:45,333
We both experienced injuries

445
00:28:45,416 --> 00:28:48,833
but haven't really broken
through on them

446
00:28:48,917 --> 00:28:52,708
in order to be able to go out
and surf these waves.

447
00:28:52,792 --> 00:28:55,166
[light dynamic music]

448
00:28:55,249 --> 00:28:57,124
When it's time to go
to Nazaré

449
00:28:57,208 --> 00:29:00,208
and go ride this giant wave,

450
00:29:00,291 --> 00:29:02,333
we'll be ready.

451
00:29:15,625 --> 00:29:21,041
♪ ♪

452
00:29:21,124 --> 00:29:24,166
- We were in Bali for a month.

453
00:29:24,249 --> 00:29:26,875
The plan was yoga, training,

454
00:29:26,958 --> 00:29:29,083
and to really get ready,
and feel mentally

455
00:29:29,166 --> 00:29:33,166
and physically prepared
to go back out to Nazaré.

456
00:29:33,249 --> 00:29:36,083
It's not just
your regular yoga

457
00:29:36,166 --> 00:29:38,708
that you think of
with postures, and that's it.

458
00:29:38,792 --> 00:29:43,208
It's about how we hold trauma
in our bodies,

459
00:29:43,291 --> 00:29:46,667
and that's what creates pain.

460
00:29:46,750 --> 00:29:49,792
It's also
about healing injuries.

461
00:29:50,833 --> 00:29:52,249
- We were doing
like six months

462
00:29:52,333 --> 00:29:54,792
of quite intense physio
and rehab,

463
00:29:54,875 --> 00:29:57,083
but all of it's
been gym based.

464
00:29:57,166 --> 00:30:02,333
The idea was to come up here
and just a bit

465
00:30:02,416 --> 00:30:03,999
of yoga, a bit of moving.

466
00:30:04,083 --> 00:30:08,833
- The first movement you need
to learn is to

467
00:30:08,917 --> 00:30:10,708
massage the Earth.

468
00:30:10,792 --> 00:30:12,958
Come down.

469
00:30:13,041 --> 00:30:15,958
And you've got to put
a little bit of dancer in it.

470
00:30:16,041 --> 00:30:18,124
- At first, it's like,
we're meant to get up

471
00:30:18,208 --> 00:30:19,124
and dance and stuff.

472
00:30:19,208 --> 00:30:22,958
I was like, oh, no.
[laughs]

473
00:30:23,041 --> 00:30:26,166
[chanting]
[instrument clacking]

474
00:30:26,249 --> 00:30:29,208
And then I kind of
got into it.

475
00:30:31,208 --> 00:30:33,416
It was kind of just quite good
to sort of break the ice

476
00:30:33,500 --> 00:30:35,792
and let your inhibitions go

477
00:30:35,875 --> 00:30:37,875
and then, like,
just fully throw yourself

478
00:30:37,958 --> 00:30:39,917
into the experience, you know?

479
00:30:39,999 --> 00:30:42,958
[chanting]

480
00:30:46,750 --> 00:30:49,208
- People come to us for a lot
of different reasons,

481
00:30:49,291 --> 00:30:52,166
including reasons
that they didn't know.

482
00:30:52,249 --> 00:30:54,458
They come for healing,

483
00:30:54,541 --> 00:30:57,166
sometimes it's
the back injury,

484
00:30:57,249 --> 00:30:59,833
and sometimes
it's a deeper yearning

485
00:30:59,917 --> 00:31:02,625
and a deeper hidden impulse.

486
00:31:05,416 --> 00:31:07,625
- [breathing deeply]

487
00:31:10,917 --> 00:31:13,500
[bones crack softly]

488
00:31:13,583 --> 00:31:15,541
Oh, hear all that?

489
00:31:15,625 --> 00:31:18,875
All the ligaments and tendons
popping over the middle.

490
00:31:18,958 --> 00:31:23,041
[inhales]
Oh.

491
00:31:23,124 --> 00:31:26,667
Ahh.

492
00:31:28,124 --> 00:31:32,083
My body will be as ready
as it can be.

493
00:31:32,166 --> 00:31:37,416
The challenge is getting
confidence underwater.

494
00:31:37,500 --> 00:31:38,583
I want to surf in it,

495
00:31:38,667 --> 00:31:39,917
but I don't know if I want
to surf in it.

496
00:31:39,999 --> 00:31:42,750
I don't even know how I'm gonna
feel when I go back there.

497
00:31:42,833 --> 00:31:44,833
I was trying to paddle
in some little waves yesterday,

498
00:31:44,917 --> 00:31:46,375
but it was really terrible.

499
00:31:46,458 --> 00:31:48,333
- Sometimes those little days
are harder, though.

500
00:31:48,416 --> 00:31:52,375
- Yeah, and I don't know
if I'm gonna even be interested

501
00:31:52,458 --> 00:31:53,541
in riding some big waves.

502
00:31:53,625 --> 00:31:55,041
- You will.
- Yeah.

503
00:31:55,124 --> 00:31:57,041
- As soon as you get two
under your belt.

504
00:31:57,124 --> 00:31:59,416
- As soon as I get my lungs.

505
00:31:59,500 --> 00:32:01,625
- You'll get a few waves.
It'll be clean.

506
00:32:01,708 --> 00:32:03,750
- It'll be all back to normal.
- It'll be nice.

507
00:32:03,833 --> 00:32:05,375
- Freaking out.
- Yeah.

508
00:32:05,458 --> 00:32:08,249
- [laughs]

509
00:32:08,333 --> 00:32:12,291
- Directly into the heart.

510
00:32:12,375 --> 00:32:14,583
Then turn on the inner legs.

511
00:32:14,667 --> 00:32:16,792
- He's starting
to turn on the muscles

512
00:32:16,875 --> 00:32:17,958
that were just flaccid.

513
00:32:18,041 --> 00:32:20,541
He's not such a stress ball
around his injury.

514
00:32:20,625 --> 00:32:23,166
It's like,
it's changing beautifully.

515
00:32:25,124 --> 00:32:27,792
- Physically,
they will be able to do it,

516
00:32:27,875 --> 00:32:30,583
but confidence is a big thing,

517
00:32:30,667 --> 00:32:34,166
the mental preparation.

518
00:32:34,249 --> 00:32:38,500
- We have been working on how
to disobey the dictates

519
00:32:38,583 --> 00:32:40,792
of fear because
when you're doing anything,

520
00:32:40,875 --> 00:32:43,333
and your fear takes over,
you're screwed.

521
00:32:43,416 --> 00:32:46,708
You can't be in the throes
of fear

522
00:32:46,792 --> 00:32:50,124
and responding
at that profound athletic level

523
00:32:50,208 --> 00:32:52,249
that he needs to be.

524
00:32:52,333 --> 00:32:55,166
If you know you can
trust yourself,

525
00:32:55,249 --> 00:32:58,416
then you can trust yourself
to do great things.

526
00:32:58,500 --> 00:33:00,999
- I do not worry for them
at all.

527
00:33:01,083 --> 00:33:05,667
I think that they are ready.

528
00:33:11,458 --> 00:33:12,999
- Get in your body.

529
00:33:13,083 --> 00:33:16,500
- I suggested the yoga trip
to Bali.

530
00:33:16,583 --> 00:33:18,667
[children chatter]

531
00:33:18,750 --> 00:33:20,625
But to get Garrett to go
to Bali

532
00:33:20,708 --> 00:33:23,416
for a month with his kids...

533
00:33:25,083 --> 00:33:27,333
Yeah, there had
to have been some carrot

534
00:33:27,416 --> 00:33:29,833
at the end of the trip.

535
00:33:29,917 --> 00:33:31,875
The carrot was G-Land.

536
00:33:35,583 --> 00:33:37,541
- It had been about
at least 15 years

537
00:33:37,625 --> 00:33:39,541
since I've been to G-Land,

538
00:33:39,625 --> 00:33:42,833
and we were just there
to have fun.

539
00:33:42,917 --> 00:33:45,999
- The goal was to get barrels
in Indonesia,

540
00:33:46,083 --> 00:33:49,375
and we got to go to G-Land,
which has been this wave that,

541
00:33:49,458 --> 00:33:53,500
since I was a little kid,
I was like, oh, G-Land.

542
00:33:53,583 --> 00:33:58,166
I first heard about it when
I saw "The Endless Summer II."

543
00:33:58,249 --> 00:34:02,333
It's just this remote location
that has this wave

544
00:34:02,416 --> 00:34:04,541
that's just,
you know, perfect,

545
00:34:04,625 --> 00:34:06,708
and you can get the best wave
of your life, you know,

546
00:34:06,792 --> 00:34:08,833
if it's right.

547
00:34:08,917 --> 00:34:12,667
- As I got ready to paddle out,

548
00:34:12,750 --> 00:34:16,208
I looked at my helmet
in my bag,

549
00:34:16,291 --> 00:34:19,917
and I decided not to wear it.

550
00:34:19,999 --> 00:34:22,041
I should've put it on.

551
00:34:22,124 --> 00:34:25,041
[soft music]

552
00:34:25,124 --> 00:34:32,124
♪ ♪

553
00:34:39,333 --> 00:34:41,708
- He hits the reef,

554
00:34:41,792 --> 00:34:44,999
and he gets a gash in his head

555
00:34:45,083 --> 00:34:46,625
and amnesia.

556
00:34:46,708 --> 00:34:48,917
He doesn't know
where his camp is,

557
00:34:48,999 --> 00:34:51,166
nor where his wife is.

558
00:34:55,083 --> 00:34:56,792
- I know--I remember the wave,

559
00:34:56,875 --> 00:34:58,708
and I remember being
in the barrel.

560
00:34:58,792 --> 00:35:00,792
I was coming out, and then
I--something went wrong,

561
00:35:00,875 --> 00:35:03,249
and then all of a sudden,
I hit,

562
00:35:03,333 --> 00:35:06,291
and I was almost knocking out--
almost knocked out.

563
00:35:06,375 --> 00:35:08,208
I was like, fading, fading.

564
00:35:08,291 --> 00:35:10,917
I feel definitely out of it.

565
00:35:10,999 --> 00:35:13,917
I'm having a hard time
remembering still.

566
00:35:13,999 --> 00:35:17,208
I shouldn't still be not
remembering things, right?

567
00:35:17,291 --> 00:35:19,750
Just--
- No, no, no, it's normal.

568
00:35:19,833 --> 00:35:21,875
- It takes a while?
- Yeah, like 24 hours.

569
00:35:21,958 --> 00:35:22,917
- Okay.

570
00:35:22,999 --> 00:35:25,458
- You will ask the same, same,
same again,

571
00:35:25,541 --> 00:35:28,750
but it will get better.

572
00:35:28,833 --> 00:35:30,833
- If I hit any harder,
I would've knocked out.

573
00:35:30,917 --> 00:35:32,583
I probably wouldn't be here
because--I mean,

574
00:35:32,667 --> 00:35:33,917
I have this, so I was floating,

575
00:35:33,999 --> 00:35:37,583
but good luck
somebody finding...

576
00:35:37,667 --> 00:35:42,792
My children, my wife,
my life flashed before my eyes,

577
00:35:42,875 --> 00:35:45,249
and I thought to myself,
is this even worth it?

578
00:35:45,333 --> 00:35:47,625
These little waves,
and I could've just died.

579
00:35:47,708 --> 00:35:49,291
I was thinking about my family
and stuff,

580
00:35:49,375 --> 00:35:51,208
so I said, oh...

581
00:35:53,208 --> 00:35:55,124
[laughs]

582
00:35:55,208 --> 00:35:58,750
- All right, Garrett,
this is gonna sting for a sec.

583
00:35:58,833 --> 00:36:02,124
Okay, just one second.
- Oh-ho-ho-ho-ho.

584
00:36:02,208 --> 00:36:03,416
- You all right?
- Oh, yeah.

585
00:36:03,500 --> 00:36:05,083
- It's gonna burn just
a little bit.

586
00:36:05,166 --> 00:36:07,958
- Ooh, hee-hee-hee-hee,
I like it.

587
00:36:08,041 --> 00:36:09,208
- Looking good.

588
00:36:09,291 --> 00:36:10,875
- How about glue,
you got any glue?

589
00:36:10,958 --> 00:36:13,458
- No, dude, glue won't cut it
for this one.

590
00:36:13,541 --> 00:36:14,667
Yeah, I got worried.

591
00:36:14,750 --> 00:36:17,291
I finally caught another wave
and asked someone,

592
00:36:17,375 --> 00:36:18,333
like, "What happened?"

593
00:36:18,416 --> 00:36:20,541
They said,
"Oh, he had blood on his head,

594
00:36:20,625 --> 00:36:22,375
didn't know where
he was going."

595
00:36:22,458 --> 00:36:24,041
- [laughs]
I didn't.

596
00:36:24,124 --> 00:36:25,375
I didn't know where
I was staying.

597
00:36:25,458 --> 00:36:27,667
Up until
about a couple minutes ago,

598
00:36:27,750 --> 00:36:29,708
I couldn't remember where
Nicole went.

599
00:36:29,792 --> 00:36:31,124
- Wow.
- Yeah.

600
00:36:31,208 --> 00:36:33,166
- Your brain's really
vulnerable at the moment,

601
00:36:33,249 --> 00:36:35,416
and if you hit it again,

602
00:36:35,500 --> 00:36:37,166
you can get
permanent brain damage,

603
00:36:37,249 --> 00:36:38,875
and you don't want that.

604
00:36:38,958 --> 00:36:42,792
- You good?
- I am good.

605
00:36:42,875 --> 00:36:45,208
Tomorrow's gonna be
really good, huh?

606
00:36:45,291 --> 00:36:46,541
- Yeah.

607
00:36:46,625 --> 00:36:49,375
- When Garrett is talking
about going out surfing again

608
00:36:49,458 --> 00:36:52,041
when he's still got a bandage
around his head,

609
00:36:52,124 --> 00:36:53,875
and he's had a concussion,
I'm like,

610
00:36:53,958 --> 00:36:56,875
"Well, the doctor said
you shouldn't surf

611
00:36:56,958 --> 00:36:58,917
for at least two weeks."

612
00:36:58,999 --> 00:37:03,333
♪ ♪

613
00:37:03,416 --> 00:37:04,667
He just wanted to go out.

614
00:37:04,750 --> 00:37:08,333
There was no convincing him
otherwise.

615
00:37:08,416 --> 00:37:09,917
He's like,
"Yeah, but it's fine.

616
00:37:09,999 --> 00:37:11,875
I'll put the helmet on.
It'll be fine."

617
00:37:11,958 --> 00:37:15,041
And I'm like, "Okay."

618
00:37:15,124 --> 00:37:16,416
♪ ♪

619
00:37:16,500 --> 00:37:17,833
- Oh!

620
00:37:24,625 --> 00:37:26,208
- The universe said,
"You didn't listen

621
00:37:26,291 --> 00:37:29,416
"to my first sign
of your amnesia,

622
00:37:29,500 --> 00:37:32,041
so now I'm gonna have
to do something different."

623
00:37:32,124 --> 00:37:39,124
♪ ♪

624
00:37:49,999 --> 00:37:52,750
Four days later,
we landed in Portugal,

625
00:37:52,833 --> 00:37:55,500
and we went straight
to the hospital.

626
00:38:08,500 --> 00:38:11,416
- How did this happen?
- Surfing.

627
00:38:11,500 --> 00:38:14,249
The board went--
[clicks]

628
00:38:14,333 --> 00:38:17,291
- Okay, let's have a look
at the day of the exams.

629
00:38:17,375 --> 00:38:19,833
Here we see the base
of the third metatarsal.

630
00:38:19,917 --> 00:38:22,416
So it's dislocated.
- Dislocated.

631
00:38:22,500 --> 00:38:26,458
- Yes, there's no bone here
as it's dislocated.

632
00:38:26,541 --> 00:38:28,333
We have to put it back
in its place.

633
00:38:28,416 --> 00:38:32,958
What I plan to do is
to put a plate over the second

634
00:38:33,041 --> 00:38:35,958
and the third
tarsometatarsal joints.

635
00:38:36,041 --> 00:38:39,416
If they're not stable enough,
the foot in time will start

636
00:38:39,500 --> 00:38:41,958
to collapse,
will start to deform.

637
00:38:42,041 --> 00:38:43,625
You will not be able to walk.

638
00:38:43,708 --> 00:38:48,500
This is the kind of lesion
that we have to do surgery.

639
00:38:48,583 --> 00:38:49,625
- Okay.

640
00:38:49,708 --> 00:38:52,917
If we did nothing,
he will not be able to walk

641
00:38:52,999 --> 00:38:56,750
as he used to,
and I doubt he would be able

642
00:38:56,833 --> 00:39:01,999
to go on a board
and surf again as he's used to.

643
00:39:02,083 --> 00:39:05,541
This is the kind of injury
you have to fix.

644
00:39:05,625 --> 00:39:07,667
- How long does it take,
the whole process

645
00:39:07,750 --> 00:39:09,792
if everything went
really smooth?

646
00:39:09,875 --> 00:39:14,500
- For you to be on a board,

647
00:39:14,583 --> 00:39:17,416
not before four months.

648
00:39:19,416 --> 00:39:23,333
- The doctor so gently
explained to us

649
00:39:23,416 --> 00:39:25,083
that it was pretty much
fractured in, like,

650
00:39:25,166 --> 00:39:29,083
eight places, needed a plate
and all these screws, and...

651
00:39:33,249 --> 00:39:34,583
Kay.

652
00:39:37,458 --> 00:39:39,500
It was, like,
playing back to me, like,

653
00:39:39,583 --> 00:39:41,667
the shoulder and the months
of depression,

654
00:39:41,750 --> 00:39:45,124
and I was like,
I can't--I cannot do it again.

655
00:40:09,999 --> 00:40:16,958
♪ ♪

656
00:40:20,208 --> 00:40:24,124
- Thank you for coming in.
- You're welcome.

657
00:40:24,208 --> 00:40:25,667
- When I got the wipeout,

658
00:40:25,750 --> 00:40:27,875
my family flashed
between my eyes

659
00:40:27,958 --> 00:40:30,541
and them losing me.

660
00:40:30,625 --> 00:40:33,124
There's always the potential
of getting injured lurking

661
00:40:33,208 --> 00:40:36,875
in the back of my mind
since the shoulder surgery

662
00:40:36,958 --> 00:40:39,833
that makes me think twice
about everything.

663
00:40:41,375 --> 00:40:47,917
♪ ♪

664
00:40:47,999 --> 00:40:49,792
[grunts]

665
00:41:10,041 --> 00:41:14,124
- Feel good, in good hands.

666
00:41:14,208 --> 00:41:18,291
To be honest, when I got hurt,
I was almost relieved.

667
00:41:18,375 --> 00:41:21,625
I feel like I need
a little more time.

668
00:41:21,708 --> 00:41:24,333
When my body feels 100%,

669
00:41:24,416 --> 00:41:27,625
the big wave will come.

670
00:41:27,708 --> 00:41:30,124
And if I feel like riding it,
I will.

671
00:41:30,208 --> 00:41:33,333
♪ ♪

672
00:41:33,416 --> 00:41:35,917
[monitor beeping]

673
00:41:54,583 --> 00:41:57,999
Today, my flight leaves
at 1:00 from Bristol.

674
00:41:58,083 --> 00:42:00,875
I'm flying to Nazaré.

675
00:42:00,958 --> 00:42:05,208
I've got sort of physical
training to begin with

676
00:42:05,291 --> 00:42:06,708
and hopefully some waves,

677
00:42:06,792 --> 00:42:12,333
and then sort of
big wave season kicks off.

678
00:42:12,416 --> 00:42:14,541
- What's a quart graph?
Okay.

679
00:42:14,625 --> 00:42:18,708
- A what?
- A quart graph.

680
00:42:18,792 --> 00:42:21,166
- No idea.
I can't do any of that.

681
00:42:21,249 --> 00:42:23,166
- It's mental, isn't it?
- Yeah.

682
00:42:23,249 --> 00:42:27,375
- It's like, why would you even
need to know that, though?

683
00:42:27,458 --> 00:42:29,875
Ace, he likes it
when I'm injured

684
00:42:29,958 --> 00:42:31,208
'cause, you know,
I'm home more,

685
00:42:31,291 --> 00:42:35,583
and yeah, you miss him,
you know.

686
00:42:35,667 --> 00:42:37,249
You do sort of think,
you know, like,

687
00:42:37,333 --> 00:42:38,458
"What's it all about?

688
00:42:38,541 --> 00:42:41,750
Is it really worth putting
everything on the line?"

689
00:42:48,625 --> 00:42:50,500
- All right?
- Yeah.

690
00:42:50,583 --> 00:42:52,708
- But you don't fear death,
you know?

691
00:42:52,792 --> 00:42:54,958
Like, I don't fear dying.

692
00:42:58,917 --> 00:43:03,083
But I get more fearful
of, like,

693
00:43:03,166 --> 00:43:04,583
not being able to surf again,
you know?

694
00:43:04,667 --> 00:43:07,375
Like, I fear that.

695
00:43:07,458 --> 00:43:12,667
♪ ♪

696
00:43:20,833 --> 00:43:22,583
- Technically shouldn't even
have been able

697
00:43:22,667 --> 00:43:25,958
to surf that season,
but Garrett had his mind set

698
00:43:26,041 --> 00:43:27,667
on getting back as soon
as possible

699
00:43:27,750 --> 00:43:30,792
I think because he knew
I was so mad he broke his foot

700
00:43:30,875 --> 00:43:34,041
that he was like, "I better,
like, get it better fast."

701
00:43:34,124 --> 00:43:35,249
- How are you?

702
00:43:35,333 --> 00:43:36,541
- Good.

703
00:43:37,833 --> 00:43:40,458
- That's the least excited
I've ever heard you say it.

704
00:43:40,541 --> 00:43:43,208
- Well, I'm good,
but I'm just--you know,

705
00:43:43,291 --> 00:43:48,416
I got six weeks of off the foot
and six weeks of rehab,

706
00:43:48,500 --> 00:43:51,375
and that's
the best case scenario.

707
00:43:54,083 --> 00:43:56,458
[exhales]

708
00:43:56,541 --> 00:43:59,208
- I think Garrett
definitely feels pressure

709
00:43:59,291 --> 00:44:01,458
to get out there.

710
00:44:01,541 --> 00:44:03,166
I'm sure some people
really look forward

711
00:44:03,249 --> 00:44:05,166
to seeing him surf,
and the Portuguese people

712
00:44:05,249 --> 00:44:07,708
definitely love seeing him
getting out there and surf.

713
00:44:10,083 --> 00:44:11,541
- Ah.
- Yeah.

714
00:44:13,500 --> 00:44:16,208
- When we first came here,
nobody knew who Garrett was

715
00:44:16,291 --> 00:44:18,249
because this was not
a surfing town.

716
00:44:18,333 --> 00:44:19,999
It wasn't a surfing country.

717
00:44:20,083 --> 00:44:21,625
[upbeat music]

718
00:44:21,708 --> 00:44:24,124
But now he's like
the George Clooney

719
00:44:24,208 --> 00:44:25,500
of Portugal.

720
00:44:25,583 --> 00:44:26,833
- [speaking Portuguese]

721
00:44:26,917 --> 00:44:29,625
- It's amazing how much
just seeing him

722
00:44:29,708 --> 00:44:31,375
lights the Portuguese
people up.

723
00:44:31,458 --> 00:44:33,124
[horn honks]

724
00:44:54,458 --> 00:44:57,917
- He showed that we are
a surfing country.

725
00:44:57,999 --> 00:45:00,124
We can attract the best
athletes in the world

726
00:45:00,208 --> 00:45:03,333
to do things that
for common mortals

727
00:45:03,416 --> 00:45:05,792
are completely impossible.

728
00:45:05,875 --> 00:45:08,333
- Looking good.

729
00:45:08,416 --> 00:45:10,416
- The old ladies love him.

730
00:45:15,083 --> 00:45:16,875
- How you doing?
- Fine.

731
00:45:16,958 --> 00:45:18,416
- Been a while, huh?
- Yes.

732
00:45:30,583 --> 00:45:32,041
- We have a bunch
of friends coming over,

733
00:45:32,124 --> 00:45:33,041
so I would love
to get some fish,

734
00:45:33,124 --> 00:45:34,541
whatever you guys recommend.

735
00:45:34,625 --> 00:45:36,166
- Okay.
- [laughs]

736
00:45:36,249 --> 00:45:38,500
- The king of Nazaré!

737
00:45:44,249 --> 00:45:47,416
- Let's have a look
at your X-ray.

738
00:45:47,500 --> 00:45:51,166
So everything seems to be okay.

739
00:45:51,249 --> 00:45:53,792
He's moving already
his foot a lot,

740
00:45:53,875 --> 00:45:55,458
no need to move more.

741
00:45:55,541 --> 00:45:58,500
We have to go slowly
but surely.

742
00:46:04,083 --> 00:46:06,166
Seems to be healed.

743
00:46:07,333 --> 00:46:08,917
- Well, I'm glad
I got the surgery

744
00:46:08,999 --> 00:46:11,750
'cause it feels great.

745
00:46:11,833 --> 00:46:14,291
- Last one.

746
00:46:14,375 --> 00:46:16,458
You did it.
- Oh, my goodness!

747
00:46:16,541 --> 00:46:19,500
[laughs]
Good job.

748
00:46:20,833 --> 00:46:23,667
After the surgery,
there was no pain.

749
00:46:23,750 --> 00:46:26,041
It was a miracle.

750
00:46:29,583 --> 00:46:31,583
I told Nicole,
"I am not gonna do anything.

751
00:46:31,667 --> 00:46:35,124
I'm just gonna stay here,
focus on healing my foot."

752
00:46:35,208 --> 00:46:38,458
And then I said to myself,
"Man, I got all this time.

753
00:46:38,541 --> 00:46:41,375
I might as well utilize it."

754
00:46:41,458 --> 00:46:44,792
And I've never been to Africa.

755
00:46:44,875 --> 00:46:46,917
[drums thrumming]

756
00:46:46,999 --> 00:46:50,500
- So Garrett and CJ
went to Angola

757
00:46:50,583 --> 00:46:52,458
for a beach cleanup.

758
00:46:52,541 --> 00:46:54,625
♪ ♪

759
00:46:54,708 --> 00:46:58,124
And then they went
to South Africa

760
00:46:58,208 --> 00:47:02,833
to work with Waves for Change
who provide surf therapy

761
00:47:02,917 --> 00:47:06,583
and mentorship to
underprivileged youth there.

762
00:47:06,667 --> 00:47:09,083
- So is everybody ready to get
in the water?

763
00:47:09,166 --> 00:47:11,208
all: Yes!

764
00:47:11,291 --> 00:47:12,999
- Let's go surfing!

765
00:47:13,083 --> 00:47:14,583
[all cheer]

766
00:47:14,667 --> 00:47:21,708
♪ ♪

767
00:47:23,291 --> 00:47:26,124
- And then we went to New York
because Garrett had a meeting

768
00:47:26,208 --> 00:47:28,500
to build a survival suit.

769
00:47:28,583 --> 00:47:31,625
- We're in New York,
and my buddy Kyle

770
00:47:31,708 --> 00:47:33,500
is helping me put together
a suit

771
00:47:33,583 --> 00:47:34,833
that I've been dreaming
about making

772
00:47:34,917 --> 00:47:37,124
for the last 15 years.

773
00:47:37,208 --> 00:47:40,500
There's no real solid suit
for waves over 80 feet.

774
00:47:40,583 --> 00:47:43,500
- See if there's things
we need to add in.

775
00:47:43,583 --> 00:47:47,333
- The survival suits in 2011
that we used,

776
00:47:47,416 --> 00:47:51,500
most of them were, like,
Garrett's kind of creation,

777
00:47:51,583 --> 00:47:56,500
and it's just taking, like,
flotation from life vests

778
00:47:56,583 --> 00:47:59,124
and just stuffing
into the wetsuit

779
00:47:59,208 --> 00:48:01,083
in the spots that you need it.

780
00:48:01,166 --> 00:48:04,750
Now the evolution is having
a bladder that inflates

781
00:48:04,833 --> 00:48:09,416
when we pull a cord.

782
00:48:09,500 --> 00:48:10,958
- Crazy, isn't it?

783
00:48:11,041 --> 00:48:13,249
- So Garrett's trying
to design a suit

784
00:48:13,333 --> 00:48:14,833
that's as comfortable
as possible,

785
00:48:14,917 --> 00:48:16,875
so you can be fully free
and mobile

786
00:48:16,958 --> 00:48:20,667
but also really solid and safe.

787
00:48:20,750 --> 00:48:23,333
- Once in a while in Nazaré,
you come up,

788
00:48:23,416 --> 00:48:25,541
and then there's this monster,

789
00:48:25,625 --> 00:48:27,166
and you gotta try
and swim through it.

790
00:48:27,249 --> 00:48:30,708
You deflate real quick while
you're waiting and then, ahh!

791
00:48:30,792 --> 00:48:36,041
Get through, and then you can
have another one breaking,

792
00:48:36,124 --> 00:48:38,917
and...

793
00:48:38,999 --> 00:48:42,249
- I think building
this ultimate survival suit

794
00:48:42,333 --> 00:48:44,583
is gonna give Garrett
the confidence he needs

795
00:48:44,667 --> 00:48:49,249
to do this for as long
as he wants into his old age,

796
00:48:49,333 --> 00:48:52,416
and it's just gonna, like,
keep him together like armor.

797
00:48:52,500 --> 00:48:55,792
- Whoa, holy shit.
- [laughs]

798
00:48:59,500 --> 00:49:02,416
[soft music]

799
00:49:02,500 --> 00:49:04,708
- When I got on the plane
to Nazaré,

800
00:49:04,792 --> 00:49:06,750
my foot was feeling great.

801
00:49:06,833 --> 00:49:10,249
By the time we got off,
it was swollen and sore,

802
00:49:10,333 --> 00:49:14,124
and I thought maybe
I reinjured it somehow

803
00:49:14,208 --> 00:49:18,249
from sitting with my foot down
for too long.

804
00:49:18,333 --> 00:49:20,375
- Traveling's, like,
the last thing you want to do

805
00:49:20,458 --> 00:49:21,583
with a broken foot.

806
00:49:21,667 --> 00:49:23,416
- Do you see it?

807
00:49:23,500 --> 00:49:27,166
- He was feeling frustration
from what I could see of,

808
00:49:27,249 --> 00:49:29,124
you know,
having to do all these things

809
00:49:29,208 --> 00:49:32,708
and wanting to really take
care of his foot.

810
00:49:32,792 --> 00:49:35,124
And then there was waves
of being grumpy.

811
00:49:35,208 --> 00:49:36,625
You know,
you're pinned on the couch.

812
00:49:36,708 --> 00:49:39,541
You can't go anywhere.
You start snapping at people.

813
00:49:41,917 --> 00:49:44,166
[child cries]

814
00:49:45,541 --> 00:49:48,625
- I've never been so unprepared
to ride a big wave

815
00:49:48,708 --> 00:49:50,625
ever in my life.

816
00:49:50,708 --> 00:49:53,541
I got to Africa
and ran around.

817
00:49:54,917 --> 00:49:57,792
Then I went to New York
and ran around.

818
00:49:57,875 --> 00:50:00,958
And it's only
my own self-sabotage

819
00:50:01,041 --> 00:50:04,708
that I did by choice.

820
00:50:04,792 --> 00:50:07,667
And I could've said,
"Sorry, no, I'm staying home.

821
00:50:07,750 --> 00:50:10,249
I need to focus on my foot."

822
00:50:11,208 --> 00:50:13,166
And I thought it was
a good idea

823
00:50:13,249 --> 00:50:14,667
because I couldn't surf,

824
00:50:14,750 --> 00:50:16,500
so I might as well do
other things,

825
00:50:16,583 --> 00:50:19,875
but to get back in the water,
you gotta focus

826
00:50:19,958 --> 00:50:22,333
on getting back in the water,
not doing other things.

827
00:50:22,416 --> 00:50:25,833
Check out the storm, CJ.

828
00:50:25,917 --> 00:50:29,208
It's as big as we've seen.

829
00:50:29,291 --> 00:50:32,333
60 to 80 feet
on Wednesday, magic.

830
00:50:32,416 --> 00:50:34,833
Straight down the pipe.
- Huge, huh?

831
00:50:34,917 --> 00:50:36,792
- Huge.
- Look at the center of it.

832
00:50:36,875 --> 00:50:39,500
- The wave that I've been
dreaming about for years is

833
00:50:39,583 --> 00:50:41,875
actually on the maps
and potentially coming in,

834
00:50:41,958 --> 00:50:47,792
and I'm 100% not ready
physically.

835
00:50:49,792 --> 00:50:51,667
I could ride it,
and if I make it,

836
00:50:51,750 --> 00:50:55,041
I'll be fine, but if I don't,

837
00:50:55,124 --> 00:50:58,208
there's a potential
of not coming home.

838
00:50:58,291 --> 00:51:01,917
[soft music]

839
00:51:01,999 --> 00:51:05,541
- Garrett don't have to stay
20 hours on the water now.

840
00:51:05,625 --> 00:51:08,583
He have kids.
He have family.

841
00:51:08,667 --> 00:51:11,708
He have to make all
the stuff there,

842
00:51:11,792 --> 00:51:13,667
and he have to calm down
a little bit.

843
00:51:13,750 --> 00:51:15,291
- [grunts]

844
00:51:17,792 --> 00:51:19,124
- No.

845
00:51:24,833 --> 00:51:27,625
And he's the best of the world.

846
00:51:27,708 --> 00:51:31,375
I think Garrett have
to stay around, and have fun,

847
00:51:31,458 --> 00:51:35,875
and take control of the life,
and growing up with the kids,

848
00:51:35,958 --> 00:51:38,750
and that's it.

849
00:51:38,833 --> 00:51:43,917
I think it's
the most difficult decision

850
00:51:43,999 --> 00:51:49,708
to look at the mirror and say,
it's time to stop.

851
00:51:49,792 --> 00:51:53,792
I think a surf guy
never feel that.

852
00:51:53,875 --> 00:51:57,541
- I do not know when
big wave surfers finally say

853
00:51:57,625 --> 00:51:59,792
they've had enough.

854
00:51:59,875 --> 00:52:02,375
Haven't seen it yet.
[chuckles]

855
00:52:04,291 --> 00:52:07,625
- There's a point in surfing
when it might end up

856
00:52:07,708 --> 00:52:10,958
becoming selfish when you're
not putting your family first.

857
00:52:11,041 --> 00:52:15,124
And I think Garrett's been
fighting the demons,

858
00:52:15,208 --> 00:52:17,833
and I think there's gonna be
a time when Garrett

859
00:52:17,917 --> 00:52:21,667
has to hang it up, call it
a day, call it a career,

860
00:52:21,750 --> 00:52:24,750
and be there for his family,
and kids, and things,

861
00:52:24,833 --> 00:52:28,166
and not risk his life
for the 100-foot wave

862
00:52:28,249 --> 00:52:30,041
'cause it may never happen.

863
00:52:32,208 --> 00:52:36,792
- I think it's personal when
you decide when the end is.

864
00:52:36,875 --> 00:52:40,124
When you lose
the emotional capacity

865
00:52:40,208 --> 00:52:42,041
to be able to go do it,

866
00:52:42,124 --> 00:52:44,291
then I think
the physical leaves.

867
00:52:44,375 --> 00:52:46,124
And I think some people,
that never ends.

868
00:52:46,208 --> 00:52:47,999
Maybe some people,
they just don't ever

869
00:52:48,083 --> 00:52:51,041
not want that feeling.

870
00:52:51,124 --> 00:52:54,208
- I don't think you call it
a day on surfing.

871
00:52:54,291 --> 00:52:56,458
I think maybe you'd call it
a day on, like,

872
00:52:56,541 --> 00:53:00,500
chasing it and risking it all.

873
00:53:00,583 --> 00:53:03,333
But you don't call it a day
on surfing, do you?

874
00:53:03,416 --> 00:53:06,667
[dramatic string music]

875
00:53:06,750 --> 00:53:08,500
- Portuguese authorities
have now

876
00:53:08,583 --> 00:53:11,500
issued a red weather warning.

877
00:53:11,583 --> 00:53:14,583
They say coastal areas are
likely to get a battering

878
00:53:14,667 --> 00:53:16,500
from the incoming
weather front.

879
00:53:16,583 --> 00:53:19,333
♪ ♪

880
00:53:19,416 --> 00:53:21,166
- Strengthening storm
is expected

881
00:53:21,249 --> 00:53:23,333
to bring downpours
and strong winds.

882
00:53:23,416 --> 00:53:26,667
♪ ♪

883
00:53:26,750 --> 00:53:28,833
- Of course,
apart from wind and rain,

884
00:53:28,917 --> 00:53:33,124
this storm could also generate
significant surf conditions.

885
00:53:33,208 --> 00:53:36,208
- Luigi texts back,

886
00:53:36,291 --> 00:53:38,875
"Guy who really want
to see his X-rays."

887
00:53:38,958 --> 00:53:41,875
He said, "Good."
Yes!

888
00:53:41,958 --> 00:53:43,208
Time to rock and roll.

889
00:53:43,291 --> 00:53:47,124
Now it's time to get serious,
time to train hard.

890
00:53:47,208 --> 00:53:50,041
Time to get CJ in the water.

891
00:53:50,124 --> 00:53:54,208
Time to get in the water
real soon.

892
00:53:54,291 --> 00:53:56,750
I'll be driving the jet ski,
maybe surfing.

893
00:53:56,833 --> 00:54:00,999
♪ ♪

894
00:54:01,083 --> 00:54:03,999
[upbeat music]

895
00:54:04,083 --> 00:54:11,083
♪ ♪

896
00:55:10,708 --> 00:55:12,541
[bright tone]

897
00:55:14,541 --> 00:55:16,541
SPEAKER: I want to thank you
for coming to the inaugural,

898
00:55:16,625 --> 00:55:18,041
Nazare, pro-surfing challenge.

899
00:55:18,583 --> 00:55:21,124
This is gonna be
the greatest show in surfing.

900
00:55:21,208 --> 00:55:22,291
♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYS) ♪

901
00:55:22,375 --> 00:55:23,917
SPEAKER 2:
Every important big-wave surfer,

902
00:55:23,999 --> 00:55:25,041
everyone's there.

903
00:55:25,249 --> 00:55:28,041
SPEAKER 3: Justine is one
of the standout surfers.

904
00:55:28,625 --> 00:55:31,041
Everyone wants that wave
that's gonna make your career.

905
00:55:31,124 --> 00:55:33,708
SPEAKER 4: But they've got
some serious competition.

906
00:55:34,249 --> 00:55:37,083
Garrett's the ultimate example
of the old guard.

907
00:55:37,166 --> 00:55:39,917
The new guard is represented
by Kai Lenny.

908
00:55:41,291 --> 00:55:43,416
Just like you're going
to the Super Bowl of surfing.

909
00:55:43,500 --> 00:55:45,875
I can't wait to see
these guys out there

910
00:55:46,124 --> 00:55:48,166
giving it their best,
and it's gonna be a great show.

911
00:55:48,541 --> 00:55:49,999
SPEAKER 5: Go, go, go, go.

912
00:55:50,083 --> 00:55:51,875
(WAVE CRASHING)

913
00:55:51,958 --> 00:55:55,124
♪ (SOLEMN OUTRO MUSIC PLAYS) ♪


