“I’ve seen so many of these crazy swells over the years.”

Soli Bailey is sitting in the channel at Cloudbreak, remembering something he saw on the screen as a grom — the vision of Bruce Irons on a big orange board, driving into massive Cloudbreak on the day of the year. That was in 2011, and the ride Soli watched back then was shot by Surfline’s founder and guiding light, Sean Collins. Soli’s since made himself into one of the world’s finest surfers, and yesterday he found himself in the spot for one of those astonishing bluebird rides a long eight or ten seconds of triple plus overhead tropical hollowness, through which he held a line to the finish. “Still shaking, man,” he told SL’s ace correspondent Chris Peel, holding on to Peely’s ski. Watch above to see just why.

Filmed by Chris Peel and Sean Collins

Music: PRESSURE! (Instrumental Version) Nyck

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