It’s been a big-wave couple of weeks in Hawaii and so it’s been a big-wave kinda week around here, too. Maya Gabeira has been notching the bar increasingly higher for women’s tow-in, including this thick-lipped slab at Teahupoo in Tahiti. Maya, you might remember, is credited with the biggest wave ever ridden by a woman and recently was named one of National Geographic Adventure’s Adventurers of the Year. Her frontside barrel is a candidate for the Billabong XXL Ride of the Year. Don’t know that it stacks up against some of the beasts the boys have saddled, but it sure is purty. And it ain’t small.

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