spinchts maverick is like a holy spot for big-wave surfing. neil matthews has been surfing almost all his life, but he s never seen anything like mavericks. if you go to mavericks for your first time, pretty much no matter where you surfed before and what big wave experience you ve had, you will find it to be remarkable. they ve measured waves up to like 70 feet. and they actually get bigger than that. grant washburn has been surfing and shooting the giant waves of mavericks for almost two decades. he s seen some incredible surfing and insane wipeouts. it s not necessarily harder to ride big waves. the stakes are higher, and they are punished more severely. so if you make a big mistake at mavericks, it will be unlike anything else that would happen to a surfer anywhere else.