Watch: Aussie Legend Surfs Finless Board on Huge Wave

The legend in question is Cam Scott, a graphic designer, silk screener, and skilled finless surfboard slider. And the wave comes from a wild, utterly massive day at north Bondi Beach. Although quite mushy, the wave is certifiably XL…medium.

Scott scraps into the wave on the soft-top, bellyboards the drop, hits a section and gets launched in the air, then makes it to his feet, slides around, then kicks out before the shorebreak.

Captioning the clip, Scott wrote:

“Finally managed to link a few from the buckler . . . No close out pit on this one but claiming the 8ft long boog straight air Much love to @holdog for the iPhone vij / ridiculous screen grab and @marfellamario for letting me party ”

As one commenter, the filmer of the clip, commented, it was quite the “full send on the shred sled!”

Not quite the type of waves the ancient Hawaiians were riding back in the day at Waikiki on their alaia boards. Not even close. Speaking of which, here’s a little history from Matt Warshaw’s Encyclopedia of Surfing:

“The original alaia was generally made of koa wood (sometimes breadfruit or wiliwili), and was the most suitable type of board for riding the steep, fast-breaking waves common to the Islands. Of the 13 premodern boards housed in Honolulu's Bishop Museum, 10 are alaias, ranging from seven to 12 feet in length, with an average width of 18 inches, and an average thickness of one inch.

“It's believed that most alaia-riding surfers used the lala technique of sliding at an angle along the wave face ahead of the white water. By comparison, the longer, thicker, heavier olo boards—thought to have been reserved for use by royalty only—were likely used to ride straight to shore on waves that were either unbroken or barely cresting.”

The alaia lives on. Sorta…