Gorge vid from last monday, 6/14

[darrenfowler]

From the Hatch.
The swell looks "off da hook"!!!
http://vimeo.com/12597571

[RickHeninger]

Ahhhh!!! Want to be there! That looks SOOO fun! We'd be playing! Can't wait... There had to have been a high volume flow of water!

Ummm. Trick at 2:52 ... What?!

I know what it looks like! But I don't know its name or its planet of origin...

[swilliamson]

That's actually Swell City, i think. Called that for a reason. If anyone needs a place to stay up there let me know. susie

[darrenfowler]

Actually that is the Hatchery, filmed right off the point.

[Josh Shirley]

Rick that is my favorite move. There are like three different names for it. Air Tack maybe. Switch Chacho or something like that.

Most guys go switch stance, duck the sail so they are backwinded and then throw it. Once again it is a carving tack similar to a shove it. The back winded sail lifts the board off the water.

So once you get your switch stance duck tack down (on a plane) than you start going for it.

In the video the guy jibes into the trick which is uncommon. I asked Kevin Kan about it and he said there isn't enough speed jibing into the trick unless of course you have a massive swell to through it on.

Here are some recent photos of Kevin Kan doing the trick:
Air-Tack Photo Sequence

[RickHeninger]

What I think is crazy, is how he rises to the crest of the wave timing it perfectly to actually get amazing height for what he's doing! I like it!