Watch: Tom Lowe’s Nazaré Elevator Drop (And Subsequent Beating)

The last few weeks have seen a few remarkable XXL days in the Northeast Atlantic, and soft-spoken, goofyfoot beast killer Tom Lowe nabbed one of of the day’s best waves—a massive, lurching peak, and found himself standing up just in time for take-off, the stiff offshores lifting him sailing with the feathering lip, only to reconnect and cut a line down the wave heart to hip. 

Then things got ugly. Come for the bomb, stay for the beatings.