Photo: Joao Bracourt
Kathryn speaks with Brazilian bodysurfer Kalani Lattanzi, the twenty-seven year old who has conquered the world's most enormous and notorious waves, including Hawai'i's "Jaws", a five-storey high wave, awesome in the true sense of the word. Jaws is a wall of water named for the size and ferocity of its swells.
It crashes into Peahi, an outer reef on Maui, in Hawai'i. Kalani has ridden it with the help of a small hand ski and a pair of flippers, wearing only togs.
In 2015 Kalani also bodysurfed the world's largest swell in Nazare, Portugal, which can reach one hundred- feet high, or thirty metres.
Kalani Lattanzi astonishes world-beating surfers with the scale of his body surfing, which is considered one of the most extreme sports in the world, up there with extreme mountaineering.
A documentary about him is called "Kalani, Gift from Heaven". Kalani tells Kathryn he can teach anyone to handski.
