A man of enviable courage both in and out the water, here he takes the plunge — first figuratively, then literally — on a massive day at the world’s heaviest beachie. Puerto Escondido doesn’t get much bigger than this, and this wipeout is straight-up one of the longest elevator drops we’ve ever seen. “Ooohhh, that was classic,” says one American onlooker unsympathetically, as Ricardo undergoes the Puerto pestle-and-mortar treatment, ground between heaving lip and tightly-packed sand.
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