Maya and the Wave | movie | 2024 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

After a brush with death, Maya Gabeira makes history in the male-dominated world of big wave surfing. | dG1fNDRFbFpfZHFnTUE

Transcript

00:00I had a journal when I was a teenager, and I had written that I was going to surf the biggest wave ever.

00:07As big as it gets.

00:10Maya Cabrera is one of the world's elite big wave surfers.

00:13She didn't have much talent, but she would train so hard.

00:18I'm not a model, I'm a surfer.

00:20Carlos introduced me, and I'm teaching Maya how to toe surf, and I'm like, are you kidding me?

00:25I was very worried, and then I saw her surfing.

00:31Maya Cabrera, thanks to my family, my sponsors.

00:34Maya Cabrera has been five times world champion.

00:38I was born a dreamer.

00:41We found the holy grail of big waves.

00:44Nazaré, more challenging than any wave in the world.

00:48This place that they were pioneering sounded like mayhem.

00:52Okay, I gotta go to this place.

00:55When I saw the wave coming, it was a mountain.

01:00I remember hitting it and falling backwards,

01:05and seeing the lip coming over me.

01:08And then she disappears.

01:11So many people believed I wasn't gonna come back.

01:14Maya should not be in this kind of surf.

01:18I'm a woman in a man's world.

01:20You can never be braver than them.

01:23At the beginning came the physical trauma, now is the trauma of the soul.

01:30I came so close to doing what I've wanted to do my whole career, my whole life.

01:37She comes back to surf the biggest wave a woman has ever surfed.

01:40That should have been the sports highlight of the year.

01:43Hi, I'm Maya Cabrera, big wave surfer, and I need your help.

01:47Hi Maya, I love your story.

01:49People often ask if I don't feel fear.

01:53I do it because I'm afraid.

01:55Is this Maya here?

01:56Oh my God.

02:00Maya Cabrera