"The best wave is the one you don't think you'll make."
That's 22-year-old Laurie Towner's surf philosophy in a nutshell and it earned him $20,000.
Laurie, from Yamba in northern NSW, won Biggest Wave in the Oakley Surfing Life Big Wave Awards at a crazy presentation evening in Bondi, where the cream of Aussie and New Zealand megasurf chargers gathered to honour their finest rides of the past year.
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