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