Maya and the Wave | Official Trailer

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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, as big as it gets.

00:09Maia Cabrera is one of the world's elite big wave surfers.

00:12She didn't have much talent, but she would train so hard.

00:17I'm not a model, I'm a surfer.

00:19Carlos introduced me, and I'm teaching Maia how to do surfing, and I'm like, are you kidding me?

00:24I was very worried, and then I saw her surfing.

00:30Maia Cabrera, thanks to my family, my sponsors.

00:33Maia Cabrera has been world champion five times.

00:37I was born a dreamer.

00:40We found the holy grail of big waves.

00:43Nazaré, more challenging than any wave in the world.

00:47This place that they were pioneering sounded like mayhem.

00:51Okay, I gotta go to this place.

00:54When I saw the wave coming, it was a mountain.

00:59I remember hitting it and falling backwards.

01:04And seeing the lip coming over me.

01:07And then she disappears.

01:10So many people believed I wasn't gonna come back.

01:13Maia should not be in this kind of surf.

01:17I'm a woman in a man's world.

01:19You can never be braver than them.

01:22At the beginning came the physical trauma, now is the trauma of the soul.

01:29I'm so close to doing what I've wanted to do my whole career, my whole life.

01:36She comes back to surf the biggest wave a woman has ever surfed.

01:39That should have been the sports highlight of the year.

01:42Hi, I'm Maia Cabrera, big wave surfer, and I need your help.

01:46Hi Maia, I love your story.

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

01:52I do it because I'm afraid.

01:54Is this Maia here?

01:55Oh my God.

01:58Maia Cabrera.