While shooting for Taylor Steele’s Proximity, Albee Layer and Shane Dorian headed to Scotland with the express intention of finding terrifying slabs. They succeeded. One such slab they took to calling “Blood Eagle.”
“It’s like an old Viking torture thing,” said Layer.
“You get laid on this rock, and then they separate your shoulder blades, take your lungs out, and put them on your shoulders, and that’s why they call it a blood eagle,” said Shane Dorian. “Because it looks like wings.”
“That is the perfect name for this wave, because it’s so scary,” said Layer. “And that whole area feels so Viking-esque.”
“All the waves we didn’t want, we’d yell BLOOD EAGLE!!”
Consider having your shoulder blades separated. Then consider having your lungs extracted and placed on your shoulders. If a wave can do that to you, it’d probably one we’d pass on, too.
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