Two thrill-seeking surfers have exchanged blows in the water after they fought over an enormous wave brought on from Cyclone Oma.
Video footage showed the two men sharing a huge wave along a beach at Kirra in the Gold Coast on Friday.
After their surfboards nearly crossed paths, the wave took the pair of surfers under the water.
Video footage showed the two men sharing a huge wave along a beach at Kirra in the Gold Coast on Friday
As they came back to the surface, one of the men went to throw a punch at the other one, the 9 News footage shows.
Under a volley of punches, the man sinks back and even has to duck his head back under the water to avoid the blows.
The scuffle in the water comes even though residents along parts of the Queensland and NSW coasts have been warned to stay away from beaches as gale force winds whip up metre high waves.
Already waves off the Sunshine Coast have been measured as high as 13 metres.
The wild weather is feared to hold up throughout the week due to Cyclone Oma.
Two thrill-seeking surfers have exchanged blows in the water after they fought over an enormous wave brought on from Cyclone Oma
At this stage the cyclone has been downgraded to a category one system and is not expected to make landfall.
Most computer models suggest Oma will get within 500km of south-east Queensland by Saturday, but the storm, dubbed 'Omageddon' on social media, remains highly unpredictable.
'[It will turn] towards the north-west on the weekend. What happens beyond this remains difficult to figure out,' Weatherzone's Ben Domensino said.
The Bureau of Meteorology has cancelled tropical cyclone flood watches, but will continue to track its movements.
'We will certainly continue to keep a close eye on this cyclone, until it no longer poses a threat,' BoM Queensland state manager Bruce Gunn said.
Despite the weaker state of the weather system, beaches along parts of the Queensland and and far northern NSW coasts have been closed (pictured, crowds watch huge waves and surfers at Snapper Rocks on Thursday)
A hazardous surf warning is in place from the Capricornia Coast right down to the New South Wales border 750km away, with huge swells of up to eight metres and abnormally high tides set to pummel the coast in the coming days (pictured, sand is blown while women take photographs at a beach on the Gold Coast)
Despite the weaker state of the weather system, beaches along parts of the Queensland and and far northern NSW coasts have been closed.
A hazardous surf warning is in place from the Capricornia Coast right down to the New South Wales border 750km away, with huge swells of up to eight metres and abnormally high tides set to pummel the coast in the coming days.
Surf forecaster Ben Macartney said king tides and the relentless thrashing of Queensland's coast will spark the worst erosion in recent memory.
'It's phenomenal really. We are looking at an exceptional swell event,' Mr Macartney told
