[video=youtube;s695pzIiRDg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=s695pzIiRDg[/video] talk about a beating lol.im surprised hes only down on average 7 seconds. discuss
Always remember, when paddling out, go straight at the peak, not around! This way you're in the perfect spot once you get past the break!
Think someone posted that a lil bit ago, watching that makes me anxious as fack. Tried to hold my breath during video.
dude got caught also would recommend not talking to the camera but continuing to paddle once the set passed
I felt like that one day in El Salvador. Was sure it was all over for me. Not that big or scary but I was still shaken up and just tumbled to the beach. Got out ready to walk back to the hotel then saw a friend on a nice wave and decided I needed to go back out and get at least one and face my fear. I know how that guy feels, relatively.
at a certain size idk maybe 8ft a duck-dive becomes an exercise in failure. what many guys do in this situation is dive deep well before you get slammed; turn around underwater, grab the leash, gauge (guess) how hard the pull-back is gonna be , and go on an underwater nantucket sleigh ride. the idea being move away from the board so as not to get slammed by it; at the same time using the leash as much as possible without breaking it.
Notice how (1) the distance he is from the peak increases each wave, and (2) how much longer his leash gets!
That dude clearly did not read the "how to duckdive" thread here on SI. At least on the last one he actually managed to keep his big bird board under him. I bet the locals love dropping into a nice wave to have tourists on the inside bobbing up and down like buoys.
Lol, I had my leash stretch to almost twice its length on my El Sal scare. I still have it as a momento of that trip. I was always amazed that it didn't snap. Went from 6 feet to almost 11 feet.
