tow-in surfing

The biggest wave one could catch before tow-in surfing was in the 20 foot range.

Tow-in surfing can be quite dangerous without proper training.

Tow-in surfing differs from regular surfing in several different ways.

The agency is in the early stages of its policy review, and a ruling on tow-in surfing is probably three years away.

Tow-in surfing was invented by surfers who wanted to catch big waves and break the 30 foot barrier.

This island has recently been discovered by the surfing community as a giant point break with proper conditions for Tow-in surfing.

Tow-in surfing, as it became known, pushed the confinements and possibilities of big wave surfing to a new level.

With the advent of tow-in surfing, more and more big wave breaks have been discovered that are far superior in quality to Waimea.

Laird Hamilton, pioneer of tow-in surfing, where a jet ski propels the rider into implausibly huge waves, is the best known.

He also directed Riding Giants, a 2004 documentary of the history of modern big wave surfing and tow-in surfing.

The final chapter belongs to Laird Hamilton, the pioneer of tow-in surfing, which enables surfers to ride waves 60 or more feet high.

The use of a helicopter for tow-in surfing started to appear in the mid 2000s, and has several advantages over the use of a personal watercraft.

Gerry Lopez made further contributions in the development of Windsurfing, circa 1985, and Tow-in surfing, circa 1995.

"Storm Surfers 3D," the latest in a series of films about two Australian big-wave hunters and tow-in surfing, feels something like a breed apart.

Tow-in surfing, as it is called, allows surfers to mount waves like the 50-footers that pound the Cortes Bank 100 miles off San Diego.

Tow-in surfing is accomplished by taking a personal water craft (PWC) and a tow-rope and combining that with a surfer.

Darrick Doerner is a big wave pioneer in the sport of tow-in surfing, in which personal water craft are used to tow surfers into large surf.

In 1992, big wave surfers such as Laird Hamilton and Darrick Doerner introduced a cross over sport called tow-in surfing.

Tow-in surfing is a surfing technique which uses artificial assistance to allow the surfer to catch faster moving waves than was traditionally possible when paddling by hand.

Before tow-in surfing was created, surfers weren't capable of catching waves that were between 30 and 50 feet tall on their surfboards made for larger waves called "guns".

Laird Hamilton (born March 2, 1964) is an American big-wave surfer, co-inventor of tow-in surfing, and an occasional fashion and action-sports model.

With the creation of tow-in surfing, the 'Strapped Crew' together facilitated a quantum leap in surfing, one of the biggest jumps in the history of the sport.

Kalama is credited with the co-development of the big wave surfing technique of tow-in surfing, along with Laird Hamilton, Darrick Doerner, and Buzzy Kerbox.

Although met with mixed reactions from the surfing community, some of whom felt that it was cheating and polluting, Hamilton explained that tow-in surfing was the only way to catch the monstrous sized waves.

JAWS VIDEO GALLERY Amazing video clips of tow-in surfing filmed at the legendary Jaws - Maui.