Big wave surfing has been good to you.

Until that cover came out, big wave surfing was all about taking the drop and getting out alive.

As the name suggests, big wave surfing isn't your average family-friendly pastime.

Big wave surfing has a small but dedicated set of adrenaline junkies chasing giant swells all over the world.

Big wave surfing was boosted with the development of fibreglassed boards with fins.

Big wave surfing is becoming increasingly popular and surfers are beginning to discover previously unknown locations because of the accessibility provided by jet skis.

Mr. Clark said he hand-picked the contestants to assure that only veterans of big wave surfing who know Maverick's could participate.

In the past big wave surfing has been a sport for older people, as they've been the only ones that could afford to drop everything and chase these waves, but that's changing.

(AP)—With big wave surfing's biggest prize at stake, six of the 24 contestants paddled into position half a mile offshore and began careening down the face of 35-foot waves.

Noted for his achievements in the Big Wave Surfing scene, having recently surfed Shipsterns Bluff- a dangerous Tasmanian Big Wave.

The Jay at Maverick's Big Wave Surfing Invitational, near scenic Half Moon Bay, often attracts some of the surfing world's top talent.

As 11-time world champion surfer Kelly Slater recently admitted, big wave surfing "is a whole different ball game" to normal surfing, which had claimed the lives of many of his friends.

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A practice popularized in the 1990s has seen big wave surfing revolutionized, as surfers use personal watercraft to tow them out to a position where they can catch previously unrideable waves (see tow-in surfing).

Big wave surfing originated in the 1990s, when surfers began to make use of water vehicles like jet ski's and speed boats, in order to tow them into waves that they were too large and fast to catch.

Big wave surfing is a discipline within surfing in which experienced surfers paddle into or are towed onto waves which are at least 20 feet (6.2 m) high, on surf boards known as "guns" or towboards.

Long now has more category wins at the Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards — the Oscars of big wave surfing — than anyone else and is also one of the organizers of the nascent Big Wave World Tour.