Stand Up Paddle Racing Is the Best Training for Big Waves

"There's no tone surface surfing anymore or tone surfing is on the backburn. It's all about paddling," he says. "If I want to ride Jaws, I got to paddle in and a year later, I had a 10 oh gun." At 17 years old, his only stand up board was a 98-inch wide monster production gun. His dad would take him out for big waves with their jet ski that we'd pay other people to protect.