Bring your money and your balls to the North Shore. I would think cold water breaks would not be a good learning ground.

This is the most retarded, redundant, made for flat out ruding thread evaz!!! Go to Puerto and paddle out on a 10'-12' day on a 5'10" twin fin!!! If you dont drowned, you are a big wave surfer and carry on from there!!! Always remember that stupid is as stupid does, and if you ask a dumbass question, expect to get an asshole answer!!! God Bless and stop being such a Barney,... Barney!!!

Tres Palmas is like a slower version of sunset when its big but still doesnt match the north shore. Take a couple weeks and get out to hawaii and work your way up. Get the right board too because a 6'0 thruster used here is almost useless once its overhead there. The waves are very fat and fast; a wave a couple feet overhead looks about as wide as a house. Dont paddle straight out into overhead conditions because you will get your ass kicked and wash up back to shore completely rattled and stunned. A lot of the spots have outer reefs that break when a big set is coming and thats your signal to start paddling further out. When you get steam rolled by a large set HOLD ON TO YOUR BOARD. If you lose it you are probably not going to be able to tread water between waves because there is so much air coming up its almost impossible so you might be holding your breathe for a while. Its worth the experience though. Once you spend a couple weeks getting pounded out there youll have a better idea if you really want to pursue big wave surfing. 

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Time for CROSS-training...take off the leash & go for a paddle/surf/swim

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East winds 15 to 20 knots diminishing to 10 to
15 knots in the afternoon. Seas 7 to 10 feet with a dominant
period 9 seconds. Choppy on the intracoastal waters. Slight
chance of showers.

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Would be cool if you could go out with a buddy get to the outside and give him your board and do the swim in...maybe just easier to swim all the way to the outside, body-surf a few and swim back in.  Endurance and learning to be being alone without any floatation "in the mix". Beats doing yard work.

More X-traning...Merrit Island FunPlex, go to the vert ramp , look over the edge and drop in on the 14 foot extension (if you sk8)..Looking ove the edge of a giant vert ramp saying , routine stuff, no big deal....tail drop and feel the rush. Locally that is about all you can do.  There is a similiar feeling of fear many get when looking over the edge of a 12-14 foot vert ramp. After a while the fear is gone..

I wish.... WT is 53 here 

Bodysurfing in big surf can sometimes be really fun and its a hell of a workout. Lol

Video

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