Portugal’s notorious big wave spot Nazaré is home to the biggest waves in the world.
Need proof? In 2020, German big wave surfer Sebastian Steudtner surfed an 86-foot wave at Nazaré and made it into the Guinness Book of World Records for the “Biggest Wave Ever Surfed.”
While the wave itself is not for the faint of heart, neither is navigating the lineup on a jet ski, as shown in the video below.
Red Bull Surfing captioned the clip above:
“@natxogonzalez1 takes you for a driver’s seat view of what it’s like to navigate the waters of Nazare 🤯”
In the clip above, European big wave surfer and Basque countryman Natxo Gonzalez invites viewers along to witness the chaos of navigating a jet ski around Nazaré.
And it’s nuts, to say the least.
Narrating the clip, he says:
“Focus, focus, no stress.
“The waves are coming from all sides, you know? When you want to jump in the whitewater you have to go really straight. But when you want to cross a line that is standing up, you have to go sideways, like surfing the waves to not jump and don’t lose the ski or don’t hurt yourself, you know?
“When I started to surf Nazaré, I used to paddle out from the south beach, like a 45-minute paddle because I didn’t have a jet ski at that time. I was young, you know? That was a little unconscious.
“I think the safety is the most important thing in big wave surfing.”
Most recently, Gonzalez appeared in a new release by Tim Bonython and Surfing Visions with a big wave crew surfing mental Morocco. Watch it here.
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