Robby Naish - SUP Surfing Hawaii Big Waves Challenge.

Robbie Nash was an integral part in the development of modern day windsurfing. His amazing professional career and his vision for modern day water sports allowed him to constantly push the limits and branch off into kiteboarding and stand-up paddling. Windsurfing for sure pioneered big wave, at least modern big wave riding. It was the windsurfers that first started attacking consistently these outer reefs, big backyards, big phantoms and revies. Jaws, we were windsurfing Jaws before there was anybody towing it. And then it was the windsurfers that started towing Jaws. The drive of somebody like him where you get a bad beating, but you go again. But in the end, you might learn something from it that you apply the next time. And I mean, looking at his career, he's definitely one of those. You know, I was younger. I was like, yeah, go. And now I'm very apprehensive. You know, when I go to Jaws, I'm a lot more methodical than I used to be. You know, I'm a father again. I got grandkids. And that starts to turn the wheels in your head that, you know, I wish that I was still just balls to the wall charging. But a huge wave is now, even for me, something that, you know, I got to shake my head. Really think about it a few times before I dive in. Stand-up is very similar to my surfing, where the bigger the waves get, the better I get. But I have an appreciation for any size wave on a stand-up. If it's this big, I can take the right board and have really a lot of fun stand-up surfing. So it's different for me than shortboarding. Shortboarding, I just can't get my timing surfing. On a stand-up, I can get my timing on anything. When stand-up came along, it was like everything clicked. And I was like, okay, that's what I've been looking for in my surfing all my life. Well, I've been looking at coming to Costa Rica for years now. I've been surfing my whole life. I windsurf, I kite surf, I stand-up, I tow. And we found that stand-up is a really good vehicle for really taking advantage of long waves. And kind of came up with this project with Red Bull together to try and find, like, the longest waves in the world. So this is kind of the first part of this ongoing mission to hopefully go and surf some of the best, longest waves.