When You're Surfing Big Waves

When you’re surf­ing big waves, it forces you to focus on the surf. It kind of clears your mind. When the surf is smaller, you’re think­ing about the guy next to you, the crowd. But big waves bring you back to the point where you don’t think about any­thing else. You’re just focused. Oth­er­wise, hot dog surf is just drama for me. Peo­ple want to chal­lenge you to a surf-off in the water. Big waves allow me to keep that dis­tance between all of that crap. It keeps peo­ple on the beach and I can be way outside.

- Tyler Hatzikian