Surf Talk Guru

Typhoon Choi-Wan’s gift of long interval groundswell and huge waves this weekend on our coast is a real treat for those of us who’ve been biding our time on longboards all summer. The waves are going to get big. Local tow surfers are stoked up about this coming El Nino winter and there are plenty more of these big wave weekends coming up, all the way from this fall to next spring.

There are only a handful of tow-in surfers in Oregon. If you’ve always wanted to try towing in and riding the big ones, but don’t know anyone who does it, you should take a lesson in tow-in surfing. A tow-in surfing lesson would give you the basics and let you practice all the skills: driving the jet ski in the surf, dropping off, picking up, and of course, riding huge waves. You’d be able to find out if you love it, or if it’s not for you. But either way, it would be the experience of a lifetime.