If I had all of those things under control, it was one less thing to worry about when it actually came to surfing Jaws," he said. I worked with a number of people, who prepared me for the night surfing. "The training with the coaches was tough. Months of preparation were undertaken, which involved working with safety teams, special-forces and a number of coaches, who showed Visser a number of techniques designed to allow him to best cope in the event of something going wrong. With the night surf session being filmed in January, a large bulk of the documentary was filmed beforehand. Other big wave surfers said it wasn't safe enough to do, but I wanted to push myself and get out of the comfort zone." "I became a bit of a nutty professor in looking at all the options of making something like this happen. Was this achievable? Could it be possible?," Visser told The Australian. A friend told me that he had a dream about a guy who rode waves at night, which got me thinking. Visser's preparation and big wave skills have come together in a television documentary "Night Rider" to feature on Channel Nine this Sunday. Visser is one of the brightest big wave talents in the world, pushing his body physically and focussing mentally to undertake on of the most dangerous pastimes known to man. Sunshine Coast's Mark Visser had it on his list of "things to achieve in life" and in January this year crossed it off after taking on monster waves, some with 50-foot faces in the dark at the famed Jaws break in Maui. TALK to any big wave surfer about their adventures and you will almost certainly be moved to consider them crazy.īut what if they were to take on the big waves at night? Website> Documentary probes big wave night surfing of Mark Visser
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