{"id":159452,"date":"2020-11-23T21:29:05","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T04:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=159452"},"modified":"2020-11-23T21:29:05","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T04:29:05","slug":"training-for-big-wave-surfing-its-all-in-your-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=159452","title":{"rendered":"Training for Big-Wave Surfing? It&#8217;s All in Your Head."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__subtitle subtitle\"><em>How Spain&#8217;s Natxo Gonz\u00e1lez prepares his body and mind to tackle the biggest swell on earth<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Natxo Gonz\u00e1lez paddles a thin line. At 25, the professional big-wave surfer from Spain\u2019s Basque Country has already challenged some of the most legendary waves on the planet, riding giants at Punta Galea near Bilbao and picture-perfect tubes at Namibia\u2019s Skeleton Bay. But he also nearly lost it all in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Surfing Nazar\u00e9, in Portugal, a wave that can reach up to 80 feet in height, Gonz\u00e1lez crashed at high speed. His inflatable life vest, a survival tool adopted by nearly every big-wave surfer, failed to inflate, and he had to endure a massive five-wave set, where\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/2418842\/naxto-gonzalez-big-wave-surfing-nazare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Spain&#8217;s Natxo Gonz\u00e1lez prepares his body and mind to tackle the biggest swell on earth Natxo Gonz\u00e1lez paddles a thin line. At 25, the professional big-wave surfer from Spain\u2019s Basque Country has already challenged some of the most legendary waves on the planet, riding giants at Punta Galea near Bilbao and picture-perfect tubes at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159453,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159452\/revisions\/159453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}