Surfing: Extreme Surfing...Extreme Respect

This from Outside magazine perfectly captures my respect for these guys:

However you spin it, the (Billabong) Odyssey surfers are gutsy. Greg Noll, the fearless bull who helped pioneer big-wave surfing in Hawaii in the fifties and sixties, says that taking on waves this big, whoever you are, requires remarkable physical courage. "Anytime somebody has the balls to step up to the edge of the horizon and take a peek over the side where nobody's looked before, they deserve all the respect that they can get,"