La Vida Loca

“I roll up into a tiny ball, as small as possible, pull my legs in and wrap my arms around my knees. That’s the best way to prevent the wave ripping one of your limbs off.”

Vincent Cook is not a big guy. Which makes it harder to fathom how he survives some of the waves he takes off on. Standing at around 5'10, he has a body-fat ratio that would make a Kenyan marathon runner envious. Yet he can consistently be found hurling himself over the ledge on some of the heaviest beachbreak waves in the world, way down Mexico way. He’s busy describing his survival technique for coping with the inevitable wipeouts that come from this endeavour, earned through years of brutal