NOTHING else MATTERS

It COMMANDS so much FOCUS and so much ATTENTION that it’s the ONLY thing that MATTERS.

Maura O’Connor investigated the exciting subculture of big wave surfing to find out why extreme sports like these have become, for many, a kind of modern-day spiritual practice


As surfer Dave Kalama says of his EXPERIENCE riding these enormous waves,

“they are the times when you call upon or you experience the deepest sense of who you are. There is something about riding a sixty-foot wave that draws something out of you. The wave commands so much focus and so much attention that it’s the only thing that matters. "Beyond Limits" article in our June–August 2006 issue of EnlightenNext magazine,

"It’s very purifying, because as far as you’re concerned, NOTHING ELSE exists."