Her head is about 18 inches off the waves surface. From her perspective the wave spans almost all her eye lens capacity from top to bottom.
A stand-up surfers head would be about 5 feet off the waves face. To have a similar perspective to the mat surfer his lens span would require a wave probably double overhead in size.
This is especially nice for older surfers who would risk really bad injury surfing a double overhead wave. Add in the tactile feeling of really tucking into a wave physically, the whole length of the body, and even more sense. No risk of this kinda injury:
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| Laid my bike down in a high speed turn last week..... |
