There's usually some writer, somewhere, writing a fluff piece for some 'outside' mag about how cool it is to learn to do tow-in surfing like "Laird" does.....
All goes well in near shore, practicing in small shorebreak. They drag his ass out in piddling 6' reef break and he actually....falls, gets cleaned up and is towed back to the boat....while kids are paddling into same w/o a jet-ski parking them in the face.
Most of these writer/clowns sheit themselves if/when they actually head out to an off-shore break like Jaws and hear the sound of waves the size of a four-story building breaking over a reef. Their stories then switch from "I'm going to try tow-in surfing" to something along the lines of "I went out to watch the pros do tow-in."