When I was a teenager I used to surf all the time. Since then I've seen a lot of surfing footage on TV and the web, but nothing truly captured the feeling of being inside the wave as your board cuts through the water. Until now.

This slow-motion video, shot by a cameraman for the BBC, is awesome. It puts you at eye-level with a surfer as the wave closes in around him. If you've always wanted to surf, but never got the chance - this is what it's really like. Hang ten!