Humans are too slow swimming. The bow riding maneuver needs to be able to enter in the wave and also to move away fast when you want to stop the ride. The risk

Humans are too slow swimming. The bow riding maneuver needs to be able to enter in the wave and also to move away fast when you want to stop the ride. The risk to lose the wave and be killed by the propeller if you don't move away very fast is too high. Bow wave raiding is definitely possible for us. I had done it a lot of times.