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Way to ski on waves. >> wave skiing is the brain child of professional athlete chuck patterson. it's definitely an extreme sport. john berman got the details in this "world news" conversation. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: chuck patterson, thank you so much for joining us. where are you talking to us from? it looks like a surf shop somewhere. >> i'm talking from my office in dana point, california. >> reporter: i know you like to ski on snow in mountains but a video that's been passed around the internet quite a bit that

Has you skiing not on mountains at all, but on waves. >> yes. it's kind of a combination with toe surfing and big waves and snow skiing and it's something that we've been kind of working on for quite some time. and a couple of skiers last year took it to a new level. and i kind of took it from there. >> reporter: how does it work? walk us through it. >> basically, it takes a couple of things. the skis we have are custom made. we put ski bindings on there. and then we also use ski boots. you need kind of the real stiffness of boots and the bindings to be able to torque these turns, you know, a ...