"Look at it, Johnny! Look at it! This is a once in a lifetime opportunity, man."

"Let me get one wave - one wave before you take me."

Big wave hunters will be frothing at the mouth – à la Patrick Swayze in 1991's Point Break – to catch a whopper on Victoria's west coast on Friday.

"Freak waves" of more than 10 metres are expected on the south-west coast as the world's best surfers take to Bells Beach for the Rip Curl Pro.