Thursday, May 28, 2009

Riding Giants..

    I just finished watching an excellent movie on the history of surfing called...you guessed it, Riding Giants. While there were many pioneers, the Muhammad Ali, Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan and Wayne Gretzky of the surfing world is a guy by the name of Laird Hamilton..


    ...who is married to volleyball player Gabrielle Reece..

   
     Who are these people BTW?... Anyway (spoiler alert) near the end of the movie they show Laird's masterpiece, surfing at Teahupo, Tahiti. I know everybody's inter-web attention span is about 30 seconds but try to stick with this till the 1:39 mark...incredible.. 



4 comments:

drollgirl said...

i loved this movie. you might also like the original dog town & z boys movie. well, the remake w/heath ledger is pretty great too!

Lianne said...

This is awesome. Pat is a surfer (Tofino and La Push -- home of Twighlight -- his two fav spots). Our all time favorite movie is Surfing for Life. The tag line is "Still Stoked and Surfind in their 70s, 80s and 90s". i know you're laughing, but just wait till you see these guys and gals. Truly inspiring.

Lianne said...

Oops -- totally spelled Twilight wrong. Too may Strongbow's with the visitors...sorrry.

Dan Johnson said...

I saw the one with Heath Ledger and loved it--the soundtrack was awesome. I've always meant to watch the original.

Surfing For Life, I'll check it out--MMM, Strongbow.

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