Riding Giants

[yoniluvrca]

I watched this great doco last night about the history of big (I mean GIANT) wave surfing. Great film if you like this sort of thing. There is some amazing footage of Hawaian & Cali surf spots.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0389326/

 

[frankcastle]

Yup I've seen it too the footage of the giant waves are fantastic. Never touched a surfboard in my life but I've always found it fascinating to watch.

Only problem was that I tought it was a porno about midgets and large people.

Laird Hamilton has a number of surf movies if you want to catch more waves.

 

[yoniluvrca]

Yup I've seen it too the footage of the giant waves are fantastic. Never touched a surfboard in my life but I've always found it fascinating to watch.

Only problem was that I tought it was a porno about midgets and large people.

Laird Hamilton has a number of surf movies if you want to catch more waves.

LOL-

I have seen a number of his films. Don't surf either but I have always kind of loved watching it. And I windsurfed in my youth. Surfing, esp. big wave surfing, is an amazing sport. It seems to have the ability of putting people squarely "in the moment". As one of the surfers in this film says (I paraphrase)-You have no time to think. If you are anywhere else but on the board you will die. That is also what windsurfing used to do for me,well, minus the actually dying part. Though I did end up in some pretty tight situations sometimes...

BTW-have you ever seen Laird Hamilton's wife? Gabrielle Reese.
She is a babe!

http://www.chrisis.org/chr_dishes/greese.html
http://www.sportznutz.com/columns/chesters_corner/images/reece_c.jpg
http://www.shanmonster.com/2005/gabrielle.jpg
http://www.margomargo.com/celebpix/Celeb40.gif

Pro vollyball player & modle

 

[frankcastle]

Sure isn't hard on the eyes is she? Funny how success and the attractiveness of your SO seem to be directly correlated. Guess I'm not doing that well. In fact I'm doing so badly I'm single.

But those waves that they tow themselves out to are amazing. The best docs to me are the ones that highlight how passionate people are about something others would never consider. For example going to the lengths that they do studying maps, weather reports and flying around the world to chase waves.