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Riding Giants is a 2004 documentary film produced by Agi Orsi and directed and narrated by Stacy Peralta, a famous skater/surfer. The movie traces the origins of surfing and specifically focuses on the art of big wave riding. Some of the featured surfers are Greg Noll, Laird Hamilton, and Jeff Clark, and surfing pioneers such as Mickey Munoz.
Greg Noll (né Lawhead; February 11, 1937 – June 28, 2021) was an American pioneer of big wave surfing [1] and a prominent longboard shaper. [2] Nicknamed "Da Bull" by Phil Edwards in reference to his physique and way of charging down the face of a wave, [3] he was on the U.S. lifeguard team that introduced Malibu boards to Australia around the time of the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. [1]
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Crowder also garnered the A.C.E. Eddie for best edited documentary in 2004 for Riding Giants. Crowder co-directed and edited Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos , produced by Agi Orsi in 2006, and in 2007 co-directed and edited the Who documentary film , Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who , which was nominated ...
The Rev. Prentice D. Marsh began an oral quiz in spoken English and sign language on their Bible readings, teasing that he didn’t want to catch anyone sneaking answers on their cellphones.
Mickey Muñoz, aka Mickey Munoz, nicknamed "The Mongoose", [1] (born 1937) is an early surfing pioneer and surfboard shaper.. He was featured in the 2004 surfing documentary Riding Giants.
“At Elektra, they were sometimes like, ‘We would like to do things a little differently.’ And we were like, ‘Oh… interesting. I’ll stop talking now, and we’ll leave this meeting.’
Laird was born Laird John Zerfas in San Francisco on March 2, 1964, in an experimental salt-water sphere at UCSF Medical Center designed to ease the mother's labor. [3] His biological father, L. G. Zerfas, immigrated from Greece to California and left the family before his first birthday. [4]