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Professional big wave surfer Garrett McNamara begins "tow surfing," using jet skis to be able to get on taller and taller waves. After McNamara is filmed riding the barrel of a 20-foot wave at Hawaii's famous Jaws surf site, the video gets shared around the world and a resident of Nazaré Portugal reaches out to Garrett to try to get him interested in the mammoth waves that crash onto Nazaré ...
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.
Thicker Than Water is a 2000 documentary surf film directed by singer/songwriter Jack Johnson and his film school friend Chris Malloy. It shows surfing footage from different locations like Australia, Indonesia, Hawaii, India, and Ireland in combination with a wide range of styles of guitar music. Surfers in the film include Kelly Slater and ...
ESAT was established on April 24, 2010 by a group of leading exiled journalists, most of whom were jailed, tortured or forced into exile, to provide accurate, objective and balanced news, analysis and information, perspective as well as entertainment, talk shows, documentaries, sports and cultural programming pertaining to Ethiopia and the rest of the world.
RÚV is the main television channel of RÚV, the Icelandic public broadcaster, launched in 1966.The free-to-air channel broadcasts primarily news, sports, entertainment, cultural programs, children's material, original Icelandic programming as well as American, British and Nordic content.
In 1959, Dick Metz's [9] meeting [10] with John Whitmore, on a Cape Town beach, and introduction to Cape St. Francis, during his family-liquor-license-sale-to-Disneyland-funded [11] three-year global surf trip (1958—1961) [12] led to his inspiring [13] Bruce Brown to film there, [14] [15] By 1962, he had spent five years making one surf film ...
Highwater is a 2008 documentary film centered on surfing's Triple Crown competitions, the professional surfing tour's final three competitions held each year on the North Shore of Oahu. The film is directed by Dana Brown , son of famed surfer and filmmaker Bruce Brown .
In 2022, Wong began wearing a helmet while surfing the Banzai Pipeline. [8] Jones Wong competed in the 2014 Surf n Sea Pipeline Women's Pro, [9] and in 2015 came fourth in the event's final. [10] [11] She also competed in the 32-mile Molokai 2 Oahu paddle race with her father, Dawson Jones. [4] In late 2021, Jones Wong won the HIC Pipe Pro. [2 ...