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Waveriders won the 2008 Audience Choice Award from the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival, [5] the 2009 Irish Film and Television Awards inaugural George Morrison Feature Documentary Award [6] and the Best Documentary Award at the 2009 SURFER Poll & Video Awards.
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.
Sea creature spotted ‘surfing the waves’ in ‘special’ encounter off Iceland, photo shows. Brendan Rascius. April 26, 2024 at 5:05 PM.
Edge of the Earth is a 2022 HBO documentary television miniseries that follows four different extreme sports expeditions undertaken by elite athletes. Each episode follows a different group traveling to a remote area. The outdoor sports highlighted are snowboarding, kayaking, rock climbing, and surfing.
Pages in category "Documentary films about surfing" The following 39 pages are in this category, out of 39 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
An alternative type of surf movie is the "beach party film" or "surf-ploitation flick" by true surfers.These films had little to do with the authentic sport and culture of surfing, and instead represented movies that attempted to cash in on the growing popularity of surfing among youth in the early 1960s.
For the next 10 years, both brothers joined the competition circuit. For several years, his brother Liam was more well-known in the surfing community. Tow surfing caught on among the surfing community in the early 2000s, and McNamara was one of the first to join the movement. Boats and personal water craft enabled surfers to chase down and ...