Riding Giants

[David]

Stacy Peralta's "Riding Giants" (2004) is the most purely enjoyable nonfiction film I've seen in well over five years. It's also one of the most astonishing films of modern times, filled with the "passion for filmmaking" which Truffaut so keenly sought. I highly recommend the film to you NetFlixers or renters.


Jaws (Peahi) on Maui's North Shore




Another shot of Jaws




The hydraulically fiendish Teahupoo (pronounced "CHOH-poo") in Tahiti, considered impossible to surf until Laird Hamilton surfed it in 2000 (that's Laird in the photo)--this beast has a 15-foot-thick lip that would pulverize a human body if he fell




Teahupoo swelling up in a 180-degree arc




Maverick off Northern California--many a pro surfer has died in these waters