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Riding Giants (Special Edition)


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Riding Giants is more than another blissfulsurfing movie. It's an outstanding documentary about one era in American alternative lifestyles, when surfing was well-suited to a radical culture of social dropouts. Using an amazing array of amateur film clips, shot for the most part in Hawaii and California from the late 1950s and early '60s, director Stacy Peralta traces the rise of surfing's appeal to young men looking to test themselves in an unorthodox (and sexy) milieu--of "living life to the fullest," as former surfer-turned-screenwriter John Milius (Big Wednesday) puts it at one point. Lengthy chapters on the glories of Oahu's Makaha and the "superstition and dread" that accompanied the big-wave challenge of Waimea Bay are riveting and sometimes heroic, particularly told through the memories of surf legend Greg Noll. Great material, too, about the deadly wonders of surfing Mavericks, California, where the rocks will get one if the violent tides don't. --Tom Keogh




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(5 stars) - Super video!
My husband and I go to the North Shore of Oahu twice a year to watch the the adrenalin-charged maniacs ride monumental walls of water. In an effort to try to take photographs to capture these monsters to bring home to show friends and family, until we get a HD movie camera, we found something better--Riding Giants. This has to be the best big wave riding video ever made! If you want to really see what surfing is all about and hear the liquid thunder of these waves, then this video is a MUST! You will not be disappointed.



(5 stars) - Blown Away!
From our pioneer surfers till our industrial pioneers... AWESOME movie ! I was Blown away by this one



(5 stars) - Off-Shore
Larry H. has nothing else to do but surf. He can not make or fix anything useful. Typical.



(5 stars) - Great movie!
Excellent history of surfing both technically and as a function of the evolution of society. Great for all ages and types. On top of it all - great soundtrack!



(5 stars) - Giants Riding Giants
This is only one of three surf movies I actually paid to see in a theater before buying the DVD. I watch it at least twice a year. The "brief history of surfing" is absolutely hysterical. If you had to describe the surfing culture to someone who didn't surf, this is what you'd show them. Greg Noll makes the movie. His language and candor is a refreshing change from modern day professionals.



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