Chapter: 8
The Ride of Your Life
- Is Surfing Hip?
- Lisa Andersen Surfs Better Than You
- Killer Cute
- Kelly Slater is Just Warming Up
- Rebel for Hire
- I Believe I Can Fly
- A Monster in Half Moon Bay
- Mark Foo's Last Ride
- Open Throttle
- Laird Means Lord
- Tahitian Scream
- A Webcam for Every Wave
- Last Call for Print Media
- Taylor Steele Likes it Rough
- Searching for the Perfect Phrase
- Hollywood Tries Again
- Thirty is the New Twenty
- Andy Irons' Poetic Fury
- The Beast and Beyond
- A Dance with the Past
- Foam is Dead, Long Live Foam
- Nature Gets a Makeover
- Surf in a Box
- The End of History
Hollywood Tries Again
North Shore (1987)
Surf's Up (2007)
Scene from In God's Hands, 1998)
Riding Giants filmmaker Stacy Peralta
Blue Crush (2002)
Surf's Up was an indicator of surfing's new position at the frictionless middle of American culture. Characters in the movie are mouthy and a bit scatological, but never subversive or threatening. As presented, surfing is cool. It's also settled, conventional, and family-friendly.
Surfing in pop culture, as depicted in TV shows and movie theaters, expanded and mellowed during the 1990s and 2000s, and the previous era’s over-the-top icons—stoner Jeff Spicoli and madman Colonel Kilgore—began to morph into surprisingly real people. This was literally true for a string of top-notch surfing documentaries. Apparently, just about any topic imaginable can be filtered effectively th...
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