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 through a surfing lens—aging, terminal illness, and family turmoil, in that order, were well-served...
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 /
