Riding Giants (2004)

A well-known skater and surfer named Stacy Peralta directed and narrated the 2004 documentary film Riding Giants, which was made by Agi Orsi. The film explores the history of surfing and focuses particularly on the skill of riding enormous waves. Greg Noll, Laird Hamilton, Jeff Clark, and surfing pioneers like Mickey Munoz are a few of the featured surfers.

Stacy Peralta returned with yet another spectacular documentary on the history of big-wave surfing three years after Dogtown and Z-Boys. Although there is enough of thrilling tube and wipeout footage to demonstrate the fascination with the lure of riding such enormous waves, you may learn more information than you need, beginning with the sport's Hawaiian roots and going through the decades. Peralta takes viewers as close to them as most of them will ever get without combining them into one.

A brief historical history of surfing's development in Hawaii is followed by a focus on the perilous allure of big-wave surfing, which involves riding waves up to 70 feet (21 meters) high. The film traces the development of surfing at Hawaii's Waimea Bay in the 1950s, the advent of lighter surfboards, and the advent of tow-in surfing to enable "riding giants." The following three surfers are highlighted as being a part of this multi-generational evolution: In the 1950s and 1960s, Greg Noll rode brave large waves; Jeff Clark discovered Mavericks in Northern California and surfed there by himself for many years; and Laird Hamilton, a modern surfer who popularizes tow-in riding.