:39:02
... more performance-oriented
North Shore breaks:
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The Bonzai Pipeline,
led by surfers like Gerry Lopez...
:39:08
... and at Sunset Beach...
:39:10
... by surfers like Jeff Hackman
and Barry Kanaiaupuni.
:39:15
All this changed in the mid-'80s...
:39:17
... first with the emergence
of Ken Bradshaw...
:39:20
... and then Mark Foo.
:39:21
Two professional big-wave riders...
:39:23
... determined to reintroduce
personality and showmanship...
:39:26
... to the challenge
of riding giant Waimea.
:39:29
Then came The Eddie...
:39:31
... Quiksilver's big-wave
riding contest at Waimea Bay...
:39:34
... held in memory of the late,
great big-wave rider Eddie Aikau.
:39:39
Together, Ken Bradshaw,
Mark Foo and The Eddie...
:39:43
... wrenched the surfing world's
attention back to Waimea Bay...
:39:47
... then still considered the
Mount Everest of big-wave surfing.
:40:04
Mavericks wasn't supposed to exist,
it wasn't supposed to be there.
:40:15
It was a mystery that it was just
suddenly found in this area...
:40:18
...that's 20-something miles
away from San Francisco.
:40:27
In Half Moon Bay, who's formerly
famous for its annual pumpkin festival.
:40:32
It's as if they discovered
Mount Everest behind Mount Whitney.
:40:44
Teenage surfer Jeff Clark grew up...
:40:46
... along Half Moon Bay's
secluded coast...
:40:48
... riding homemade boards in the
region's powerful, rugged waves...
:40:52
... where he carved out
a frontier existence...
:40:54
... far removed
from surfing's mainstream.
:40:58
I was a freshman in high school.