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)](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/e6ba17bd1b89da8ff61b831a0af489b33f5a381b-1280x720.jpg?w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
North Shore (1987)
![Surf's Up (2007)](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/f13a2dae42251d7d47e5cd9edd5bf99caa94a256-1280x720.jpg?w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
Surf's Up (2007)
![Scene from In God's Hands, 1998)](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/3b5b4fa3ba14cf7bf19e74f9e34638202ab97458-900x506.jpg?w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
Scene from In God's Hands, 1998)
![Riding Giants filmmaker Stacy Peralta](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/8bbeb31b66b23ee1d1c2e8cfd89f226b7f99cd15-1280x720.jpg?w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
Riding Giants filmmaker Stacy Peralta
![Blue Crush (2002)](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/c3dcf84e4d9275de367f2d96386fd38c4cf411a6-1280x720.jpg?w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
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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