Movie Description:
Breaking the mold of traditional documentary filmmaking,Riding Giants uses its dynamic, cross-generational approach to profile the lives and timesof the intrepid surfers who over the decades have dedicated themselves to finding and successfully challenging thebiggestwaves on earth. We meet Greg Noll, the pioneer, whose relentless push into Hawaii`s big surf in the late 1950s earned him the nick- name "The Bull." There`s Jeff Clark,Northern California`s lone frontiersman,who, after discovering the massive wavesof Maverick`s near San Francisco, rode there alone for over a decade. Andfinally Hawaii`s Laird Hamilton, the prototypical "extreme" surfer, a rare breed of athlete/innovator considered asthe best big wave rider who ever waxed aboard.
