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Feature length surf film described as one of the slickest and most professional ever made featuring the worlds top surfers Mark Richards, Gerry Lopez, Simon Anderson plus Wayne Lynch and many more. The film featured a rocking soundtrack with music by The Doors, Australian Crawl, Split Enz, The Church, Sunnyboys and many more. Special features on this DVD include the cult short surf film KONG's ISLAND.
Red hot pumping sessions with Occy, Richie, Ronnie Burns, Munga, and the rest of the Billabong crew in exotic Indonesia, Africa, Hawaii, and Europe. This is flowing surfing, carving surfing, tubes, and huge curves and carves on great waves. Occy is the star.
The second BILLABONG CHALLENGE continued the pursuit of great surfing waves. Held in massive surf on the last day of the 10 day waiting period at one of the world's most perfect rights, Jeffrey's Bay South Africa. Top international surfers battled the rising swell for US $50,000:00; challenging each other, the awesome forces of the sea and their own personal stamina. Featuring the surfing of Kelly Slater, Mark Occhilupo, Warren Dean, Brenden Margieson, Johnny Boy Gomes and Shane Powell.
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From letting go of the two rope to rocketing into the channel in a gale of compressed air and spray, the apex of one man's life all came together in a mere ten seconds which shook the surfing world. In August of 2000, Hawaiian big wave waterman Laird Hamilton, one of the creators of tow surfing, was pulled into the largest wave of the day by jet ski in the sleepy town of Teahupo'o. Broadcast internationally by CNN, Reuters and AAP news feeds, Hamilton's feat including being sling shot over a thick ledge where the wave hit the reef and almost tripled in size, which would have ended in severe injury or death if not successfully executed. The entire story of this amazing trip to Tahiti is documented a film The Surfers Journal hails as "the greatest combination of soul surfing and cutting edge futuristic surfing like never before seen!"
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