Carissa Moore and Gabriel Medina leave Australia with a huge lead and there are new names in the Top Five as competitors set their sights on Surf Ranch.
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A documentary on the Hawaiian art of “surfboarding” released by Castle Films in 1960
After a long, pressure-filled three days Johanne Defay and Filipe Toledo have won the Jeep Surf Ranch Pro presented by Adobe. Part marathon, part sprint, both surfers have felt the sting of finishing runner-up in the past at this event, but when it counted most they rose to the occasion, dug deep and found a way to take their respective performances to the next level.
Far from the hotels, mai tai bars and tourists at Waikiki in Honolulu, Greg Noll sat on his surfboard beyond the frothy waves and considered his fate.
“They were horrible, absolutely horrible,” he later said of the mountains of water that rose menacing in the darkened sky, whipped up by a legendary storm in 1969. “The whole situation gave me a sick feeling.”
He could die, he reasoned. Or he could spend the rest of his life regretting the missed opportunity … More