Surfing mountains the size of buildings with Pearl Jam screaming in your ears.
Winner of the 2005 Maui Film Festival's Best Short Film Documentary, this eye-popping video captures big-wave surfing at its most insane. Made by the folks who brought you Step in Liquid and Riding Giants, the film features tow-in trailblazers Laird Hamilton, Dave Kalama, Darrick Doerner and others taking on Peahi, Maui's enormous swells during the winters of '04 and '05. Fueling the action is a hot soundtrack courtesy of Pearl Jam, U2 and Beck.
Cinematography
Helicopter shots that'll give you vertigo from your couch.
Score
Pearl Jam and U2 soundtrack your existential crisis.
Director
Don King
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Don King nearly died filming at Peahi in 1995, giving him unique respect for the wave.
This short helped mainstream tow-in surfing just as purists were screaming it wasn't 'real' surfing.
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