Riding Giants

Love how dumb these guys are. Describing his depression when there are no waves to catch Laird Hamilton says, “imagine you’re a dragon slayer and there are no dragons.” Incredible. So pitted.

Shane McAvoy

7.9/8.0 out of 10 Cool documentary, although I don’t know a whole lot about surfing or any of the people in this, I learned a little that’s for sure. Definitely a must watch for your surfing connoisseurs. DVD $1 Thrift Find Wife’s Rating- 7.5 out of 10 Cheers Up Cinema

Frank Ferraro

Amazing surfer documentary about giants and their legends. Perfect before starting a 6 week surfing Roadtrip 🤙🏽

ClinTarantino

Community-Seereise RIDING GIANTS zeigt uns die Entwicklung der Surferkultur, von den historischen Anfängen des Wellenreitens hin zu den titelgebenden Big Wave Surfern. Auf der Reise von den sogenannten Mavericks (Location in Kalifornien) nach Hawaii an die North Shore…

MoeMents

Skateboarding legend Stacy Peralta directs another absolutely fascinating documentary, this time about big-wave riding. Through from its inception in the mid-fifties to its 21st century heyday, this features all the greats and some truly incredible footage of the forces of…

Andy Summers 🤠

Radical. Great doc on the evolution of big wave surfing with pivotal interviews and incredible footage. Surf's up! 8.2/10

JonnyAtlas

A decent documentary which covers the beatnik surfers of the late 1950s, how the film Gidget made this obscure pastime suddenly hugely popular (it basically sparked the early 1960s mainstream surf revolution in music and films), before feature's main subject: the rise of…

mokushima

thank you to my dad for purchasing this on prime video so i could happen upon it when browsing~ i remember seeing this at the laemmle monica when it first came out, and i watched this with my family on dvd like a billion times growing up but it had been a while so it was…

gogofugu

Much like Stacy Peralta's other directorial effort, Dogtown and Z-boys, Riding Giants can border on being a narcissistic film where a bunch of dudes just talk about how gnarly they are. But that's honestly part of what makes it so great. They all genuinely love surfing…

Andrew Moore