Holy Surf! - Once Upon a Wave

Holy Surf! - Once Upon a Wave (2024)

June 5th, 20240h 0min

Documentary, TV Movie
65%

Overview

The history of surfing is like one long ride in which surfers relay the baton to each other across the years on a single, endless wave. In order to understand how this ancestral Polynesian tradition was able to span the globe and the eras until it became a competitive sport and eventually won a place at the Olympics, we’ll plunge into its history through the exceptional stories of those who allowed it to survive and be reinvented.


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