Tow-in surfing is a surfing technique which uses artificial assistance to allow the surfer to catch faster-moving waves than was traditionally possible...
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Buzzy Kerbox (section Tow-in surfing)
co-developing tow-in surfing with Laird Hamilton, Dave Kalama, and a handful of other surfers in the mid-1990s. Kerbox was born in 1956 in Indianapolis...
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Big wave surfing is a discipline within surfing in which experienced surfers paddle into, or are towed into, waves which are at least 20 feet (6.2 m)...
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Laird Hamilton (category Tow-in surfers)
born March 2, 1964) is an American big-wave surfer, co-inventor of tow-in surfing, and an occasional fashion and action-sports model and actor. He is...
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Teahupoʻo (category Tow-in surfing)
Billabong Pro Teahupoo surf competition (part of the World Championship Tour (WCT) surfing circuit) and the 2024 Olympic surfing competition. Teahupoʻo...
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Surfing is a surface water sport in which an individual, a surfer (or two in tandem surfing), uses a board to ride on the forward section, or face, of...
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Cortes Bank (category Tow-in surfing)
also creates a renowned big-wave surfing spot recognized as capable of producing some of the tallest surfable waves in the world. Historically, the Cortes...
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Peahi, Hawaii (redirect from Jaws (surfing))
surfers such as Laird Hamilton and Dave Kalama using the tow-in surfing method of big wave surf riding they co-invented (with Darrick Doerner and Buzzy...
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Doerner is a big wave pioneer in the sport of tow-in surfing, in which personal water craft are used to tow surfers into large surf. Also known by the nickname...
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Martin Potter (surfer) (category World Surf League surfers)
He began surfing off the beaches of his hometown Durban at age 10. By the age of 15, he was surfing 20+ foot waves at the Banzai Pipeline surf break on...
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Dave Kalama (category Tow-in surfers)
and 1 daughter live in Kula, Maui. Kalama is credited with the co-development of the big wave surfing technique of tow-in surfing, along with Laird Hamilton...
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The Endless Summer (category Surfing in New Zealand)
Revisited, later directing Step into Liquid, in 2003, documenting tow-in surfing. Bruce Brown started surfing in the early 1950s. He took still photographs...
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Surf culture includes the people, language, fashion, and lifestyle surrounding the sport of surfing. The history of surfing began with the ancient Polynesians...
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Justine Dupont (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
female big wave surfer in the world since 2019. Her performance in tow-in surfing allows her to rival with the best male surfers in the discipline. Stand...
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the early pioneers of the bodyboarding sport, a pioneer of big-wave tow-in surfing and also a champion bodysurfer. Having ridden bodyboards since the inception...
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Garrett McNamara (category Tow-in surfers)
his brother Liam was more well-known in the surfing community. Tow surfing caught on among the surfing community in the early 2000s, and McNamara was one...
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Eddie Aikau (category Missing person cases in Hawaii)
and became famous for surfing the big Hawaiian surf, winning several awards including the 1977 Duke Kahanamoku Invitational Surfing Championship. The Eddie...
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The Endless Summer II (category Australian surfing films)
of the surfing scene since the first film, which presented only classic longboard surfing. O'Connell rides a shortboard, which was developed in the time...
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Praia do Norte (Nazaré) (category Surfing locations in Portugal)
Beach’) is a beach located in Nazaré, portuguese Oeste region, which due to its giant white breaking waves is famed for its surfing conditions. Nazaré's waves...
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Giants, a 2004 documentary of the history of modern big wave surfing and tow-in surfing. Following that, Peralta wrote the screenplay for the dramatic...
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Nazaré, Portugal (category Big wave surfing)
Brazilian professional surfer Márcio Freire died whilst practicing tow-in surfing. Nazaré is twinned with: Badajoz, Spain (since 1987) Nogent-sur-Marne...
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Pete Cabrinha (category Tow-in surfers)
Buzzy Kerbox started to experiment in big surf on the North Shore of Maui and invented a spin off called tow-surfing. They called themselves the "Strapped...
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Kiteboarding (redirect from Kite surfing)
His Bering Strait Kite-Surfing Adventure". Forbes. Retrieved 28 March 2017. Detroit Free Press, 12 January 2014, KITE-SURFING TEAM CROSSES ATLANTIC, by...
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been surfed at an estimated height of 15 m (50 ft). Big wave surfing Tow-in surfing Surfing in the United Kingdom Surfing in Scotland Tourism in the Republic...
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Mathieu Schiller (category Sport deaths in France)
Schiller pioneered the practice of tow-in surfing with jet skis. On 19 September 2011 at approximately noon Schiller was surfing along with over a dozen other...
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Waimea Bay (category Surfing locations in Hawaii)
has clear and calm water. The surf break at Waimea Bay was significant in the development of big wave surfing. Larger surf at the bay went unridden for...
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She also includes the sport of tow-in surfing using examples of surfers like Laird Hamilton who get their surfboards towed by boats to high speeds so that...
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wave rider and tow-in surfing inventor. Damian Hardman (1966– ) (Aus) 1987 and 1991 World Champion Rhonda Harper (USA) Surfer and surf coach, founder...
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Wakesurfing (redirect from Wake surfing)
by use of a tow rope, the wakesurfers will drop the rope, and ride the steep face below the wave's peak in a fashion reminiscent of surfing. Wakesurfers...
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Nelscott Reef (category Tow-in surfing)
only place on the Oregon Coast with the right conditions for big wave surfing. It is named for the former community of Nelscott, which is now a part...
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