Posted on 09/19/2013 1:10:52 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Sometimes the best projects start with a question.
This happened to local filmmaker and surfer Chris Thompson more than 10 years ago when a friend asked him if he had ever heard of the Santa Cruz Surfing Club.
“I hadn’t,” said Thompson, who was living on Cowell Street in Santa Cruz at the time, surfing the waves, something he had done since the 1980s after trading his skateboard for a surf board and moving from the East Coast.
After this admission, Thompson was introduced to a couple original surfing club members, who regaled him with stories of the “golden age” of surfing — way before Gidget and the Beach Boys popularized the activity, opening the doors to tourists and “wannabees” who flocked to California beaches, crowding the waves, leading to territorialism and clashes between locals and tourists.
I’d like to see this. Riding Giants just briefly touched on the background in California.
Having gone to SC beach for most of my adolescence and freezing my butt off, I say “COOL”....
I’m so stoked I’m gonna surf forever.
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