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'Birth of pro-surfing' revealed in Bustin' Down The Door
By
Charlotte O'Sullivan
4 Sep 2009
Actor Ed Norton has the most whiny voice on the planet, which makes him the perfect narrator for this half-gushy, half-revealing “birth of pro-surfing” documentary, starring the likes of Wayne “Rabbit” Bartholomew and Ian Cairns.
These sportsmen (mostly Aussies) have always seen themselves as pioneers and iconoclasts. They come across as a bunch of borderline racist loons.
They were bent on turning Hawaii’s dangerous North Shore into a scary father figure they could test themselves against and, of course, beat.
Despite the group’s many successes, self-pitying tears are rarely far from their eyes. It’s fascinating stuff and unfathomably bleak.
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