Riding Giants
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... fostering a new crew
of big-wave talents:

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Pat Curren, Peter Cole, Ricky Grigg,
Fred Van Dyke, Jose Angel...

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... Kealoha Kaio and Greg Noll,
whose big-wave obsession...

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... and even bigger-wave personality,
would forever link him...

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... with Waimea Bay.
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Waimea was my gal, man.
She was like...

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I mean, I surfed
with this beautiful woman...

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...who allowed me
to get away with shit...

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...as long as I didn't act
too outrageously towards her.

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There was times...
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...where the surf would get perfect...
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...and you'd go out
and catch a wave:

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You just make this thing
and just have your adrenaline...

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...dripping out of your ears.
Paddle back out, do it again.

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You get too cocky,
you get your ass slapped a bit...

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...she'd let you know it.
But for the most part...

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...there was just this full-on love affair
that took place for 25 years.

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Nicknamed "The Bull"
for his charging style...

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... and clothing himself in a pair
of loud jailhouse-striped trunks...

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... Noll emerged as surfing's
first big-wave celebrity.

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He looked like a big-wave rider
with that big, thick neck...

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...and he had the black-and-white
striped trunks, which was genius.


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