100 Foot Wave returns to HBO Max for its second season with some new hardware to show off, having won a 2022 Emmy for Outstanding Cinematography in the Nonfiction Program category and received a ...
Opening Shot: In footage from 2004, Garrett McNamara, then 37, emerges from the turbulence of a big wave, bleeding profusely from his brow. “I should probably stitch it. So I can surf.” The Gist: It’s ...
After watching an episode of 100 Foot Wave, the HBO series featuring big wave surfer Garrett McNamara, you'll likely be left with goosebumps—it's anxiety-inducing to watch humans tumble down monstrous ...
Cinematographer and surfer Mike Prickett developed techniques and camera systems for photographing these unrepeatable moments — and even had his story featured in one episode of the Emmy-nominated ...
The first season of 100 Foot Wave, which debuted on HBO in 2021, set up a hard act to follow. Those six episodes covered almost a decade of the evolution of big-wave surfing, specifically around the ...
In his 50s, surfer extraordinaire Garrett McNamara decided he would chase the mythic 100-foot wave with the aid of a technique called “tow surfing” (which utilizes jet skis to change extremely large ...
One of the best sports documentaries in recent years was HBO’s 2018 documentary Momentum Generation, which followed a group of top American surfers through the 1990s and early 2000s and won the 2019 ...
The docuseries will continue to follow Garrett and Nicole McNamara and introduce a new wave of surfers. By Lesley Goldberg Television Editor, West Coast HBO is going to paddle out again. The premium ...
HBO’s 100 Foot Wave, which premiered earlier this month, follows a group of big wave riders as they travel the globe hunting for the planet's biggest swells The docuseries is about "so much more" than ...
And finally today, many surfers dream of that perfect wave, the one where everything lines up just right - from the water and wind conditions to maybe even getting that perfect barrel. Big wave ...
THIS is the moment a Brit claims to have ridden the biggest wave ever surfed in history. Daredevil Tom Butler took on a huge swell at The Nazaré in Portugal – estimated to be more than 100ft tall. A ...