When his friend Billy Calloway got a road bike, he got one too, and the pair would set off across the George Washington Bridge and up to Bear Mountain, utterly clueless, a single water bottle between them, Dave dressed in surfer shorts and wrestling shoes.
But it is impossible to imagine its wacky inventor, Kary Mullis, who accepted the Nobel prize dressed in a surfer's drysuit, flourishing in the stuffy constraints of Roche's Basle headquarters.
In the film, he plays a megalomaniac pseudo-Southern Californian surfer dressed in garish yellow with a sun-bleached mop, whose eternal quest for the perfect wave off the shores of the calm Mediterranean borders on the ridiculous.
They had a ready ear in council member and fellow surfer Jim Vreeland.
Soon the two fall in thrall to an older surfer, Sando, who calls the boys to ever-riskier battles with water.
He said the recent rescue of a surfer off Salcombe in strong winds and a heavy swell, showed how much was expected from the volunteer crews.
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The surfer, standing in the tube, or just in front of the break, slides down the wave like a skier, while the wave, and the buoyancy of the surfboard, bear him upwards and forwards.
The indefatigable Werner Herzog has made a brilliant documentary about an American saint and fool Timothy Treadwell, a failed actor and California surfer who fell in love with the grizzly bears in Alaska and who spent a dozen summers with the bears, usually alone and always unarmed.
The attack came one day after a surfer was seriously injured in a shark attack north of Sydney.
No matter how good, how experienced, how graceful they were on the wave, every surfer ended their ride in precisely the same way: By falling.
On 4 January, another surfer survived a shark attack in the city of Gosford, north of Sydney.
In much the same way that a surfer rides a wave, the bubble of space containing the ship and its passengers would be pushed at velocities not limited to the speed of light toward a destination.
Today, the camera shoots full video in cinema quality HD, allowing anyone from professional surfer Kelly Slater to amatuer snowboarders to capture their adventures.
Tallman followed up with another recently to Kalama Kamp surfing camp in Turks and Caicos, led by famed big-wave surfer Dave Kalama.
Asking a U.S. company to filter access to a site based on a Web surfer's nationality is "very naive, " Yang said in the interview.
In Venice, Abbot Kinney is spilling over with new bars, cafes, pop-up shops and surfer-set retailers.
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"Prince Philip said 'You have obviously surfed in the ocean' and I told him I had surfed all my life and used to be a professional surfer, " he said.
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Glen Morgan, who rents out a couple of homes he owns in the Outer Banks in North Carolina, changed the name of the first house from Flip Flops to Surfdancer because he is a surfer but noticed the number of rentals dropped sharply because past renters didn't recognize the new name.
At a foot wide and 35 to 40 inches long, this "sidewalk surfer" is technically a longboard a skateboard variation that's more akin to a surfboard in look and ride.
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