Bombora – The Story of Australian Surfing is the definitive TV history of surfing – produced and directed by the team behind Long Way to the Top.
It tells the stories of the pioneers like Duke Kahanamoku and Isobel Letham, the first Aussie surfing icons like Midget Farrelly and Bob Pike, the bad boys like Nat Young and Michael Petersen. It looks at the exploits of innovators like Wayne Lynch and Bob McTavish, and the new breed of Australian surfers riding forty-foot monster waves off the West Australian coast. It's a story of people living wild lives, craving freedom.
From bodysurfing in the 1890s to today's billion-dollar surfwear industry, this two-part series looks at how Australia's love affair with the sea lies at the heart of our national culture.
Alongside rock and roll, surfing has emerged as the most important sub-culture of the past century. Surfing has the same teenage rebelliousness; the same lure of freedom and escape from the norm of everyday life. Like musicians, surfers have often been fringe dwellers, and regarded as a dangerous minority, even a threat to normal society. And within the surfing community, tensions have always existed between those pressing for change, and those content to maintain the status quo.
In these early years of the twenty-first century the surf boom has now spread to all corners of the globe. The world is now buying the surfing dream. What was once seen as a passing teen fad like the hula hoop now crosses all generations and is measured in billions of dollars annually. But few of the millions of surfers who ride waves, and the millions more who want to and are attracted to it, know the true story of surfing.
Bombora features incredible archive footage of surfing in Australia, a brilliant rock and roll soundtrack, and interviews with ten former Australian World Champions.
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