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Definitely go surfing, but forget the movie - read Barbarian Days by William Finnegan, it checks the boxes for surfing, journalism, and apartheid South Africa instead of the American reboot. Oh, it won a Pulitzer Prize too.

Point Break ? Might as well watch Hackers (1995) to learn about hacking the Gibson.

Tim Bonython is one of many with better surfing content: https://www.youtube.com/@SURFINGVISIONS/videos

Breath (2017) is arguably a better surf movie, as are others.

Nah brah, North Shore is the OG surf movie.