''The Endless Summer II'' is a 1994 film directed by Bruce Brown and is a sequel to his 1966 film ''

The Endless Summer ''The Endless Summer'' is a 1966 American surf documentary film directed, produced, edited and narrated by Bruce Brown. The film follows surfers Mike Hynson and Robert August on a surfing trip around the world. Despite the balmy mediterran ...

''. In ''The Endless Summer II'', surfers Pat O'Connell and

Robert "Wingnut" Weaver Robert "Wingnut" Weaver (born 1965) is an American surfer. He has appeared in several of Bruce Brown's surf films, starring in three of them alongside Pat O'Connell. In 1991, Weaver graduated from University of California, Santa Cruz with a degr ...

retrace the steps of

Mike Hynson This is a list of people associated with surfing or surf culture. A *Reno Abellira (1950– ) (Haw) Smirnoff World Pro/Am winner in 1974 *Megan Abubo (1978– ) (Haw) *Eddie Aikau (1946–1978) (Haw) Award-winning surfer and lifeguard *Lisa ...

and

Robert August Robert August (born 1945) is an American surfer and surfboard shaper. Raised in Seal Beach, California, he attended Huntington Beach High School where he was ASB President his senior year. He is most famous as one of the subjects of Bruce Brown ...

. It shows the growth and evolution of the surfing scene since the first film, which presented only classic longboard surfing. O'Connell rides a

shortboard A surfboard is a narrow plank used in surfing. Surfboards are relatively light, but are strong enough to support an individual standing on them while riding an ocean wave. They were invented in ancient Hawaii, where they were known as ''papa he' ...

, which was developed in the time between the two movies, and there are scenes of

windsurfing Windsurfing is a wind propelled water sport that is a combination of sailing and surfing. It is also referred to as "sailboarding" and "boardsailing", and emerged in the late 1960s from the aerospace and surf culture of California. Windsurfing g ...

and

bodyboarding Bodyboarding is a water sport in which the surfer rides a bodyboard on the crest, face, and curl of a wave which is carrying the surfer towards the shore. Bodyboarding is also referred to as ''Boogieboarding'' due to the invention of the "Boogie ...

. The film illustrates how far surfing had spread, with footage of surf sessions in

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, Costa Rica, Australia,

Bali Bali () is a province of Indonesia and the westernmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands. East of Java and west of Lombok, the province includes the island of Bali and a few smaller neighbouring islands, notably Nusa Penida, Nusa Lembongan, and Nu ...

Java Java (; id, Jawa, ; jv, ꦗꦮ; su, ) is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and the Java Sea to the north. With a population of 151.6 million people, Java is the world's mo ...

, and even

Alaska Alaska ( ; russian: Аляска, Alyaska; ale, Alax̂sxax̂; ; ems, Alas'kaaq; Yup'ik: ''Alaskaq''; tli, Anáaski) is a state located in the Western United States on the northwest extremity of North America. A semi-exclave of the U.S ...

. It also has a brief cameo appearance by morey surfer Felipe Zylbersztajn, Steve Irwin, and Mary, a crocodile from Irwin's Australia Zoo. In 2003,

Dana Brown Dana Brown is the name of: *Dana Brown (baseball) (born 1967), baseball executive *Dana Brown (filmmaker), (born 1959), American filmmaker and surfer *Dana Rosemary Scallon (born Rosemary Brown, born 1951), Irish singer ("Dana"), turned politician ...

, Bruce's son, made what is seen as the "third movie", '' Step into Liquid''. It follows the evolution of surfing over the last 10–15 years from shortboarding to

tow-in surfing Tow-in surfing is a surfing technique which uses artificial assistance to allow the surfer to catch faster moving waves than was traditionally possible when paddling by hand. Tow-in surfing was invented by surfers who wanted to catch big waves ...

Year-end lists

* 8th – David Stupich, ''

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References

External links

Bruce Brown Films
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