You Should Have Been Here Yesterday combines hundreds of hours of lovingly restored 16mm footage with a salt-infused sou | dG1fQnlaRzlYbmhiVTg
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00:00When you jump into a wave, it's just quite extraordinary.
00:08As soon as you step in the ocean, everything's gone.
00:15We all surf for that reason.
00:19Surfing to us was experience in the heart of nature.
00:22It was a way of life.
00:27It was like it was our Bible.
00:30We were lords of the universe.
00:32Kissed by God.
00:42But if you go back to that time, surfers were extraterrestrials.
00:51It was a time in the world that was just going off.
00:54We were living on that really delicate edge of life and death.
00:59Surfers were all just mental.
01:01We were breaking away from established rules.
01:05I was just absorbed by the whole thing.
01:11Stepping into a world that was going to be mine scared me so much.
01:17It's just this thing, and it's got something to do with love, but I don't know why.
01:25It's a spiritual experience.
01:28Waves give to you unconditionally.
01:34The ocean remains a place of connectivity.
01:37It heals and teaches.
01:41The point of it was to share the passion.
01:46The passion is still out there.
01:52It's an inner journey.
01:54If you just paddle out, it's not that difficult.