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Jan 18, 2023 · At the end of his film, Facing Monsters, slab hunter Kerby Brown suffers a hellacious head injury. We catch up with the hellman, two years after.
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- Growing Up by The Sea
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- The Love of Family
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The film follows Brown's life journey, which started with his childhood in the coastal township of Kalbarri, where he spent idyllic days on the sea. He and his brother Cortney quickly outgrew the normal surf breaks and began to set their sights on waves no other surfers would face. Using a jetski, they'd tow each other in to mighty waves that smash...
As Brown found himself confronted by hardships, he began seeking solace in ever more reckless ways. In the documentary, his partner Nicole Jardine reveals her fears that Brown was on a path to self-destruction. For Brown it was a combination of family love and the healing power of the ocean that helped him correct his course. The quest for bigger a...
Despite the dangers of his passion, Brown's family support his surfing. In the documentary they share their fears for his but also their admiration for his craft. "My partner Nicole has always been really supportive, even though it's really dangerous," Brown said. "She knows how much it means to me.
After a lifetime of surfing with surf cinematographer Rick Rifici, Brown's story came to the attention of documentary producers at Beyond West and, later, Veerhuis Pictures. As someone more content away from the spotlight, Brown thought hard about the decision to become involved. But having known Rifici for years, Brown felt reasonably comfortable ...
Apr 4, 2022 · Then there’s Glenn Brown—lifelong crayfisherman, surfer and musician turned father to two surfing studs. A reserved character he grimaces watching the pair surf deathly-looking reefs. “This is like asking me to go to his funeral,” says Glenn, as Kerby tows into another below sea level beast.
Jan 23, 2018 · Kerby Brown masters the chaos of Oz's heaviest slabs. The notoriously shallow, sharp, and mutant-like slabs of Western and Southern Austrailia are not for the faint of heart.
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Mar 16, 2022 · SURFER. Mar 16, 2022. Few people get as up-close-and-personal with death as do Western Australia's most brazen slab surfers. Kerby Brown–the subject of the new full-length doc "Facing Monsters"–regularly defies death at demented-looking bottomless slabs, and for some reason unbeknownst to regular people like myself, he enjoys doing so.
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Apr 12, 2022 · Years of drug and alcohol abuse could have derailed Kerby Brown’s surfing career but the lure of Australia’s biggest waves pulled him back from the brink.
