Point break

Big-wave surfing means huge prize money and crazy risks as riders go in search of the 100-foot wave. Simon Lewis reports from California.

A GLITTERING awards ceremony in front of 1500 people packed inside a California theatre usually means only one thing Hollywood.

Stretch limos, red carpet interviews and standing ovations, the awards season is as glamorous as it gets. But anyone turning up at the Grove Theatre in Anaheim last Sunday night expecting that this particular awards night would be a somewhat similar would have fallen off their Jimmy Choo stilettos in shock.