The film follows the pro-surfer, who, at a time when she seemed invincible, became the victim of an attack from a stranger outside her home, that left her emotionally and physically injured.
Some, like Kenny Mostern, 35, a self-described "left-wing political consultant," are former "couch-surfers" who spent months at a time sleeping on friends' couches.
Born of desperation and ingenuity, advergames, as they are called by marketers, are emerging at a time when Web surfers largely ignore more conventional forms of advertising.
Before Surfline, dedicated surfers would hang out on the beach for weeks at a time, dropping everything, including work and relationships, when the surf came up.
Like most young, devoted surfers, Mr. George would head to Baja California for weeks at a time in the hopes of having just one perfect day of surf.
At a time when there were perhaps only a few hundred surfers in California and Hawaii and no magazines or films about the sport, Hoffman helped "pave the way" for the surfing boom that followed, said Steve Pezman, publisher of The Surfer's Journal.
Internet upstarts sorely need this currency to get noticed at a time when new sites are fighting a fierce battle for the attention of Web surfers.
Although popular with surfers at certain times of the day, it is still one of the largest and most isolated beaches on the Gower – so generous that at low tide you can stroll across to the neighbouring bay without leaving the powdery soft shoreline.
Eugene Alper, who heads the Surfrider Foundation's Long Island chapter, said his group humored the state by participating in negotiations but that forcing surfers out of the water at a certain time was unacceptable.
