In the winter of 1975, South African & Australian upstarts Shaun Tomson, Rabbit Bartholomew & Mark Richards went to Hawaii with little else than their surfboards & their love of surfing. With their incredible skills & raw ambition, they not only set a new standard for wave riding, but also succeeded in transforming surfing from a casual pastime into a viable profession. Published to coincide with a documentary feature film narrated by Academy Award nominee Edward Norton, ” Bustin` Down the Door” tells the incredible story of these free ride pioneers. With essays by the surfing legends themselves, along with previously unpublished photographs by award-winning photographers such as Dan Merkel, ” Bustin` Down the Door” re-creates the genesis of modern surfing from the perspective of the visionaries who turned their unlikely dreams into reality & revolutionized the sport of surfing.