Epic thrills and spills from the surf world will fill Anita's Theatre in Thirroul on Friday night with a group of legends of the sea taking to the stage.
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Filmmaker Jack McCoy will be "sharing the stoke" from his 45-year career along with tales from renowned Coal Coast photographer Ray Collins, '90s powerhouse Mick Lowe and pro surfer Dion Agius in a "Surf Talk and Jam".
McCoy, 73, was responsible for bringing dozens of exotic locations to those who dreamed with films like Storm Riders (1982), Bunyip Dreaming (1990), Blue Horizon (2004) and A Deeper Shade of Blue (2011). A debilitating lung condition forced him to put the camera down in recent years.
Now he uses Surf Jams to continue breathing his passion for waves with people everywhere.
"When I saw my first surf movie ... back in the day, the guy who made the movie showed the movie, usually at a local high school," McCoy told the Mercury.
"The experience stuck in my mind of this guy who was doing something really cool who was bringing to the surf tribe things we had only seen in magazines - this was before the internet or anything like that. When a guy brought a surf movie around it was a big deal."
The filmmaker will relive the greatest wave he ever documented through his words and on the big screen, a monster ridden by Laird Hamilton in 2000 - the "earth-shattering millennium wave". It was considered the third most famous in history, McCoy said.
"We were in Tahiti and he ran a wave which was considered unsurfable," he said. "He had to be towed into it because ... paddling you couldn't match your speed to paddle into a wave like that, it's like trying to catch a freight train on a bicycle."
Another memorable moment he'll share is when he got slammed head-first onto a Tahitian reef, his helmet literally saving his life despite a messed up face afterwards.
The Jam has already been to Newcastle and Dee Why with more South Coast dates to follow, although Thirroul's leg will be without the added live music component.
The show will also feature GLOBE's new film Dark Shallow starring Dion Agius, Craig Anderson and Chippa Wilson.
McCoy will also be auctioning some of his personal collection of memorabilia to raise money for charity, the Surfrider Foundation.
For more details and tickets, visit: www.anitastheatrethirroul.com