The Best Surfing I've Ever Seen: Rick Rifici

The Best Surfing I've Ever Seen: Rick Rifici

Side note: You can watch Taj’s Stab In The Dark here. “I was hanging out of the helicopter with a 16mm,” Rick Rifici said. “It was like something out of Apocalypse Now.” In 2004, Sam McIntosh worked with Taj Burrow to release the first issue of Stab Magazine. Their big cover shot concept? Something that had never been seen before: high-performance surfing from the “angle of god”. The idea was to take what Laird Hamilton had done at Jaws — hire a…