
Keep It A Secret | Discovering Ireland's Waves
Clip: Season 6 Episode 1 | 56sVideo has Closed Captions
Surfing pioneer Kevin Naughton recounts the first time he discovered Ireland's waves.
Surfing pioneer Kevin Naughton recounts the first time he discovered waves off the coast of Ireland during a family vacation. The Southern California surfer, who has traveled around the world in search of surf, shares his stories of the beginnings for the sport in the country and the people that has made it the best kept secret.
Funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional funding provided by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Wyncote Foundation.

Keep It A Secret | Discovering Ireland's Waves
Clip: Season 6 Episode 1 | 56sVideo has Closed Captions
Surfing pioneer Kevin Naughton recounts the first time he discovered waves off the coast of Ireland during a family vacation. The Southern California surfer, who has traveled around the world in search of surf, shares his stories of the beginnings for the sport in the country and the people that has made it the best kept secret.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipAnd as we're driving through this little town called Bundoran, I looked out the window and I just saw this perfect A frame, eight-foot peak breaking.
I was gasping.
This can't be real.
It's an illusion.
I scream at my parents, "Stop the car!"
And of course they say, "Shut up.
We'll get you an ice cream in the next town."
"No, no, I wanna see the wave."
But they kept driving.
But it always stuck in me, that image of that wave.
And I thought, "Man, there's waves here.
That's a real wave."
And of course I'm not a sinner out.
The water was empty.
Nobody was surfing around there back then, as far as I knew.
The waves there were as good as waves that I surfed in California.
But there were no crowds.
I mean nobody, not even other surfers.
I thought this must be like stepping back, not to the '50s, but to the '40s in California, before surfing was really even recognized, before anything.
And that's how I felt when I stepped into Ireland.
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