What a fantastic story of how one man achieved his dream against all odds.
Excerpts from Article: Amidst the small beautiful city of Guarapari, Brazil, Derek Rabelo’s father prayed that his son would become a famous professional surfer. His father named his son after the legendary Pipeline surfer Derek Ho, the embodiment of his dream. Unfortunately on May 25th 1992, his prayer seemed unanswered when Derek was born blind.
Seventeen years later Derek decided that despite his blindness he still wanted to surf and that he wanted to surf Pipeline on the North Shore of Oahu. Through the encouragement of his parents, best friend, and surf coach, Derek embarked on a three-year journey of grueling mental, physical and spiritual training. Join Derek as he perseveres towards his goal of surfing Pipeline and along the way inspires the best surfers in the world including Kelly Slater, Gerry Lopez, Tom Curren, Damien Hobgood, Derek Ho, Laird Hamilton, Lakey Peterson, Coco Ho, and the entire surfing world. You will learn from Derek’s story that the best journeys in life are walked by faith, and not by sight.
Beyond Sight is an inspiring story of a young Brazilian surfer who has overcome being blind to surf regularly, and even surf at Pipeline (Hawaii), one of the world’s most dangerous and powerful waves. The movie has insights from numerous professional surfers, amazed by Derek’s achievements. The movie needs support via Kickstarter to finish production. You can learn more about that and the film below…
