I've tried kayak surfing a couple of times in little dinky surf off the coast of Maine. But never tried real surfing and I'm too old now to learn it now. It does look fun-- and difficult. My kids took a lesson from a local surfer dude while we were in Hawaii. They had fun and even managed to stand a couple of times, but found it hard to do! It was a rather stormy day and the waves were a little big for beginners.

Endless summer is a fun movie, even if one isn't a surfer. The search for the perfect wave: they found it somewhere off of South Africa, IIRC.