{"id":19196,"date":"2025-12-03T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ripcurl.com.vn\/stories-from-the-eddie-the-ceremony\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T03:00:00","slug":"stories-from-the-eddie-the-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ripcurl.com.vn\/stories-from-the-eddie-the-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"\uc5d0\ub514\uc5d0\uc11c\uc758 \uc774\uc57c\uae30: '\uc758\uc2dd'"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Rqua0pTVmKs?si=BBbzBO-XNQZI1WS-\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h2>Eddie Would Go.<\/h2>\n<p>Three words that show us what courage looks like, what responsibility demands, and what it means to put others first.<\/p>\n<p>The waiting period for this year\u2019s Rip Curl Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational is just days away, with the official Opening Ceremony taking place at Waimea Bay on Friday December 5. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To honour the history and cultural significance of this event, we\u2019re re-launching our\u00a0<strong>\u2018Stories From The Eddie\u2019<\/strong> series, starting with <strong>\u2018The Ceremony\u2019.<\/strong> This first instalment focusses on what The Eddie means, before the crowds arrive, before the swell awakens.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0675\/6545\/3497\/files\/24_Eddie_Ceremony_BBN_00007-1300x730-aacf61b.jpg?v=1764719430\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>Waimea is where Eddie stood watch as one of the North Shore\u2019s first lifeguards, where he made hundreds of rescues, and surfed waves that inspired generations of big-wave surfers to come. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Eddie believed deeply in community and in the simple idea that there was always \u201cgood to be done.\u201d He lived with courage, commitment, perseverance, and aloha, values that continue to guide the event and its invitees today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Whether the Bay calls the day in 2025\/26 remains to be seen. But one thing is for certain: Eddie\u2019s legacy lives on. The lives he saved, the courage he showed, and the spirit he carried will be remembered. May this video and this year\u2019s Opening Ceremony serve as a reverent reminder of what this event is really all about.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><meta charset=\"utf-8\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0675\/6545\/3497\/files\/24_Eddie_Archives_Eddie_BBN_00017-1300x730-258e68f.jpg?v=1764714584\"><\/p>\n<p>The 2025\/26 Rip Curl Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational waiting period will run from <strong>December 7, 2025 \u2013 March 6, 2026<\/strong>. The event requires a gigantic swell producing consistent 40\u2019 faces in order to be given the green light and as a result has only run 11 times in its 41-year history. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about this iconic event <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"\/pages\/rip-curl-the-eddie-big-wave-invitational\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eddie Would Go. Three words that show us what courage looks like, what responsibility demands, and what it means to put others first. The waiting period for this year\u2019s Rip Curl Eddie Aikau Big Wave I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[592],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events-updates"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ripcurl.com.vn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ripcurl.com.vn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ripcurl.com.vn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ripcurl.com.vn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ripcurl.com.vn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ripcurl.com.vn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ripcurl.com.vn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ripcurl.com.vn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ripcurl.com.vn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}