'This project is the hardest thing I have ever done,' Andy's younger brother Bruce said of the film. The recently dropped three-minute extended trailer for the documentary, featuring compelling insights from those closest to Andy, promises to shed light on one of the sport's darkest episodes.

In that time much about the circumstances surrounding Andy's tragic early passing has been written, presumed and whispered about. Irons died of a heart attack caused by drug overdose. WSL / Kirstin ScholtzĪndy: The Untold Story of Andy Irons, a new documentary from Teton Gravity Research, comes six years after the surfer's death in a Dallas hotel room. Two months before his passing, Irons made a triumphant return to the podium in Tahiti. From soaring highs to desperate lows, much that Andy achieved in life he did carrying the burden of a deeply troubled soul. But what not many outside his inner circle knew, be they staunch fans or harsh detractors, was that a comparable polarization of contrasting emotions played out in Andy's head. Andy was as polarizing as he was radical, viewed as either a breath of fresh air or a bridge too far. As the surf world charted his rise from radical upstart to main contender to dominant force, it did so largely in one of two camps.

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