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Bethany Hamilton ([[
Alana's father puts a tourniquet on Bethany while Alana's brother calls 9-1-1. An ambulance meets them on the way to the hospital.
The family, however, bears no ill will towards Alana's family for taking her out to the place where she was attacked. After a recuperation period, Bethany gets back in the water and learns to surf with one arm, eventually re-entering competition. She tells her rival Malina not to take it easy on her, and rejects a five-minute head start offered by the judges. She doesn't perform well because she can't stay on the board long enough to go out and catch a competitive wave, and loses. Disheartened, she decides to give up competitive surfing.
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Subsequently, Bethany lets the reporters interview her. One asks her what she would do if given the chance to undo the loss of her arm. She says that she would still lose it because she can embrace more people now than she ever could with two arms.
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* [[Adaptational Angst Upgrade]]: The real Bethany Hamilton claims that she was much more cheerful in the hospital. She played pranks on the nurses and gave stuffed animals to a [[Littlest Cancer Patient|cancer patient]].
* [[Adaptational Attractiveness]]: Practically everyone, with the arguable exception of Alana.
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* [[Artificial Limb]]: Bethany gets offered one, but she soon turns it down.
* [[Barely-There Swimwear]]: The bikini that Alana buys.
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* [[Based on a True Story]]
* [[Christianity Is Catholic]]: Averted. Here Christianity is Evangelical.
* [[Daddy's Girl]]: Bethany
* [[Dueling Movies]]: First with ''[[127 Hours]]'' and then with ''[[Dolphin Tale]]''.
* [[Everything
* [[Everyone Loves Blondes]]: The movie encludes pretty much every woman with a speaking part (and maybe then some) except the native Hawaiian Malina Birch, Bethany's fierce rival.
* [[Fan Service]]: Bethany and Alana [[Walking Swimsuit Scene|spend most of the movie in bikinis]] ([[Justified Trope|It is Hawaii, after all]]). Most notably, Alana's photoshoot.
** In point of fact Bethany rather disliked the photoshoot, saying in her memoirs that it made Alana look more exhibitionistic then she really was.
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* [[Stunt Double]] / [[Talent Double]]: While an actor plays Bethany in the dialogue, Bethany ''was her own stunt double'' conveniently being perfectly qualified. In other words, when you see the surfing scenes you ''actually are watching Bethany Hamilton.'' And when you see it, it doesn't look like it should be called "surfing". It should be called [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|dancing on the water]].
* [[Training Montage]]
* [[True Companions]]:Several overlapping groups; the Hamiltons and Blanchards, Bethany and her Church Youth Group, Bethany and her surfing buddies too.
* [[Vomit Indiscretion Shot]]: Alana throws up on the beach after the shark attack.
* [[Walking Swimsuit Scene]]: Scenes where Bethany and Alana aren't wearing swimsuits of some kind can be counted on one hand.
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