Those who have really thought about it know that Johnny Utah’s hero’s journey really begins long before the opening scenes of the movie, at the Rose Bowl. There, Utah, wearing the number 9 on the back of his Ohio State jersey, “nukes” his knee while leading his team to victory over the University of Southern California.

Here’s how Utah describes how that injury led him on a path away from what we can assume was certain stardom in the National Football League: “I got my knee pulled back about 90 degrees the wrong way…two years of surgery, missed my window, went to law school instead.” The rest, as they say, is cinematic history.

Johnny Utah’s first destination upon arriving in Los Angeles is to report for duty at FBI Headquarters. There we learn that Los Angeles is the “bank robbery capital of the world,” and Utah’s commanding officer says that in the last year (the film was release in 1991), there were “1,322 [bank robberies] in L.A. County, up 26 percent from the year before” (a description that might not have exactly nailed the numbers, but is a pretty accurate description of the popularity of the crime at the time).

Here’s what else we learn about life inside FBI headquarters from Point Break: At first it seems like Johnny Utah will fit right in because he “takes the skin off chicken,” and a healthy regimen is encouraged among the workforce at FBI Headquarters. But then the discussion takes a surprising turn and there is some discussion about whether there is an asshole shortage in the FBI.

After Lori Petty’s character fished Keanu Reeves out of the Pacific Ocean following his initial misguided attempt to learn to surf all on his own, he tracks her down at her place of employment. There, Utah orders a fish sandwich “to go,” but not before he gives his pitch that she should be the one to teach him to surf. She does. He totally learns how to surf.

While Pappas is running to save Utah while he’s fighting with Kiedis and his spicy friends, we see a sign that says Latigo State Beach. The location is particularly critical for the movie because it’s the point break that inspires the line (“nice point break”), delivered by Utah, which inspires the name of the movie.

At one point in the movie, Bodhi picks up Utah to bring him on a dawn patrol at “Zeros.” Spoiler alert: Zeros is also the beach where Utah realizes that Bodhi and his friends—the very first group of surfers he met while undercover—are actually the Ex-Presidents! Imagine the luck! Zeros is also known by its more official title of Nicholas Canyon State Beach.

This is a minor moment in the movie, but Bodhi and one of the Ex-Presidents, trailed by Utah, have lunch here while casing banks for potential robbery. There has been some chatter online about Point Break inventing the name Patrick’s Roadhouse in homage to Road House, another of Swayze’s most popular movies. But Patrick’s Roadhouse is not made up. It’s real.

The Santa Monica Airport plays an important role in the climactic scenes of the movie, as Utah and Pappas have a shootout with the Ex-Presidents as the latter attempt to escape to Mexico. A gunfight would probably seem tame compared to some of the community meetings that have gone over the past couple of years about what to do with the Santa Monica Airport.

There used to be a Point Break live stage show at the Dragonfly on Santa Monica Boulevard. It claimed to be the longest running show in LA. In this version of Point Break, Johnny Utah was played by a member of the audience. Also, the audience was invited to wear rain ponchos. The show was awesome.