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All About Laird Hamilton

By Sophia Surk


Big Wave Surfing

There are many extreme sports, quite a few sports that get your adrenaline pumping. Sport where you push your self over the edge of what you consider is secure. But lots of instances this edge is only inside your head. Its the limit of your comfort zone, its the worry of what can occur, it is the uneasy feeling you get if you aren't in total control of the scenario. But for me the limit could be here for you it might be there. This is not the case with big wave surfing. There are not many sports where the danger is so obvious and present. Hell, you are riding the danger itself, you are in the direct contact with it. And if that's not sufficient - the danger is moving and it truly is attempting to catch you. It all looks kind of like extreme freeride snowboarding through an earthquake. As well as the man of big wave surfing, the big wave surfing man is "the man with no neck" Laird Hamilton. There is certainly a good clip of Laird Hamiltons surfing that follows but initially a number of word about him.

Laird Hamilton

Laird Hamilton was born in San Francisco in 1964. His name back then was really - Laird John Zerfas. When he was nonetheless a kid, his dad died and he moved to Hawaii together with his mother. This is where he met legendary surfer Bill Hamilton. Bill married Lairds mother and he became his surfing teacher. The best surfing teacher in the ideal location on Earth for surfing. No wonder Laird came out the way he did.

There are not a low of surfing connected things that Laird Hamilton didn't have his fingers mixed in. Strap-in surfing? Kite surfing? Aerials? Big wave surfing? Tow in surfing? Hydrofoil surfing? Stand up paddle surfing (at the very least he dusted it off)? Even mountainboarding? You name it!

But what genuinely kicked Laird Hamilton into the stardom was his "oh my god..." on the cover of Surfer magazine wave at the break Teahupoo (Tahiti). This wave redefined tow in surfing and redefined what is feasible on a wave. The lip on that wave is so thick it looks like half of the ocean stumbled over the coral reef on Tahiti. It is possible to see some great photos of that wave and that ride from Tim Mackenna - Teahupoo.

Laird Hamilton Surfing Teahupoo and Jaws

This clip shows Laird Hamilton surfing two largest or gnarliest waves in the World. The monster in Tahiti - 'Teahupoo', which in Tahitian implies, "End of the Road" and also the beast at his house - in Maui, named "Peahi" or more known "Jaws". Enjoy.




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