All About Laird Hamilton

By Sophia Surk


Big Wave Surfing

There are several extreme sports, several sports that get your adrenaline pumping. Sport where you push yourself over the edge of what you think is protected. But a lot of times this edge is only in your head. Its the limit of your comfort zone, its the worry of what can occur, it's the uneasy feeling you get if you aren't in total control of the scenario. But for me the limit might be here for you it could be there. This is not the case with big wave surfing. You can find not quite a few sports where the danger is so obvious and present. Hell, you're riding the danger itself, you're in the direct contact with it. And if that is not enough - the danger is moving and it really is trying to catch you. It all looks kind of like extreme freeride snowboarding for the duration of an earthquake. Along with the man of big wave surfing, the big wave surfing man is "the man with no neck" Laird Hamilton. There's a nice clip of Laird Hamiltons surfing that follows but first some 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 most effective surfing teacher in the very best spot on Earth for surfing. No wonder Laird came out the way he did.

There are actually 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 (a minimum of he dusted it off)? Even mountainboarding? You name it!

But what seriously 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 possible 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. You could see some good photographs 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 Planet. The monster in Tahiti - 'Teahupoo', which in Tahitian implies, "End of the Road" and also the beast at his residence - in Maui, named "Peahi" or more recognized "Jaws". Enjoy.




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