Ep. 862: Big Wave Surfing Legend - Laird Hamilton
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Surfing: Laird Hamilton on Big Wave Mastery, Popularizing SUP, Inventing Hydrofoil and Tow-In Surfing – Living Without Compromise and Endless Innovation. Laird is famous for surfing the biggest waves in the world and is largely considered to be the influence behind a number of surfing innovations. From popularizing stand-up paddle boarding, inventing hydrofoil boarding, and tow-in surfing, Laird is easily a face on the Mount Rushmore of surfing. Surfer Magazine has labeled Laird as, “the sport’s most complete surfer, displaying almost unnerving expertise in a multitude of disciplines, and flat out surfing’s biggest, boldest, bravest, and the best big wave surfer in the world today, bar none.”
We sat down and chatted with Laird about what living Without Compromise means to him and how he maintains his innovation and zest for trying new things in the water.
Athletic Brewing has also partnered with Laird in creating Superfood Swell, a collaboration beer with Laird’s Superfood, a refreshing tropical IPA. Big waves of mango collide with swells of pineapple and hints of coconut water to deliver a taste-bending brew that transports you to Hawaii’s shores.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 0:22.2 | My name is Mason. |
| 0:23.4 | I host this show. |
| 0:25.2 | And today we're actually, funny enough, talking to Laird Hamilton, and this interview is from my other show called Without Compromise. |
| 0:34.0 | I host that show through my day job, athletic brewing. |
| 0:37.2 | You may have heard of it, non-alcoholic craft beer. |
| 0:39.9 | I talk about it quite a bit here. |
| 0:42.3 | But anyway, Laird is one of our athletes, but also someone we recently did a collaboration beer with. |
| 0:48.9 | And if you've ever heard the name Laird Hamilton, probably has to do with surfing. |
| 0:54.8 | He is the inventor of Big Wave Surfing, the inventor of the resurgence of paddleboarding, of foilboarding, all sorts of stuff. |
| 1:06.6 | Maybe it's called foiling. |
| 1:07.6 | I can't remember. |
| 1:08.3 | But anyway, Laird is, he's that guy in surfing. A legend, |
| 1:12.9 | the, you know, I don't know if it's the greatest surfer of all time, but really, really far up there. |
| 1:18.1 | One of the faces on the Mount Rushmore of surfing, absolutely. And it was a pleasure to talk to him. |
| 1:25.9 | It was really cool. We got to talk about his life, his career, some of the things that make him tick, some of his, gosh, some of the things that he thinks from a leadership point of view, some of his favorite stories. So I hope you enjoy this conversation. And if you're interested, you can check out some of the other interviews I've done over it without compromise. |
| 1:45.3 | It is slightly different than this show. |
| 1:47.0 | We don't just talk to adventure athletes. |
| 1:49.6 | We talk to all kinds of people from the athletic brewing community. |
| 1:53.3 | But feel free to check that out. |
| 1:55.1 | But yeah, it was really fun conversation. |
| 1:58.2 | And let's go ahead and jump in. |
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