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The Mark Divine Show

Laird Hamilton on being a surfing legend and innovator: Part One

The Mark Divine Show

Mark Divine

Self-improvement, Alternative Health, Education, Health & Fitness

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Laird Hamilton is well known in the surfing community and is the subject of the recent, award winning documentary "Take Every Wave." He was one of the inventors of Tow-in surfing, which allowed surfers to catch bigger waves than they could by paddling themselves. It has been one of the most significant advancements in surfing. In this two part interview, Mark talks to him about surfing and more. Hear how: Laird was bullied as a minority which he thought of as actually being an advanta...

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0:00.0

A perfect giant day is like a you know it's like a fine gem or something

0:18.3

and it moves all the pieces to come together and I think that's the

0:22.1

elusiveness makes it part of what keeps you

0:24.7

interested.

0:25.7

Hey folks welcome back this is Commander Mark Devine with the Unbeatable Mind podcast.

0:35.0

Super stoked you could join me today. This is going to be a lot of fun.

0:40.0

I can't tell you how stoked I am to have our guest today Mr Laird Hamilton surfing legend

0:46.4

If you haven't heard about him then you probably been living in a cave

0:50.6

But you'll soon find out what he's all about. But before we get started, a couple things. First, if you haven't heard me YAP about our Burpies for Vets Challenge. Let me tell you about a little bit more here

1:04.5

because I think you're going to want to help us out. So we've committed to do 22 million

1:11.2

burpees this year. 22 million burpees this year and as you might imagine I can't do them all alone

1:17.1

I'm gonna do a minimum a hundred thousand probably more like a hundred twenty thousand

1:22.3

chipping away three to 400 a day.

1:25.5

So far we've got several hundred people who have joined me either with a team or them, you know,

1:32.2

just solo and they've selected a number of burpees anywhere from, you know, five or ten thousand to up to others who have selected a hundred thousand like me.

1:41.0

And the idea is we're going to do these burpees,

1:43.5

get them in, come hell or high water,

1:45.3

and we're going to pledge a little amount ourselves

1:48.6

and then you can have others pledge for you.

1:51.1

So I'm pledge in 10 cents a burpee. Our goal is to raise $250,000

1:54.8

and to raise awareness for veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress because

2:00.2

22 a day get that 22 a day are committing suicide.

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