Laird Hamilton: Pain Is My Cousin
The Ready State Podcast
Kelly Starrett & Juliet Starrett
4.9 • 623 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2018
⏱️ 69 minutes
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You may know Laird Hamilton as a big wave surfer, innovator, actor, and writer. What you might not know, is that Laird suffered and surfed through extreme chronic pain from a hip injury (and various other injuries). Laird has an interesting perspective on pain and helps us understand how his philosophy on life, nutrition, and fitness all play into health and recovery. Laird joined us via Skype from his home.
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| 1:34.5 | This episode, we have been able to stop it this episode we have the incredible incomparable Laird Hamilton if you have been living under a rock and maybe I've never heard of surfing or big wave surfing |
| 1:39.3 | maybe you don't know who Laird Hamilton is or Gabrielle Reese but But Laird is an incredible innovator surfer. |
| 1:45.2 | If you've ever heard of stand-up paddling, big wave towing, foiling. |
| 1:48.2 | This guy has been on the cutting edge of human performances as it relates to being a |
| 1:52.8 | waterman for a long, long time. |
| 1:54.7 | If you ever watched North Shore, you know who we're talking about. |
| 1:58.3 | And last year, a documentary about his life, Take Every |
| 2:01.6 | Wave, which was directed by Rory Kennedy, came out. And as an addition to this podcast, |
| 2:07.6 | I highly recommend you have a look at that. Now, Laird and Laird's life are worthy of conversation |
| 2:14.7 | on podcasts for a lot of reasons. But actually, we're going to have a conversation with Laird for a different reason |
| 2:19.7 | and that he suffered debilitating and chronic hip pain |
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