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Lickle in the surf, fashioned his swimsuit into a cloth tourniquet, and applied it to Lickle to save his life. Hamilton then piloted the watercraft back to a landing, where Lickle was immediately taken to a hospital for treatment. Brett recalled that day for Chris Dixon that Brett towed Laird into a wave that was in his opinion "better than 10 stories tall" and the biggest wave ever ridden. That means over 100 feet tall. It was not photographed and therefore not officially recognized by the XXL judges.
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Laird said: “That was all about faith. Believing I could. That wave in
Teahupo’o was a wave we didn’t know existed. We hadn’t seen waves like that. In my world, when I was a kid, I went to every surf movie, I knew all of the best surfers in the world, I was in the middle of all it… but a wave like
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in 1995 after a television interview by Reece, who was hosting the show 'The
Extremists'. People magazine named him one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World the following year, and he pushed for and took from his future wife the correspondent position for the syndicated cable series 'The
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Southern California to be hit with a swell of extreme size—triple over head (and larger) waves could be found from San Diego to Los Angeles, including Laird's home break at Malibu. Late in the day, on a stand-up paddle board, Hamilton dropped into one of the largest waves of the day and
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technique that requires a longboard and a long-handled paddle, as well as considerable skill, strength and agility. Purist surfers have blasted him for this, but
Hamilton calls it a return to the traditional Hawaiian way of surfing, as practiced by King
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credit card television commercials; an early 2000s commercial in the series "Hi, you probably wouldn't recognize my name . . . " and more recently in the
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Pacific Island of
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signature artistic flair, Hamilton continued deeply carving water, emerging back over the wave's shoulder. A still photograph of him riding the wave made the cover of
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the random luck of the waves in organized championship surfing events. Bill Hamilton regarded surfing more as a
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that did not exist, and the ability to ride that wave in any form didn’t exist either."
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Liferider: Heart, Body, Soul, and Life Beyond the Ocean
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1985:Susan Casey (September 14, 2010).
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2058:"Laird Hamilton Interview"
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1891:"Point Break (2015)"
1371:Surfing A-Z web site
1303:People. 22 May 2000.
909:What Doesn't Kill Us
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1962:. Chronicle Books.
1544:"The book of Laird"
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