A pleasingly loose interview with Size King Laird Hamilton.
Yesterday at four am, sometime BeachGrit reporter Anthony Pancia was awoken by a phone call from the wife of Laird Hamilton, the model and volleyballer Gabby Reece. The reporter had been chasing an interview with Laird and had taken to sleeping with his portable telephone under his pillow in case of an unlikely callback.
But miracles do happen, and it is the season for the miraculous afterall.
And with Laird stuck in a car for an hour, and in a very good humour, the pair talked Christmas gifts (“This year I got some stitches!”), hip replacements (“Too many lifetimes in one!”) and the history of foil-boarding (“The only way to ride the biggest waves on the world will be on hydro-foils.”)
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to me that foil looks like way more trouble than its worth, and hella awkward.
that’s hanalei bay, right?
Foils could really cut down on the surf population. Literally. Can you imagine one on a crowded Day at Snapper or Rincon?
It does look pretty good for some of the fat point breaks in my neck of the woods. I’m all for it. I’m 6’7″, so being another 2’/3′ taller on a wave will allow me to be even more superior. And the threat of decapitation is captivating.
6’7″?!? Jesus Kareem go shoot some hoops!
White men can’t jump.
I guess just being handed everything will have to do, no coincidence golfballs are white,put them on a pedestal project them forward!
I see Eddie vedder has the monopoly on stoke killing music.
i just recently overheard the remak ” i heard kelly slater surfs with eddie vedder. eddie must rip!” please end it now!!!
True but the SUP craze kept many local surf shops and shapers in business during the recession. Most of that equipment is seldom if ever used. I think the foilboard craze will be similar.