Laird Hamilton and Jimmy Buffett are two peas in a pod!
Much of our world exists in sharp discord. Non-aligning puzzle pieces jammed together. Awkward alliances. Forced marriages. And so it is the biggest breath of fresh air when two things just go together like… peanut butter and jelly.
May I present the new peanut butter and jelly.
Laird n Jimmy!
I read this story in the San Diego Tribune, between shark attack tales (more of those later), and felt my spirit soar. Let me anti-depress you too!
Now, if you’re a longtime surfer (as the 70-year-old Buffett is) who’s looking to try riding waves on a stand-up board (as Buffett was a decade ago), you might think about getting a board designed by the world-class waterman Laird Hamilton, who essentially launched the modern SUP phenomenon.
If you’re the actual Jimmy Buffett, you go ahead and buy the Laird board — and then have Hamilton himself teach you how to use it.
Surfing on an SUP can seem at times like some kind of political act — there still tends to be something between grudging acceptance and full-on friction between SUP’ers and original-recipe surfers, depending on where one paddles out.
But if you’re Buffett, you just go with the flow and enjoy the advantages that the universe, the elements and Laird Hamilton have blessed you with.
Buffett told the interviewer:
“I’ve probably been doing (SUP surfing) for 10 years, because it was the new new thing, and I surf mainly in the summer up in Montauk on the East Coast. There was like a Laird Hamilton 12-footer, so I bought one and I had no clue what to do with it.
You go out in the water and you watch the kids do it. And the first thing they told me was, get your balance on a lake and then go out. Long story short, I went out to a wedding in Malibu and ran into Laird, and so Laird actually taught me how to ride the board. And then I was hooked.”
He also said:
“Do we get more waves quicker? Well, that is true, so na na na na na na! (Laughs). But I’m gonna watch the local break and make sure I’m in the (right) pack.
The more territorial place out there is Old Man’s in San Onofre. It’s like being put in the corner in school. “Stay down there, you f—in’ stand-up people. Don’t ever come up here by us!”
And did you have any idea that Old Man’s was so… aggressive? Me neither! Read the rest of the story here and feel your insides smile!
Are you a parrothead? Have you ever eaten a Cheeseburger in Paradise? Will you burn the next SUP you see whilst humming Margaritaville?
Sounds like the movie star who came to Bali on holiday and asked to be taken to the best waves on the island. A mate organised boards for him,the entourage and headed off to 3′ Uluwatu after being assured said movie star was a regular surfer back home in California.
Dude was a total kook who couldn’t catch a wave, let alone make it to his feet. After an hour of floundering, my mate had to get him in over the reef with the tide receding. So dude didn’t catch any waves, got washed in and could only claim success in that he didn’t wiped on the reef due to fairly close assistance. Entourage regaled him with how good he did and then gave my mate a fair whack of coin to never mention his name in the story if he told it.
https://youtu.be/kwSYPZ159Vg
Cartman speaks only the truth!
Although Jimmy was great at Bluesfest.
Think he’s opening a Margaritaville at Byron.
buffet was cool before the money grubbing. a complete southern beach bum druggie in his youth. now hes sipping champagne in montuak with celebrities. taking notes from laird and slater
JB can do whatever the fuck he wants
according to a friend, spots like old man’s and first point malibu can host a lot of aggression towards anyone not espousing the true religion of neo-classical no-leash volan-glass beavertail pre-winter-of-1967 logging; in other words, the longboard equivalent of black wetsuits and white stickerless boards at certain shortboard spots in times past.
which i support! it’s impossible to have style on a SUP so they deserve all the grief they can get
He Needs to get Kanga to coach him!