“I don't use sunscreen, never have used sunscreen. It stops my ability to absorb the sun.”
The well-proportioned surf star Laird Hamilton, a man who has been a study in good health and beauty for sixty years and who regularly features on “world’s sexiest” lists, has come out and said what a surprising number of high-profile surfers believe, that sunscreen ain’t so great.
Our hero lives in Malibu in summer, Maui in winter, and therefore consumes much sun.
Has it killed him?
On the contrary,
“If there’s no sun, there’s no life. I solar gaze, I’m into solar gazing. I go early in the morning, when I can, and watch the sun. It affects my whole system. I don’t use sunscreen, never have used sunscreen. I’m not a big fan of sunscreen because it’s stopping my ability to absorb the sun,” says Laird.
He describes the effects of sun exposure as being very similar to reading BeachGrit, ie, anti-depressive.
“You just know how it affects you. If it’s raining for three weeks, I can tell you, like when I go get in a blue sky with the sun, I’m like, oh yeah, it’s like I bathe in it. The sun’s the king.”
If you don’t believe him, Laird suggests a simple experiment.
“Take a plant in the garden and spray it with sunscreen for a month and then see what happens. The thing dies,” he says. “If you think you’re not as connected to the sun as the plant is are you’re crazy. I mean we have all these diseases that you get when you’re not in the sun, besides depression. We have actual sicknesses that are from not enough sunlight. We’re all connected to the sun and we all should have a relationship.”
If you don’t wanna take it from Laird Hamilton, you just peel open a history book, he says.
“You know, they say that we’re the first culture in history that doesn’t worship the sun. We fear it. We hide. We put on sunscreen.”
I lean towards Laird on this topic, as I do on most, and prefer a little zinc on the beak and the décolletage while wearing scoop necks but rarely touch the white compounds that get smeared on backs, faces and limbs.
So far so good.
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Laird will, at some point, learn that life is full of irony when you’re stupid.
How?
I was anti-block until my first ever 5hr session at a point break in my early 20’s. Burnt to a crisp. Never again.
Love me some Headhunter or Vertra on my face to prevent that from ever happening again. Also, my pops just had to cut out a 4” diameter hole around his noggin to ensure they got all the melanoma from the 1” melanoma tumour that came out of nowhere.
It’s possible that most sunblocks are carcinogenic, but just wash it off after you’re out of the sun for the day.
Well this explains a lot.
Spoken like a guy who’s been in the sun too long
I wonder what would happen if Laird sprayed plant fertilizer all over his body? Would he die?
I’m guessing yes!
But not if he ate the fertiliser ……for a month .
We need Laird to step up and participate in this experiment!
This fool should take up smoking …. to exercise his diaphragm
I like Laird a lot more for what he does than for what he says – the man is a complete moron.
HOLY FAK.
DA POWA OF DA HOLOGRAMZ!!!
Too white!
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electrolytes…
Oh wow, another retarded pro surfer
Did Laird suckle on the power balance endorsement teat?
Indeed he did along with Rasta and many other gullible fools…
https://beachgrit.com/2016/08/enjoy-surf-rage-with-laird-hamilton/
I don’t use sunscreen either. It stops my ability to grow malignant melanomas.
What the fuuuuuuck ?
Lard’s vege based coffee creamer biz is dropping, and now he’s missing the chance to get into the vege based suncream biz ?
What about salad cream ?
Or whipped cream in a can ?
Shaving cream ?
F.T.L cream products available soon
My mom used to use baby oil as a youngster. Now the dermatologist has a special knife ready for her every time she visits.
Maybe that is why my really young, hot Dermo hasn’t cut me during my annual visits. I never used baby oil for tanning…maybe for other acts, but not tanning.
Ivory soap don’t cut it got to use a serious degreaser to remove that from the sin skin..
“Yeah, that one is basal cell carcinoma. Trim it back. But leave the planter’s warts…”
In real time I did have one removed (2 cms) and paid $200 cash. Doc replied: “Come back in a month and bring more cash…I’m going to dig out another 22 cms.”
Self-treated with Aldara, genital wart removal product that is only available by prescription. Very expensive. So bought online and was shipped via Greece in cotton swap paper container. It worked on the BCC on my arm. Thank jeebus I don’t have genital warts ’cause it didn’t work on the planter’s.
FTL = Fruit ‘o The Loom? I don’t wear any undies and neither does she…
Laird thinks he’s a plant
I think that I’m a mammal
We both could be wrong
You guys can be anything you want to be!
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So, something that relies on photosynthesis to survive dies when you spray suncreen on it? You don’t say…
Good point
A victim of the Hawaiian public school system.
“I don’t use sunscreen, never have used sunscreen. It stops my ability to absorb the sun.”
This reminds me of the Justin Bieber quote: “You don’t need to go to church to be a Christian. If you go to Taco Bell, that doesn’t make you a taco.”
If you’re born in a stable it doesn’t make you a horse!
Hung like a taco!
Hung like an Italian pole vaulter!
That guys gonna be tearing up the olympic village when its over.
could make you a ding dong ?
Uh let’s do another experiment Laird. Plants breathe CO2 right? Put on a scuba tank and fill it with CO2 and breathe it for a hour.
This guys thick as a fucking brick.
it’s like people wearing those stupid masks 8 hrs a day.
Only 8??
So true. I’ve heard him talk. Sounds like a rugby league player. Hits to the head sorta thing goin on there.
Can you add some plant fertilizer to the mix? Laird never digested the below saying:
“Better to Remain Silent and Be Thought a Fool than to Speak and Remove All Doubt”
Apparently Laird doesn’t have friends and or family that have died from melanoma, as I do. All of that unfiltered sunlight seems to have caused him brain damage.
Sorry to hear OT. But seriously, my biopsies always come back positively maybe. Have shyed away from going to the dermo for a thousand pirhanna cuts as my father did. He died of a heart attack and the next day got a call from somebody looking to donate his 78 y/o organs. So pisssed was I that I told them he died of melo…that ended dat convo!