In Their Words–Laird Hamilton: Surfer Laird Hamilton has surfed the biggest of the big, he’s featured in Stacy Peralta’s hot new movie “Riding Giants,” and…he’s married to Gabrielle Reece. So as they say at E: “It’s good to be Laird.” Surfer magazine sat down with surfing’s Golden Boy for a two part interview. If you are a total surfhead, and want to read about board design, cavitation, and “foil surfing”, check out Part I (yawn..). But if you want to hear Laird talk about surfing egos, tow-in etiquette, and the money hunt, then Part 2 is for you. Here’s Hamilton on the search for the 100-foot wave:

“You know this whole 100-foot wave thing I have nothing to do with it. I am actively pursuing trying to find and ride the biggest waves in the world, period. And whatever those waves may be and how high and how wide and how thick and how shallow and how mean, the waves will determine. But this whole 100-foot thing is so ambiguous to me. I have a hard time knowing how big it is half the time we go out. We just go, “hey it’s big today” or “today it’s friendly” or “today it’s not friendly” or “it’s shallow here” or “this is a thick one” or you know so… And for me, I’m never going to pursue something that the end result is one climactic moment. That would be not only a waste of time but it would be sad to go, “OK my whole thing is to ride the 100-foot wave and then the 100-foot wave comes and you’re like OK and that’s it.” Then what? You’re done? You stop? That would be sad.”

Or you go looking for a 125-foot wave…



The Laird Of The Big Break: “Just another day at the office…Heh-heh.”

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