Laird Hamilton conquered Tahiti Teahupo'o the morning of August 17, 2000, captured when his death-defying drop in the great wave of world attention. This cemented her reputation as the greatest big wave surfer of all time. A mop-Teahupo'o in a particularly dangerous reef break in shallow water south-east of Tahiti, means almost certain death.
His journey is by surfers worldwide simply as "The Wave", and a shot of him on the tree on the cover of SurferMagazine, provided by the caption: "Oh my God ...". After that even Hamilton admitted that he had pushed the "max, max, max, max". This is his humility that he burst into tears after driving.
If this is the greatest big wave surfer of all time?
One could argue that nobody has changed the face of a sport more in the last twenty years that Laird Hamilton has for surfing. He is a step backwards to the time when surfers prided themselveswith all-Waterman. He is also known as the guiding genius of crossover board sports. He is truly amazing in the water. E 'was instrumental in the press are paddling up, foilboarding, windsurfing, kitesurfing and long distance tub, as well as surfing, and he and some friends invented the tow-in, which in winter doubles apparently the number of waves could be sailed around the world.
Laird has been a great ambassador for his sport, spreading his love and respect forNavigating around the world.
A surfer in history:
Laird was the second born in San Francisco in March 1964. He moved with his mother in Hawaii when he was a child, even as a child and an unquenchable thirst for adrenaline - footage of him was jumping off a cliff sixty feet deep water at just 7 years running.
As a young boy, Laird met legendary surfer Bill Hamilton 1960 on Pupukea beach of the North Shore of Oahu, Hamilton and led to his mother.Bill Hamilton went on to marry Joan Laird and adoptive father. There is a better father, mentor and coach a guy like Laird could he? and finally, to grow into one of the largest surf location in the world - the north shore of Oahu.
At the age of 20 years, Hamilton had already become an accomplished surfer and could easily pursue a career in surfing's World Championship Tour, however, surfing and competitive races not challenged, and he was quoted as saying,"Contests are less of a big wave, like your ideas. Surfing is to work on your body. This is art. I would take if I hire someone other than the audience determine my fate. How does a court musician His what? how many people love his music? "
Hamilton started in late 1992 with some of his comrades, as Darrick Doerner and Buzzy Kerbox with boats to tow one another into waves too big to catch under paddle power were alone. L 'to use technology that would change later, jet-ski, was a revolutionary innovation. Tow-in surfing, as soon as it was known that childbirth and the possibilities of big wave surfing led to a whole new level, even if they have met with mixed reactions from the surfing community, some of them considered that cheating and polluting. Hamilton explained that tow-in surfing was the only way for the monstrous size of waves like those that can see a Peah (Jaws) off Maui and startthe coast of Tahiti.
In 1999 Hamilton sailed his windsurfer between the Hawaiian islands of Oahu and Kauai, about fifty miles away, in less than six hours. He later sailed his windsurfer back.
E 'was also credited with the invention of foilboard. This is an innovative surfboard foilboard hydrofoil technology allowing a higher degree of accuracy and effectiveness of aerial techniques included in the water.
Recently, he has the general publicPractitioners and supporters of the stand-up paddle surfing, an ancient Hawaiian technique that requires an enormous longboard and a long-handled shovel, and a lot of skill, strength and flexibility. Some "purist" surfers have blasted him for it, but Hamilton has called for a return to an old traditional Hawaiian way of surfing.
However, it was his loss of Teahupo'o, considered the most dangerous wave ever ridden, the scale of his career and was to be hisLife.
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It has often been able to navigate huge as 'big wave' because of its exceptional physical condition and gain stature have been accredited. A 6'3 "(1.90 m) and 220 lbs (102kg) he is able to tackle the larger waves, which many smaller surfers could not physically handle.
Hamilton surfing is now generally considered "best of the best" of big wave surfing regularly swells of 35 feet (11 m) high, and considered movingat speeds over 30 miles (48 km) an hour and ride the waves with other successful up to 70 feet (21 m) high, up to 50 mph (80 kph).
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