9796 Pure Freude an Wasser you want to be a purist and say I m only going to make a wooden tire don t expect to go very far with it Ulti mately the big wave junkie is interested in pushing the limits of what is possible bigger better faster Foil boarding allows you the freedom and ability to use the wave s energy unlike anything that we ve ever been able to up to this point One aspect where he is resolutely on the side of nature however is looking after the ocean environmentally For example he is a part of the Project Zero movement which aims to bring together the disparate interests invested in maintaining the precious resource that our oceans repre sent A lot of the environmental stuff is pretty fractional ized and so to create a unity and an understanding of what is the priority is probably the more important thing he says It s part of what I can do the most effectively to get more people to not only appreciate and admire the ocean and what you can do in it but also to participate in activities in the ocean Because then we ll have a bigger voice and we ll have more impact And if there s one thing Laird Hamilton wants from the world it s bigger better and brighter variety of films both as himself such as in the giant wave surfing documentary Riding Giants and as a surfing double for Pierce Brosnan in Die Another Day Indeed there s something of the 007 agent about Hamil ton his fearlessness his capacious talents his calm in the face of literally insurmountable obstacles and yet his attitude to life is much more meditative than Ian Fleming s immortal character There are a lot of pieces to living a fulfilled happy life It s like the spokes of a tire you need all the spokes to be nice and firm so that the wheel rolls well Hamilton says Which brings him always back to the big blue I ve been fortunate to not let the influence of peer pressure stop me from pursuing the pure feeling of riding a wave and maxi mizing my relationship with the ocean And this is partly because he has chosen a more holistic approach to riding waves than competitive surfing tends to encourage Es chewing big prizes he s more interested in exploration and the deep connection of aquatic achievements My relationship with the ocean comes out of a more artistic and philosophical approach than what would be normal if you were trying to be a surfer This attitude was informed by his upbringing in Hawaii where he grew up with his mother and adoptive father also a surfer where traditional island attitudes to the ocean profoundly influenced him The Polynesian cul ture itself has influenced my life I think when you grow up on an island if you don t have a relationship with the ocean then you re probably in prison I feel close to the essence of it the exploration aspect of it and the relation ship with nature Despite his insistence on the natural aspects of zooming through the pipeline he has also spent much of his career innovating and finding new ways of using technology on the water In particular he co invented tow in surfing with two friends using inflatable boats to help them reach those waves which were simply too monstrous to get in side of with paddle power alone He has also been a big proponent of foilboarding where he uses hydrofoil tech nology to power the board and allowing the surfer to use the power of the swell to pull the board into the wave But is there a dissonance between these two approaches to the water the technological and the natural Hamilton thinks not All of these crafts are just ways to further your relationship with the ocean and be able to use it If There are a lot of pieces to living a fulfilled happy life GROHE Magazine The ocean is my home says Hamilton star of the critically acclaimed documentary Take Every Wave

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