By Max Klinger and Stevland Wilson

Friday, May 16, 2008

It could be argued that no one has changed the face of a sport more in the last twenty years than Laird Hamilton has for surfing. The man reinvented how surfers look at and access the ocean. For starters, he and some friends invented the tow-in, which in one winter seemingly doubled the number of waves that could be surfed in the world (it all cumulated in this "Oh, my God" wave in 2001 from the movie Riding Giants). He's also been instrumental in pushing stand-up paddling, foilboarding, wind ...

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