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  1. “Back. Yeah, nice work, Tim. You're the man. Yeah, he subjected yourself to another test. I did. I think I'll need a long nap this afternoon. Yes. I'm making shirts pretty soon. XPT. I survived.”

    2015-07-15 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #89: Laird Hamilton, The King of Big Wave Surfing (Plus: Gabrielle Reece and Brian MacKenzie) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “We just redid the site on Galport.com. is our company that we started that's just exploding right now the golf boards are taking over the golf courses like stand up Taken over the ocean, but Laird stand up and then do we still have. Joint stuff”

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  3. “Amazing getting coffee. I just let him go. Larry for about three years. I didn't even say it. I didn't even tell him. Why would I tell him? Why would I ruin his pop his bubble? No, and then, but you can see some of the other stuff like...”

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  4. “Then I That that's really about what it's about, right? It's having fun and that spirit of that child Is what will lead you to be an old man? Child. You'll be older, young, but you'll be young.”

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  5. “Because we're talking about emotional things, but his is physical, hers is emotional, compassion, and then just drink more liquids, hydration. More water Air”

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  6. “That I think compassion is exercise compassion every day. If you could actually go out and just exercise some form of compassion, no matter what it be, I think that's some powerful stuff. I think it would be a different world if people win and were compassionate. I have to remind myself, and that's an ask, but that's also a do for me. I'm asking myself to do it. And again, I use that as what's good for the goose is good for the gander, which is ask of what you want of yourself. And then I think it's probably what, you know, it's like, I like stand up. I like foiling. I like this. You know, I like the breathing. Other people will like it too, you know. So mine's, I think I'm going with the compassion. It seems like going first is a good. Small step”

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  7. “Well, that's not unfair. They went first. They did steal some good material. They kicked the breath. And I think part of, I think, of course, the breath is, you know, that's our food. That's what we get when we don't eat. And that's the breath of life. And going first and cherishing the temple, I mean, and I think what Gabby said about going first leads to what I think too. And I think, and again, quoting my lady's favorite book, Natural Born Heroes, but the compassion.”

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  8. “And the breath and the spirit are as one. Because when the baby slapped on the button, the first breath is when consciousness. My mom said that exact same thing.”

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  9. “It's a mechanical meditation. It's not a swami kind of ethereal thing where they're like trying to grab something in space. This is mathematical”

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  10. “Who are only focusing between 8 and 12 inches Solar gazing, that'll be, you could That would really help your vision. We can, yeah, that's you know what you're talking about meditation whim you know you do that program because his whole thing is about meditation”

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  11. “Anxiety and also too. And we're not looking around. Well, we're not looking around. So we're in this position and then we have an instinctual thing to know what's going on around us and we don't while we're doing it. And that just grinds on ourselves.”

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  12. “Or it'll make her. It's like sometimes your kids see you train like we train. They might be like, maybe I don't want to train. Maybe I don't want to climb trees Mom's crazy. Brian, who speaking of crazy people? Speaking of crazy people.”

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  13. “It's an unmotivated when you're long, it's very unique to find a complete loner that's has full maximum motivation really we are communal we are communal but that's why we're subjected to all of this peer pressure too we're subjected to social pressure of hey now you're 30 you're overhill what are you going to do now So, you know what I mean? But that social stuff that we implement, the reverse is that is, hey, we're all together and you're 60, you're 70, I'm 50, he's 30, we're all going, let's go.”

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  14. “That yeah, well, and also too, it also confirms what you're, it's like a reminder. Know because again, it's like Gabby said with the stand-up paddlers, at the end, when you go through what you went through today, and I see your face and I know what it did to you, and I know later you'll be like sitting somewhere and you'll want to go to sleep. I'll be like, hey, just give me the call. Like, call me because I want, because it's confirmation That you're not alone. Because when you're alone in something, a lonely place is an unmotivated place.”

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  15. “That's the norm, and then you don't, and then that becomes a driving force. And then it's easier. And it's never an option. You never make it. It's like Gabby says, you know, it's not like you don't choose whether you want to brush your teeth or not. You don't go, oh, I'm not going to brush my teeth this week. You know, I don't need to do that. It's just something you can do. Well, exactly. But no, but yeah.”

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  16. “So that's one like Dawn has a unique thing about that, that he can implement like he wants to eat whatever he wants. And he loves to eat like, you know, cakes and pies and ice cream and like he'll just devour that stuff. But he at the same time, he wants to be, he wants to be, he doesn't, he's not going to be fat. He doesn't want any fat on his body. And so for him, he's earning it. In this particular case, he's earning it, right? And also, too, he always says it takes the piss and vinegar out of you. You know what I mean? Like he knows how it affects his mood and how it makes him feel. And so once you subject yourself to it for long enough and you're consistent enough, you know, you start to get addicted to that. You're like, food tastes great, my sleeping's great, my sex is unbelievable. I'm just, you know, it's like all this stuff where he just, and then you don't want to lose that. And then you use that.”

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  17. “with a physical manifestation. And so Dawn was never accepting it as being, you know, he, you know, the guy that he always gives you stuff like the guy that held the Olympic record for lifting was 52 or 54 before steroids and blah, blah, blah and all this stuff. You know, when you see that. But what's great about somebody like Don, who's my guy that I look to is that just there it is. You don't have to imagine what it looks like. There it is. It's alive. It's well. I mean, I put Dawn on a bicycle and I can take. pretty much almost anybody on a bicycle unless you're like a professional bicycle list and he will hammer you you will be hammered and you will be asking me how old is the guy up in the front with the gray hair like 82”

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  18. “Can you explain while men 8 you know 80 days is 80 days of snowboarding last year I just went helly snowboarding with him like a month ago or two months ago in Alaska just you know I mean heli boarding is a rigorous activity a week straight you know 15 16 runs a day you know third fourth day you're you're wobbly not a word out of the out of the gunslinger and you know he just is like you know but when you meet him you know you you His hunger for information, his youthful enthusiasm, you know, it's like, I think that is such a key element when you look at any of these guys, you see an enthusiasm in him. And I think that's what happens to a lot of athletes. I think they just lose their enthusiasm. They're burned out. They've been doing their sports since they were five or ten. And the pressure around it. And so I believe ultimately that it's a conscious decision.”

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  19. “Know when he says your one time when you've been perfectly Iron Man forever and all of a sudden something happens, you're like the whole house breaks and you're in shock and you can't where if you've been through it and you've recovered once and then you did it and had another thing and you've had enough stuff but you've made it back through it builds the belief that you can do it”

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  20. “But that's come out of necessity. That's because I've been hurt so many times. I mean, you really don't learn anything about yourself ultimately until you've been injured. Again, back to failure, back to failure, whether it's something failed or you did something that made you crash and get hurt.”

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  21. “Exactly. So, I mean, but you know, I think that's, you know, again, those are the, you know, right now, like I said, it's a hip thing. And it's elusive thing. It's moving.”

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  22. “We're all, I mean, even, I mean, I told the girls the other day, I go, look at the tennis players. I go, look at their throwing hand. And they're like, oh my goodness, the guy's one arm is so much bigger than the other one. But you don't even see it unless you look for it.”

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  23. “Surfing and other things. But I broke my ankle a bunch of times in arch and a bunch of all the metatarsals and stuff on the left. The left ankle and the left foot has taken a lot of the impact. And so my right's been carrying it. For all these extra years. So it's got, my right leg has a couple, maybe five or ten more years of use than my left leg. So I'm dealing with that. And the fact is that we're all asymmetrical.”

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  24. “It's ongoing. I got a lot of destruction. You know, I've been beating myself up for a long time. So my weaknesses have more to do with damage. But like I got some hip flexor, something going on with my right leg because of the load that I put on it. Well, it's my back leg in certain, but it's also because my left leg's been broken seven times. So that's a surface.”

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  25. “with your left leg or even when you go into stretching and you look at stretching, why is my right hamstring so much looser than my left hamstring? Why is my quad so much tighter than my right quad? All those things, those are all weaknesses at the end.”

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  26. “Well, just, I mean, and listen, we know that if you work on being more amidextrous, that you get better. It's like, you know, you throw knives with your right hand and you're really good at it. We'll start throwing them with your left hand. It actually makes you better with your right. But again, about isolation of the weaknesses is about being realistic about what your flaws are and working on those. And that's why anything to do with instability, when you talk about balance or in the pool, it really is going to exaggerate those places that normally you can compensate. It's hard to compensate in the pool when you have to swim with your left hand if you have a big dumbbell in your right hand because there's no other left hand. There's only the one you have. And if it doesn't work, you got to figure out how to make it work, right? And you can really end, it really shows you. You can really see, you know, you throw a ball with your left hand if you're right-handed and you feel like, oh my gosh, whose arm is this? I can't even use this arm or kick.”

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  27. “Yes, disposition because you put might and aggression over there. The water goes, oh, mighty aggressive, perfect. I'll just drown you. And normally as males, we just implement aggression and power. And that here”

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  28. “He had the elements, though, because she was already a phenomenal swimmer, super strong girl and growing hard. You know, again, having those key components.”

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  29. “But being the student, being the student, being the teacher, being the student, all that, and also, and again, the willingness to fail being one of the key elements to all those things is ever present because that means you're willing to subject yourself to, okay, somebody knows something I don't know. That's failure. Some new thing you haven't done before that you're not going to be good at. Like people want to come in and be good at stuff. That's why the foil board drives half the guys away because they can't just get on it and rip it the first time. Well,”

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  30. “And you're like, wait, all you flexible people should go banks of iron, and all you big weightlifters should go do some yoga. But we always gravitate towards our strengths because we want to be in our glory. So we're like.”

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  31. “Have to be willing to accept your weaknesses and cultivate those. It's like, it's funny because everybody, the strong people all go lift weights.”

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  32. “Yeah, you handle the kettlebell on your psoas? On the psoas in the gut, and then he won Kelly one-up me with a 45-pound platter. But I didn't have that one by the pool, so I used a 10-pound platter. But just to get in there. Just the plate.”

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  33. “Well, actually, Kelly brought that and had the 45 pounds. And I was like, that's funny because I was just somebody else had just given me the kettlebell. So the kettlebell was a wicked one until I got the platter. Did you see give you those?”

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  34. “You have to do all the pieces too. You got to remember that as an athlete, you got to have, it's the whole picture. It's not just the physical, it's the eating, it's the sleeping, it's the relationships, it's all of those things. What you're putting in your brain, what you're putting in your mouth, I mean, these are all who you're hanging out with. All of that stuff is going to feed into the performance.”

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  35. “And we were talking about his training and everything. And I said, I go, let me just say what my perspective is when you ask me about training. In a way So that when you're done playing, you can go do all the things you want to do. And I don't mean sit around and drink whiskey and smoke cigars. I mean the things you want to do physically, like all of the things you want to do. So have a training routine and go about your playing so that when you're done doing that, you can walk, maybe that'd be great. How about you can run? How about you can swim? How about you can bike? How about you can go water ski, snow ski, or whatever things you want to do? Because there's obviously some things you're still going to want to do. Right. And so I think that's the focus is, right? It's like training for life. Like training in a way that's sustainable, that you can handle, like you said, you can't just take the hammering for the next 60 years and then wonder, well, man, I can't even walk. And even when you do it that way, it's still...”

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  36. “Of seeing it and being able to, well, just any one of the things I've been involved with. Knowing, like, for example, we were able to foil some giant surf this season. Now, up until then, we haven't really ever been. I was in doubt of being able to, even though instinctually, I knew that this is definitely the way to do this. This is the, but I didn't, I haven't seen it, you know, and again, it's that ability to see it before it's envision it, the possibility to know it. And then you have all those other things that you need to pursue. But you have to actually be able to see it well enough.”

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  37. “He said a key thing there. Paying attention, but also paying attention, but also part of paying attention is being aware of what's happening and seeing it before it's done. And so, I mean, at the end, it's about envisioning it too, right? You can see what you have to be able to see it to continue to pursue it.”

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  38. “Get dropped off and then pull it and let it pop up and see how we started just seeing if it was okay. So we'd have a pre-inflated hip in the off tied to our waist. So then we get dropped off in front of a giant wave. But we realized that the hippody hop just banging in the head. And you come up and you'd be face down and the hippity hop would be out of the water, but you would still be under. So we...”

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  39. “Where you just release the guy and he just fly as far as he could until he crashed and then it was over And sometimes you'd be like two miles out to sea with a giant quilt. Have you ever tried to swim with a quilt? It's very hard.”

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  40. “It was pre-flotation. Yeah. And we were in the giant surf, we were still kind of searching for flotation because we were worried about floating.”

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  41. “There's a problem. So then we just took that and we asked the guy if it was okay. If we played with it as long as we didn't damage any of it. And he said, sure. So I took the foil out of the board and I took a wake board and we made kind of a makeshift housing so that the foil could fit on there. And I put snowboard boots on it because we had been doing a lot of snowboarding. And we booted ourselves to it. And within the first year or two, all of a sudden, we're standing on this thing and flying. And as soon as we stood and flew and we knew we could control it, we were like, oh, now we have to go on the waves. We were like, this is going to be for wave ride.”

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  42. “Bad, and it has a big sharp blade on the bottom of it, so it's not something you don't want to be attached to because if the thing comes around, it could be a bad.”

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  43. “Oh, we can stand. I mean, it was hard because we were, you know, using the seat and kind of we didn't have bindings. And so I asked someone.”

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  44. “We wanted to do was stand on it because we go listen seating is not our thing. Again, part of our motto, you know, stand up on the golf board, stand up on stand-up paddling, stand up, like standing up, better positioned to be in. We're humans. You know, seated's not great, crawling's not wonderful, laying down's even worse. So we, you know, so we started to stand on it. And as soon as we stood on it, we go.”

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  45. “So now they have what's called a sky ski where they do flips and people ride these things and do amazing things on them and you're towed behind a boat like a water ski boat. And so we got one. And the first thing that we...”

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  46. “Yeah, and you're strapped to it with a seat. And I thought it was for handicapped initially because the position was very, you're strapped with a belt. Yeah, and that's a total.”

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  47. “No, actually, it was, you know, it's none of the stuff. I always say there's no new idea, just a new application of an old idea. So there is a seated foil called an air chair that somebody had in a garage on Maui. And one summer we were playing around. And my friend goes, oh, this guy's got this weird contraption. So we went over the house. It was in the corner, had dust on it, cobwebs. And we're like, hey, what's that? Oh, some stupid thing called an air chair. I mean, it wasn't bad enough that he would let us keep it, but we got it and we wrote it.”

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  48. “So we know there's a cap. And so at that point, and in the continual pursuit, it was how do we get what are we going to need to do? And we know that the only way we can do that is to not be on the surface because surface tension is the thing that creates the most drag, which is what is stopping us once the wave are moving at a certain speed.”

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  49. “Well, I mean, you know, you start giant starts at 50 foot faces and then we go, then it goes above. So 60, 70, 80 foot faces. I mean, that's giant. Big surf is, you know, when we say it's big, it's 50 and below. And then when it goes to giant, and then it goes to like ridiculous, enormous, you know, whatever. There's giant, there's big, there's giant, there's enormous, you know, and then everybody can get into 82.5 feet and all that stuff. But we found a cap, you know, at manual. Then we found a cap. Ultimately, we found a cap with towing.”

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  50. “Ways move faster, we're not able to physically Keep up. And that's where the concept of towing came from. The idea being towed onto one and using the power to match the speed of the wave in order to ride bigger surf. And when we did that, it made us allowed us to ride smaller equipment that was actually faster. And then we could perform on these giant ways. And”

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