1:11:02
I had just done a GQ shoot
with Laird.
1:11:05
We both liked surfing.
1:11:08
So we started hanging out.
1:11:12
Buzzy and I had been playing around
in the Zodiac all summer...
1:11:15
...doing flat-water freeboarding.
1:11:17
We were freeboarding in the summer,
and there was a swell.
1:11:20
We were using swells for ramps,
and then we started...
1:11:23
...taking speed, catching waves,
and the light went off...
1:11:27
...and we were like:
1:11:28
"Oh, wow, we can catch waves. We
might be able to ride bigger waves."
1:11:56
In December of 1992, Laird Hamilton,
along with pro-surfer Buzzy Kerbox...
1:12:02
... and legendary
North Shore lifeguard...
1:12:04
... and Waimea Bay rider
Darrick Doerner...
1:12:06
...launched the surf
at Sunset Beach...
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... in a 16-foot inflatable Zodiac.
1:12:12
Neither of the three could've imagined
that by the time they got back...
1:12:16
... big-wave surfing
would be changed forever.
1:12:52
They weren't riding waves
that were significantly bigger...
1:12:55
...than guys had ridden. It was
how they were surfing the wave.
1:12:59
This radical new approach
of being whipped into a wave...