Talk:Laird Hamilton

Poor quality article.

This article makes no mention of Hamilton's book, Force of Nature. This information should be added. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.2.54.228 (talk) 17:51, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

So I put it in. W Nowicki (talk) 22:05, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

Image was incorrectly labeled as "The Wave" when it was actually taken 6 years after, Corrected now. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.153.158.144 (talk) 23:25, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

The tone of this article is overly praising and gushing, and the author is excessively enamored with the subject. It lacks the neutrality of a useful wiki entry. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.81.164.180 (talk) 07:52, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

This article is poorly written, badly referenced and lacking in objectivity. Comments please... --LostEditor 08:48, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

The article has sufficiant documentation and facts to back up the writing piece. The article should not be deleted. Opinions and questionable items have been removed.--75.89.48.37 (talk) 02:10, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

I apologize for the remark in the edit summary about the PROD being an attack. The edits have improved the aricle, it seems to me. But why go through all the work and then PROD what is obviously a notable article? I don't get it... Shawn in Montreal (talk) 03:12, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

This article is broadly incoherant and laughably childish in its fanboyishness. Come on lads, if you want to contribute to wikipedia at least learn to construct a coherant sentence. I can't be bothered but please someone re-write in a encyclopaedic fashion (ha) with more references. --Spider669 (talk) 20:21, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

This article is HILARIOUS! It should be left exactly as it is if only for the comedic value. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.116.212.23 (talk) 17:45, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

Well please do help making it better instead of just complaining. I spent a couple days but there is more to do. One thing is to put some of the unsourced stuff here until we can find sources for, say, quotes.

By the age of 17, Hamilton had become an accomplished surfer and could have left modeling to pursue a career on surfing's World Championship Tour. However, competitive surfing and contests never appealed to Hamilton, who had watched his father Bill endure the competitive surfing contest politics and the random luck of the waves in organized championship surfing events. Bill Hamilton regarded surfing more as a work of art, rather than based chiefly on wave-by-wave ride performance scored by judges. As a young Hamilton once said,

"Contests are less about the one big wave than about your performances. Surfing is about your body of work. It's about art. I would snap if I was letting someone other than the audience determine my fate. How does a musician judge his thing? By how many people love his music?"

The fearless Hamilton admitted afterward that he was excited about the forming wave around him, disregarded the danger, and was pushing himself to drive to the "max, max, max, max".

During the making of Waterworld, Hamilton, who had been commuting to the set via jet-ski, was lost at sea when his personal water craft ran out of fuel between Maui and the Big Island. He drifted before being spotted by a Coast Guard plane and rescued; when the abandoned jet-ski washed up on shore on the island of Lanai, he went over to fetch it and drove it back home again.

Besides, "jet-ski" is a trademark of one brand of personal water craft. W Nowicki (talk) 22:05, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

One more bit - although some sources say he was born in a bathysphere, that article talks about deep-sea exploration! I suspect the idea was just a variant of what midwives use: water birth. The Sundance channel calls it a "babysphere" so that might be the more proper term? W Nowicki (talk) 00:00, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

Filmography

This article needs one. Hamilton has a small but serious part in The Descendants, released in November 2011. Not to mention his roles in numerous documentaries. Jrgilb (talk) 04:46, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

Strangely written and very subjective tone to this article

Especially the part about his youth in Hawaii being "bigger, blonde, and aggressive" as opposed to his "smaller" non-blonde, none-fair contemporaries. Makes it sound like he has racial issues with non-whites, particularly native Hawaiians if you ask me.--72.67.43.223 (talk) 21:18, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

Judging from Susan Caseys book about monster waves he did indeed have trouble of that kind - but the other way round. Actually HE was the racial outside in Hawaii at that time (if she's telling the truth). It's not for the first time that I read that in those years (the guy is a little older, right ?) non-Hawaiians had trouble with the natives and not only on the beaches. She mentiones that Hamilton got respect later when he showed his talent. Well, I was never there and did not buy the T-shirt either ;-) ... JB. --92.195.10.104 (talk) 08:28, 8 July 2016 (UTC)

Kids not for both parents ?

Comparing the pages for L. Hamilton and Gabrielle Reece I noticed that she gets their kids mentioned in the box of her life stats while he doesn't. Is that some kind of "kids belong to the mother" nonsense or what ? Sometimes it looks like we'll never arrive in civilization ;-). JB. --92.195.10.104 (talk) 08:22, 8 July 2016 (UTC)

why is his spouse not listed in the infobox?

to add to comment above, why does he not have a spouse in his infobox? his wife lists him in her infobox...

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:6000:1523:C33C:7036:AF92:6F0D:4484 (talk) 15:24, 5 July 2019 (UTC) 

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Heritage

Sources state Hamilton has Greek heritage, with his biological father reportedly immigrating from Greece to California before leaving Hamilton and his mother.[1]

IDK where users found that "Zerfas" is an Anglicized form of German, Dutch or Northern French surnames,[2] but that looks like original research. It's possibly that his father had a Greek name that was Anglicized to "Zerfas" and unrelated to any German, Dutch, etc names. Tons of people, especially in America, have names that may not match their heritage. Jennifer Aniston's Greek-born father, John Aniston, Anglicized his name to "Aniston". It is not a Greek name. Clear Looking Glass (talk) 20:35, 11 March 2024 (UTC)