LAIRD HAMILTON and HERBIE FLETCHER parts from ROOTS SURF MOVIE T.R. PRODUCTIONS

Longboard surfing has never been as creative as when Laird Hamilton paddled out this day at on a 12 foot paddleboard and put on this display of technical longboarding wizardry in the waves of Hookipa, Maui. When it comes to Ride Everything, no surfer has ripped harder over and for as many years in big wave charging, foil, SUP, kite, and iconic tube rides than this innovative Hawaiian performer. 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.
Herbie Fletcher's innovations go all the way back to the first known skateboarding poll sessions all the way to his sideslipping matador noseriding charging at Backdoor Pipeline. In the 60's, at 18, he’d made a very serious mark, winning the Juniors division at Redondo Beach and placing seventh in the world. Then, in the ’70s, Fletcher bought Astrodeck and, using his powerful persona and industry connections, turned it into “the sport’s best known accessory”, as Matt Warshaw called it in the Encyclopedia of Surfing. Fletcher and his boys, Christian and Nathan, made a habit of doing things well before they became the norm. In 1985, he rode 20 footers at Waimea on a jet ski, and just a few years later he helped invent tow surfing at the Banzaii Pipeline.
From the movie "Roots" by Tony Roberts TR Productions
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I read somewhere that Laird's parents had a 3rd testicle added at birth