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"Laird Hamilton, who by all accounts absolutely ruled this epic session from the word go. "There was everybody else, and then there was Laird," says Sharp. "He simply schooled everyone out." Riding what seemed like an absurdly short 6 2" tow-board, Hamilton faded where others ran for the shoulder, carved with confidence where other surfers chattered and basically rode 60-foot Peahi as if it were 10-foot Honolua. On one massive wall he dropped into the bowl, turned mid-face and carved up into the lip, top-turning at full velocity on a wave whose top was over five stories high. Hamiltons futuristic performance was the perfect punctuation on a historic day of surfing, a standard-setting session that put to rest any speculation about the new direction of big-wave riding.
Remember the date. November 26, 2002: the day big-wave surfing's future officially arrived."
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