{"id":1172,"date":"2008-07-18T10:43:42","date_gmt":"2008-07-18T17:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2008-07-18T10:46:34","modified_gmt":"2008-07-18T17:46:34","slug":"laird-hamilton-surf-businessman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1172","title":{"rendered":"Laird Hamilton: Surf Businessman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/lairdx-large.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/lairdx-large.jpg','popup','width=490,height=416,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/lairdx-large-tm.jpg\" height=\"169\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Lairdx-Large\" \/><\/a>While normally getting coverage for his monster waveriding skills, or for his perfect fitness, <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/money\/smallbusiness\/2008-07-17-laird-hamilton-stand-up-paddle-surf_N.htm\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today&#8217;s<\/a><\/em><\/strong> story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?s=laird+hamilton\" target=\"_blank\">Laird Hamilton<\/a><\/strong> (the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.honoluluadvertiser.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20080717\/BREAKING01\/80717066\/-1\/LOCALNEWSFRONT\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Burton of stand-up paddling<\/a><\/strong>) focuses on the business side of his life.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hamilton this year joined the board of directors of San Diego-based <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.h20audio.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">H2O Audio<\/a><\/strong>, which makes products that waterproof digital audio players, such as <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Apple-iPod-classic-Black-Generation\/dp\/B000JLKIHA%3FSubscriptionId%3D02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002%26tag%3Dsacklunch%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB000JLKIHA\">iPod <\/a><\/strong>. . . . He&#8217;s done motivational speeches for companies and is releasing a fitness manual, <strong><em>Force of Nature: Laird Hamilton&#8217;s Handbook for Peak Living<\/em><\/strong>, in November. He also buys, develops and sells real estate in Hawaii and is developing property on Maui and Kauai. . . . And it appears he could already be headed for a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1083\" target=\"_blank\">business wipeout<\/a><\/strong>. In spring, Laird launched a clothing line called <strong>Wonderwall<\/strong> sold at retailer <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.steveandbarrys.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steve &#38; Barry&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong>, where most clothes sell for about $10. The retailer, though, filed for bankruptcy protection last week, and its future is murky.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Click the link for the rest of the surfer-as-businessman story.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/money\/smallbusiness\/2008-07-17-laird-hamilton-stand-up-paddle-surf_N.htm\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While normally getting coverage for his monster waveriding skills, or for his perfect fitness, USA Today&#8217;s story on Laird Hamilton (the Jake Burton of stand-up paddling) focuses on the business side of his life. Hamilton this year joined the board of directors of San Diego-based H2O Audio, which makes products that waterproof digital audio players, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}