{"id":27293,"date":"2011-12-20T08:29:56","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T16:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=27293"},"modified":"2011-12-20T08:30:23","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T16:30:23","slug":"gerard-butler-gets-mavericks-hold-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=27293","title":{"rendered":"Gerard Butler Gets Maverick&#8217;s Hold-down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/as_surf_butler_ski_576.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/as_surf_butler_ski_576.jpg','popup','width=576,height=324,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\/2011\/12\/as_surf_butler_ski_576-tm.jpg\" height=\"112\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"As Surf Butler Ski 576\" \/><\/a>An Sunday, December 18, 2011, while filming at Maverick&#8217;s for a movie on the life of big wave surfer <strong>Jay Moriarity<\/strong>, actor <strong>Gerard Butler<\/strong> (who plays <strong>Rick &#8220;Frosty&#8221; Hesson<\/strong> in the film) got tumbled through a two-wave hold down and took &#8220;five more on the head before being washed through the rocks on the inside,&#8221; according to a <strong>Frank Quirarte<\/strong> story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/action\/surfing\/story\/_\/id\/7368710\/gerard-butler-survives-two-wave-hold-mavericks\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN\/Action<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Talking to Wormhoudt on the dock, he said they were all sitting on the inside when a large outside set came through, swung way to the south, caught them off-guard and mowed them all down. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Butler was taken to Stanford Medical Center for observation, but was on his feet on the dock before getting into the ambulance. Assuming he&#8217;s fine, it was probably great research for his role.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/action\/surfing\/story\/_\/id\/7368710\/gerard-butler-survives-two-wave-hold-mavericks\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN\/Action<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfline.com\/surf-news\/mavericks-near-disaster_64047\/\" target=\"_blank\">Surfline<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Sunday, December 18, 2011, while filming at Maverick&#8217;s for a movie on the life of big wave surfer Jay Moriarity, actor Gerard Butler (who plays Rick &#8220;Frosty&#8221; Hesson in the film) got tumbled through a two-wave hold down and took &#8220;five more on the head before being washed through the rocks on the inside,&#8221; [&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":[15,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27293"}],"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=27293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27295,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27293\/revisions\/27295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}