Surf4Sanity said...If I could surf all day long and rake in an income as big as Laird does by just licensing my name to products that I already use then I would be one happy camper
Yeah, the problem is though that first you have to do all the things that Laird does/has done. Including attracting a wife like his.
It's easy to be cynical about this kinda thing. But he's certainly helped accelerate awareness of our sport, and he's pretty entertaining. To become as famous as he is without competing is pretty remarkable - and means of course that he has to earn his money pretty much entirely through courting the media, which is always gonna look a bit desperate sometimes. He's like some hilarious media invention. But a lot of the sniping about him is of course just envy, and he's a glorious one-off IMO, and I'm glad he exists, cheesy coffee adverts, bare chest and all.