speaking about the ride to action sports and adventure website mpora, laird said: “that was all about faith. believing i could. that wave in teahupo’o was a wave we didn’t know existed. we hadn’t seen waves like that. in my world, when i was a kid, i went to every surf movie, i knew all of the best surfers in the world, i was in the middle of all it… but a wave like that did not exist, and the ability to ride that wave in any form didn’t exist either."