Hell's Kitchen, where he taught the red team how to wakeboard as part of their team challenge win. In the 2015 film Point Break, Hamilton played a surf vagabond tossing a tow rope to Utah, played by Luke Bracey. A chapter about Hamilton appears in Scott Carney's New York Times bestselling book What Doesn't Kill Us. Hamilton has a chapter giving advice in Tim Ferriss' book Tools of Titans. Works Appeared on the television show FitTVs "Insider Training" with his wife Notes References Further reading . External links Another set of photographs of Laird Hamilton riding "The Wave" at Teahupoo, August 17, 2000, by Tim McKenna Laird Hamilton profiled on clubofthewaves.com 1964 births American kitesurfers Male models from California American surfers American windsurfers Living people People from Kauai County, Hawaii People from Maui Sportspeople from Hawaii Sportspeople from San Francisco Tow-in surfers Male kitesurfers Male models from Hawaii Big wave surfers