For Laird Hamilton, the hard-charging surfer known for “The Heaviest Wave” ever ridden at Teahupo’o, basically inventing foiling, and pioneering tow-in surfing, the blessings and burdens of the human ...

No more scraping by on four or five hours. For top performance, shoot for seven to eight (or, in my case, nine) every night. To support the recovery that happens overnight, I drink chaga tea before I ...

I ask a lot of my body. On a big day of surfing, I’m up before 5 am and can be in the water for six hours—and that might be after a week or two of high activity. The extreme conditions demand an ...