The Wildest Man In Surfing - How Chris Ward Lives Now

🤙 Join the inner circle → patreon.com/c/INSANESurfer Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8iGOEeRGyqpU1Kr370Yw8Q/join Chris Ward once had one of surfing's top shapers calling him the most talented surfer alive, then a bar fight, a domestic battery charge, and a jail sentence buried almost all of it. This video follows Ward from a San Clemente childhood and the year his father's cancer diagnosis and his daughter's birth hit at the same time, through his rise on the world tour and a Pipe Masters final against Kelly Slater, into the 2015 domestic battery charge and the sixty days he spent in a maximum security jail, and into the quieter life he has built since with his daughter Malia. Every date, charge, and quote is pulled from real reporting, not assumed. A few of the harder moments in this story have no surviving footage, so those sections are told through his own words and verified reporting rather than a clip. By the end, one sentence should feel obvious: the surfer everyone tried to sum up in one headline was never that simple. Next up: how another Pipeline legend rebuilt his name after his own rock bottom. Subscribe so you catch it. If I got a detail wrong, tell me in the comments. I read them, and I would rather fix it than defend it. FREE The Inertia, Chris Ward Behind Bars for Violating Parole in Domestic Abuse Case: https://www.theinertia.com/news/chris-ward-behind-bars-for-violating-parole-in-domestic-abuse-case/ Stab Magazine, Chris Ward In Maximum Security Jail: https://stabmag.com/news/chris-ward-in-maximum-security-jail/ The Inertia, The Untold Story of Chris Ward Ep. 3: https://www.theinertia.com/surf/the-untold-story-of-chris-ward-ep-3/ Stab Magazine, Generations with Chris Ward: https://stabmag.com/stabcinema/generations-with-chris-ward/ Surf Europe, The Chris and Malia Ward Story: https://surfeuropemag.com/features/chris-malia-ward-story-generations-ep-4.html Wikipedia, Chris Ward (surfer): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Ward_(surfer) World Surf League, Chris Ward athlete bio: https://www.worldsurfleague.com/athletes/58/chris-ward Surfboardline.com, Chris Ward: https://surfboardline.com/chris-ward/ This video from INSANE Surfer uses short archival clips from EpicTV, BurgerTV, and other publicly available YouTube footage under fair use for commentary and criticism, combined with licensed stock B-roll for scenes with no surviving footage. No footage in this video was AI generated or created to simulate real events. Covered in this video: Chris Ward surfer, Wardo surfing, Chris Ward Pipe Masters, Chris Ward arrest, Chris Ward jail, Chris Ward domestic violence charge, Chris Ward daughter Malia, Chris Ward Kelly Slater, San Clemente surfers, ASP World Tour surfers. #ChrisWard #Surfing #PipeMasters #SurfDocumentary #Wardo 🔴 COPYRIGHT NOTICE INSANE Surfer does not fully own the material compiled in this video. It belongs to individuals or organizations that deserve respect. We use it under Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, which allows "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 🔴 If you are the owner of the materials used in this video, please let us know in the comments. We will follow your request promptly.