00:07all right well jason maybe take some tips from this guy he is coping with his gambling addiction
00:12okay who is he he's in hawaii sure his name is buddy wiggins easy what does buddy like to play
00:18uh buddy doesn't like to play anything anymore but in his spare time he instead of thinking
00:23about gambling he teaches people how to surf for free just search something to do so he stops
00:28thinking about gambling his mind occupied i don't know how to surf no you don't something else never
00:35surf to play basketball then yeah you wanted to see how to miss every shot you take come on i'll
00:41teach you you can teach kids like the fundamentals yeah and then at some point they'll have to go to
00:47a real coach he's no buddy wiggins we're never picking up on care he's no buddy wiggins here's
00:52the story from cbs kids oh buddy wiggins of honolulu hawaii excuse me it has come to this
01:00can i bother you for a second no i'm okay with thanks soliciting strangers oh no the end result
01:05of a years-long sports gambling addiction yeah i finally came to a point where i lost pretty much
01:12everything and i'm on my hands and knees i'm crying and that's when this 32-year-old pool cleaner
01:19says he heard a voice oh no a calling to take his life in a radically different direction
01:24no no no what buddy felt called to do was to come down here to waikiki beach to go up
01:30to total
01:31strangers who'd never surfed before who often never wanted to surf and then ask them
01:37to surf if we offered you a free surf lesson what would you say buddy calls it the first wave
01:44project let's do it twice a week now he and a couple buddies extend their free offer to the most
01:50unlikely surfers they can find today it's michael peralta of carson city nevada he's a former
01:57lightweight boxer and if early indications are correct an even lighter weight surfer
02:03no we'll get back to him in a minute but first let's hear some success stories please the energy
02:10that they had made you feel like you could do exactly what he was saying that's it and when i
02:16did i'm all this is nice that's amazing they gave me a confidence that i haven't had since i was
02:22in my
02:2230s that often lasts a lot longer than the ride how do you explain that this carries on for so
02:32long
02:32in their lives i think when you've overcome things that you never thought was possible you start
02:37thinking okay what's next so far buddy and his team have helped about a hundred people ride that wave of
02:44inspiration including michael the guy who at first couldn't even lie on the board what the hell did this
02:53let's go all thanks to that mysterious voice in buddy's head that told him to tackle his addiction
03:00how's that by sharing his passion weird as that sounds especially in a time where i'm struggling
03:07financially like why for free you know have you figured out an answer to that the feeling of giving
03:13you know the feeling of giving oh shut up oh man best wave ever um i'll tell you this right
03:24now if i
03:25ever stood up on a surfboard everything about me would change what do you mean you'd take on a whole
03:31new like sense of kindness i'd have one of those like willy style vehicles oh you'd be like you'd go
03:37full surfer mode i would be gnarly dude i'd listen to beach boys non-stop some jan and dean let's
03:44go
03:44surfing now everybody's learning how come on in safari with me non-stop and uh that's it i'll be like
03:52yeah i caught a cool wave i'd just once right every once you got up on a board once for
03:58two seconds
03:58yeah i was like killer you know change your life there's a surfboard hanging out of the back of your
04:04ride now i'd talk to you all the time there's nowhere to surf around here like i was patrick
04:08swayze in point break you'd be all in all in dude on a wave you're unstoppable i understand what
04:19they're saying like the confidence the confidence would you just carry your board with you i could
04:24see you of course i'd be waxing it in here you got a seashell necklace oh my god i've already
04:32got it
04:32i've already got it flops he didn't race the flops hang loose yeah yeah yeah bro hang loose oh my
04:39god
04:40guys that'd be salt life go hit away all that stuff man i'll teach you you'll be my first one
04:47holy cow
04:48have you surfed before no but i overcome my gambling addiction i'll just try to teach people
04:53how to surf when i overcome it i won't i don't have those voices might say play another one you're
04:59gonna win this time oh my god you haven't hit rock bottom yet that's the addiction you were so close
05:06you can't win if you don't you're not teaching anyone anything you can't win if you don't play
05:10that's bad advice is it it's not great so surfer chuck you'd basically just be like rowan
05:15you just talk like yeah oh yeah unless you talk like that like dude he would change he'd be like
05:23i can't talk like that right you you still say my dad's a surfer it's so embarrassing i just leave
05:29everything behind i just go and i've seen how they live out there on the west coast they just live
05:35in
05:35a van they do yeah they don't care about anything no it is a it is a lifestyle for sure
05:39live in a van
05:40dude they don't care they got a wetsuit and a board and some wax and a van but you don't
05:47like
05:47people seeing you in your wetsuit listen he's halfway there i mean i've already he's got a wetsuit
05:53he's got all this stuff yeah oh my god never thought about how close i am you're so close to
05:58being a surfer oh my god dude you gotta get a hair transplant then oh for sure
06:07yeah spicoli i gotta have this spicoli oh guys it would change everything i mean it would change
06:14everything i hate to say it i just know it i saw some very rotund men yeah they get up
06:21on that
06:22there were some chubby guys i would have never thought i mean i don't know what kind of special
06:27boards they're on you know extra wide i'd like that though i think i like that extra wide
06:34big and tall surfboards is there such a thing i need them i need them it's gotta be has to
06:40be
06:40well we'll see if chuck leads the surf life look out dangerous he ever gets up on a board we're
06:45in
06:46trouble
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