Carissa Moore: Surf queen carves out new era in women's boarding
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Hawaiian-born surfer Carissa Moore is a double world champion
- Twenty-two-year-old became sports youngest female world champion in 2011
- Women's surfing beginning to attract similar profile to men's world tour
- Moore's fame has arguably helped boost women's world tour prize money
CNN's Human to Hero series celebrates inspiration and achievement in sport. Click here for times, videos and features
(CNN) -- For the millions of us who sit at desks all day, Carissa Moore's description of her workplace might sound a little cruel.
"The water is my office and yeah, I get to spend almost every day in the ocean, and that's tremendous," Moore told CNN's Human to Hero series.
A place that conjures up an image of air-conditioned confinement to most means nothing but fresh air and freedom to the Hawaiian surfer.
"I just love riding a wave. I love getting up early in the morning and driving down to the beach and paddling out and every time I go out, I'm looking for that perfect wave," she explains.
"When you're out there and you find that one that you want to go for, it's just like everything else in the world disappears.
"It's just you and the ocean and just spontaneity and an expression of yourself. There's not really any thinking involved, it's just doing."
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Hawaiian-born surfer Carissa Moore is a double world champion
- Twenty-two-year-old became sports youngest female world champion in 2011
- Women's surfing beginning to attract similar profile to men's world tour
- Moore's fame has arguably helped boost women's world tour prize money
CNN's Human to Hero series celebrates inspiration and achievement in sport. Click here for times, videos and features
(CNN) -- For the millions of us who sit at desks all day, Carissa Moore's description of her workplace might sound a little cruel.
"The water is my office and yeah, I get to spend almost every day in the ocean, and that's tremendous," Moore told CNN's Human to Hero series.
A place that conjures up an image of air-conditioned confinement to most means nothing but fresh air and freedom to the Hawaiian surfer.
"I just love riding a wave. I love getting up early in the morning and driving down to the beach and paddling out and every time I go out, I'm looking for that perfect wave," she explains.
"When you're out there and you find that one that you want to go for, it's just like everything else in the world disappears.
"It's just you and the ocean and just spontaneity and an expression of yourself. There's not really any thinking involved, it's just doing."
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