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I've been surfing for a couple years, in the offseason in California and in Hawaii. I'm not very good, but it's just something that to be out there in the water, no cell phone, no music... very few sports are as pure as that.

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Troy Polamalu
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: April 19
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