How fasting, tai chi and a rooftop garden help this art restorer excel


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Laborde working in his downtown Los Angeles studio. Photos: Jason Armond/Los Angeles Times/TNS

Forget elaborate coffee orders; when art restorer Henri Laborde needs to wake up in the morning, he'll take a bracing bodysurf in the churning, ice-cold waves of the Pacific Ocean.

"You get out of (the ocean) and you feel like someone took one of those pressure washers, and just kind of washed you inside. You feel cleansed, you feel energetic," he says.

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