Shaun Tomson talks to the HPSA group

by Patrick | Mar 15, 2017 | Legends

Surfer’s Code is a program that Shaun Tomson has created to empower young athletes around South Africa and in the USA. As the vanguard of South African Surfing Legends, he dedicates time and energy to the HPSA, the group’s coaching program. On Monday while he was in...

Gavin Varejes – making a difference

by Patrick | Feb 11, 2017 | Legends

  When we decided to get this Legends thing going in 2014 on the North Beach Pier, Graham Cormac made the suggestion that we model the group on South African Rugby Legends. I kinda recalled the organization that celebrates the sport of rugby by honouring retired...

Sisonke Development Challenge

by Patrick | Oct 24, 2016 | Legends

Sisonke roughly translated means ‘together’. On the weekend of 22/23 October 2016, Sisonke Surf Club, a loosely knit group of surfers from Trafalgar, Umzumbe and Durban came ‘together’ to run a highly successful event at Dairy Beach in Durban. Saturday morning a small...

Warrior Mindset

by Patrick | Oct 13, 2016 | Legends

In 2017 Shaun Tomson celebrated the fortieth anniversary of winning the 1977 IPS World Title. The only Saffa ever to do so. This exchange with Adriano De Souza, the 2015 WSL title holder is priceless if you have any aspirations of gold and glory as a competitive...

Frankie O

by Patrick | Aug 25, 2016 | Legends

Matt Warsaw’s Encyclopedia of Surfing post on Frankie Oberholzer goes like this:   “Camera-friendly pro surfer from Warner Beach, South Africa. Oberholzer was born (1972) in Port Elizabeth, raised in Warner Beach, south of Durban, and began riding waves at age...

The Greek

by Patrick | May 7, 2016 | Legends

  The first two things that struck me about ‘The Greek’, George Thomopoulos, when I first met him as a class mate at Glenwood High School in the early sixties were the size of his muscle and the size of his smile. The school had some big heroes like Rocky Ailwood...