THE BLUFF

So first tell us about your time in Tasmania. Were you out there just to surf?

I was actually on my way to Bali from Chile where I was on a ski trip. I had a stopover in Sydney where I met with Tim Bonython, who shoots big wave surfing. I've been with him in Teahupoo and Nazaré a bunch of times, and he was trying to persuade me to go to Tasmania. I was super jetlagged and coming out of an injury, so I wasn’t very keen. Anyway, long story short, he did manage to talk me into it! I like giant waves, but Shipsterns hadn’t been on my list of waves that I wanted to surf.

You look pretty comfortable on that foil. How long have you been foiling?

Well I don’t know if I look too comfortable! But I’ve been foiling for around 10 years, from back when we were using snowboard boots and steel masts, and we could only tow-in. Back then the foils would only work in pretty big waves where you had a lot of speed. I made