Career
In 2014 he was honoured as Great Britain team Captain for the WJC in Ecuador. Early years Born in 1996 at Townsville, Queensland, during a passage on a small sailboat from New Zealand, via Australia to Indonesia Taz was named after the famous Dutch explorer Abel Tasman, who discovered Tasmania, and gave his name to the Tasman Sea.
Brought up in North Devon, United Kingdom, Taz lived close to the hollow beach break at Croyde, at the heart of a coastline littered with long point breaks and craggy reefs.
Local surfing legends at Croyde and its Surf Club such as Ralph Freeman and Andrew Cotton inspired him.
Aged 8, he spent a year traveling with his family through Mexico and Central America. During his teens, camping out for weeks at a time at Easkey in North West Ireland, he was exposed to harsh conditions and powerful waves, an experience that was to lay the foundations for his growing reputation as one of the most fearless of United Kingdom grommets.
Junior An 11-year-old surfing the notorious reef at Porthleven in a white Gath crash helmet, captured the imagination of the surfing press Pitpilot magazine published photographs and article about the up & coming grommet.
The publicity led to sponsorship from West Wetsuits, and Taz was taken under the wing of Legendary British surfer & shaper Nigel Semmens Contest results soon followed, and numerous opportunities to traveling
With the attendant news & photo coverage in the surfing press Increasingly local and even national mainstream news picked up on the adventures, leading to further sponsorships from Quiksilver, and a place amongst the top ranked Juniors in the United Kingdom for the remainder of his Junior career. Professional Emerging from an 8 year career in the top echelon of British Junior surfing Taz was spotted by Watersports equipment manufacturer ION and Changing robe specialist Dryrobe and remained on the team at Nova Scotia Surfboards.
He continues to work for his sponsors whilst travelling the world in search of the perfect wave, blogging his adventures here.
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