WSL Big Wave Tour Champion Grant Twiggy Baker Chats: His Fav Break, Bodysurfing, & Ride of the Year
Channel: Slyde Handboards
Date: 2019-05-17

We're here with none other than the great Grant Twiggy Baker; a legend in the flesh. So three times Big Wave Tour World Champ and recently crowned the third right?

You watch him, you know, online or like in videos, I mean, I spent my entire youth watching a lot of those guys just surfing, some of the biggest, gnarliest, craziest waves so it was like a moment of a lifetime that's for sure. 

So yeah, we wanted to ask a lot of our followers and you guys asked questions and wanted to get some answers from Twiggy. So but first we want to just find out a little bit about yourself like where you're, like where you grew up little bit?
Interviewee: I grew up in and around Durban mostly on the North Coast of Durban

Interviewer: Yeah.
Interviewee: Which is about 20 minutes outside of Durban. Now, I live about 40 minutes outside of Durban, Belita but yeah, kind of the whole coast of KwaZulu-natal was my --
Interviewer: As it was myself as well.  I grew up surfing Town and like Snake Park
Interviewee: Yeah, yes Dairy Beach,  Umhlanga Rocks,--
Interviewer: Yeah

Interviewee: Cave Rock, I sent a lot of time there at the Bluff
Interviewer: [inaudible 01:46] from the Bluff.  Cool. So yeah, I mean like that was kind of, you know, that the like what was so awesome as well both basically from the same place. We went to schools just down the road from each other. So I kind of has a kindred kind of love for our country, which is awesome. So on to the questions. When did you start surfing?|

Interviewee: I started bodyboarding at a very young age. My family was very beach orientated. My dad was a keen fisherman and a body surfer used to love to body surf on Dad. And so we just, I grew up on and around the beach and I think I had my first bodyboard like five years old. Actually, I had a skimboard really early.
Interviewer: That was big like I remember like when we were growing up.


Interviewee: Yes, I actually think probably my skimboard and a bodyboard came about around about the same time between kind of five and six years old.
Interviewer:  Cool, so yeah quite a bit like I started probably bodysurfing in Cape Town. My mom was taking us down to the beach remember that like that four, five like kind of just one of the things you do.
Interviewee: I kind of grew up in the shore breaks. My house was across the road from the beach in La Lucia there. So those shore breaks in front that area between kind of the Ganey River mouth and [inaudible 3:19] is just one huge shore break at high tide and are I pretty much grew up in that shore break. Every day I'll go swimming, body surfing in a shore break and I think that's what gave me the affinity for Barrel. I mean you can get 50 barrels in one day in your natural [inaudible 03:33].


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