Born: 18 Jan, 1985

Home: Little Bay, Sydney

Job: Pro surfer

Home beach: Maroubra

Favourite wave: Redsands (NSW south coast)

Favourite trick: Anything that doesn’t result in major surgery

Best result: overall series winner 2010 O’Neill Coldwater Classic

Favourite music: Pretty much everything on my iPod

The most important thing you learned at school: You can’t lick your own elbow

Motto: Work kills more people than surfing

Sponsor: Mambo

Why: It’s my spiritual home … and their clothes meet the basic dress standards of the Australian Bar and Hotels Association

Currently: Living the dream

Future: Living Kelly Slater’s dream

Advice to young surfers: have all cheques made out to cash and if the taxman asks, you won it at the races