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Like  the rest of the surf world, I first met Grant “Twiggy” Baker almost exactly eight years ago. He was the Billabong sales rep from Durban who’d gotten enough votes online to snag a wildcard slot into the Maverick’s contest. (“Everyone in
Santa Cruz was against each other, I had a whole country voting for me.”) He won the event in crazy-big, perfect surf on what turned out to be an 8’10” Randy Cone gun.

Since then, you’ve seen his exploits. Multiple XXL-winning waves. Crazy discoveries in South Africa, Madagascar, Mozambique, Namibia and beyond. A surfer’s surfer, always putting himself in the biggest and best waves  …  More

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