Georg Hilmarsson is an ordinary surfer, living in an extraordinary place. Georg has the distinction of being one of Iceland\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s very first year-round, native surfers. Regardless of the cold air, cold water, and generally harsh conditions, Georg is truly stoked. (And no, it never does get warm.)<\/p>\n
An Aussie Beginning Georg Hilmarsson is an ordinary surfer, living in an extraordinary place. Georg has the distinction of being one of Iceland\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s very first year-round, native surfers. Regardless of the cold air, cold water, and generally harsh conditions, Georg is truly stoked. (And no, it never does get warm.) An Aussie Beginning Born and raised in Iceland, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13455,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13454\/revisions\/13455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBorn and raised in Iceland, Hilmarsson moved to Perth, West Australia with his mother when he was 10 years old, where he picked up surfing and was hooked immediately. Living right on the beach made his transition to surfing as simple as another young bloke falling into the rhythm of the Australian way of life. Hilmarsson picked up the Australian accent quickly, and says, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153People didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know I was a foreigner until I told them my name.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He fell …\u00c2\u00a0 Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"