Surfers are the bedrock of our culture. We all have varying levels of talent and ability. Some, like Koby Oberholzer, seen here slipping stylishly under the lip behind the rocks on the KZN South Coast, are simply born to it, as if finding his way into these unique spaces of time, weather and geography is the most natural and easy thing, as if it’s simply hardwired into the DNA. The rest of us are caught somewhere in the middle, slowly striving to improve ourselves, hoping to iron out the kinks and wobbles with every wiggle. No matter how you got here, what you’re into or where you’re headed, there can be no denying the influence that individual surfers, the special ones, have had on the direction of this thing called…
