Surfers usually hate crowds, but these adaptive athletes know getting more people in the water could be the key to potential Paralympic glory.
About 90 surfers from 17 different countries gathered at Byron Bay, on the NSW far north coast, this week for the first Association of Adaptive Surfing Professionals contest ever held in Australia.
The Hawaiian relied on his limited peripheral vision, and a local surfer acting as his spotter, to surf his way across the peeling waves on offer at The Pass."If you feel something drop out then you go up and hit it. After working for years to make the contest a reality, Mark "Mono" Stewart scored an almost-perfect 9.5 ride in the last minute of the final to win his division.Sabalenka receives warm embrace after winning first Miami Open match following death of former partner
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