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IT’S ALL ABOUT RIDING THE WAVE

IT’S another windy day in Cape Town and gusts are whipping up white horses across the expanse of False Bay.

But as usual nothing can stop hundreds of surfers taking to the water at Surfer’s Corner in Muizenberg where little kids, teenagers and veterans vie for space on the curling waves. One young surfer looks rather different to the others. He has no hands to paddle through the water from shore to backline to catch a wave and no legs to stand on when his board slices through a wave.

Raemondo Lessing (15) had one

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