He\u2019s pioneered spots, broken limits at every venue, won more XXL awards than just about anyone, and has won 3 x WSL Big Wave world titles. The guy is a beast.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s now also officially on The Search.<\/p>\n
After signing a deal with us, he\u2019ll now be exploring, pushing boundaries and documenting his adventures with Rip Curl riding shotgun.<\/p>\n
Twiggy\u2019s relationship with Rip Curl goes a long way back. He almost signed with us a decade ago, has organised Search trips behind the scenes in his home continent of Africa, and always has a high five for the crew at events. The most recent of those events was the Rip Curl Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational, where we started chatting about making things official properly this time.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been a dream of mine to be on the Search forever, since the days of Tom Curren and my friends Frankie and Byron finding those new waves in Indo,\u201d says Twiggy. \u201cThe Search instilled in me a sense of adventure and showed me the possibilities of what was out there, closer to home, around Africa. I spent the last 30 years of my life rustling up enough money to go out and explore these places, so when JT approached me in Hawaii this year and asked if I had anything up my sleeve for Rip Curl, I smiled, nodded and here we are.\u201d<\/p>\n
The agreement will see Twiggy doing what he does best.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is an opportunity to go back to surf spots around Africa and document the adventure properly,\u201d<\/strong> Twiggy continues. \u201cSomething I didn\u2019t have the budget to do in the past, as well as do first trips to places that I have always wanted to visit and see what the surf potential is. It also gives me the chance to continue to surf big waves during the Northern Hemisphere season and to start being more of a mentor and coach to the next generation of big wave surfers, helping push the sport forward in a positive way.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n It will also give him the scope and focus to achieve a lifelong dream of potentially winning the most prestigious big wave event on the planet – The Eddie.<\/p>\n \u201cI have dedicated the past 20 years of my life to building my surfing up to a level to make this possible and right now I feel, if it runs again soon, I will have my best chance.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n We\u2019ll see if it runs or not. Either way, Twiggy will be throwing himself headlong into adventures and headfirst over steep ledges and heaving slabs. That\u2019s exactly what the Search is about. In Twiggy\u2019s own words: \u201cfreedom, adventure, fun, barrels, perfection and the ultimate lifestyle.\u201d<\/strong> It\u2019s incredible to have you on the team, Twiggy.<\/p>\n Can\u2019t wait to see where you go next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s hard to understate the impact Grant \u2018Twiggy\u2019 Baker has had on big wave surfing. He\u2019s pioneered spots, broken limits at every venue, won more XXL awards than just about anyone,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[594],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-team"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ripcurl.com.vn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ripcurl.com.vn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ripcurl.com.vn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ripcurl.com.vn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ripcurl.com.vn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ripcurl.com.vn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ripcurl.com.vn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ripcurl.com.vn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ripcurl.com.vn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n