Larry Blair

Surfer Larry Blair was born in 1958 in Sydney, Australia. Blair started surfing at age seven at Coogee Beach in Sydney, Australia and surprised everyone in the Australian surfing community after he won the Coca-Cola Surfabout contest in 1978 in which he narrowly beat reigning Australian surf champion Wayne Lynch. In the wake of this triumph Larry subsequently won the Pipeline Masters competition in Oahu, Hawaii two years in a row in both 1978 and 1979, respectively. Moreover, Blair enrolled in acting school the same year that he turned pro and played Sir Andrew Aguecheek in a Sydney theater company production of William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" in between his two Pipeline Masters wins as well as had a regular role as an injured surfer on the daytime soap opera The Young Doctors (1976). He eventually moved to Bali, Indonesia, where he married a Balinese woman and had a son, Reef.