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Name: Carwyn Williams
Age: 28
Job: Sports Sponsorship Manager
Years Surfing: On & off, around 3 years.
Habitat: Cardiff
Ambition: To be as good a surfer as my legendary namesake!
Boards: 3
Quiver: 9'0" Donald Takayama Tuflite; 7'2" Guts Griffiths 'Mullet', 6'10" Nigel Semmens Thruster.
Local Break: Rest Bay
Places Surfed: Wales, Devon, Cornwall, France.
Favourite Surf Films: Sprout, Stylemasters, The Free Way, Litmus
Worst Wipeout: Whitesands in '98. Fell off a mates pink pop-out and the wave lunged the nose of the board into my face, slicing the underneath of my nose open. Couldn't get many stitches in there 'cause the needle kept bouncing off the cartilage in my nose..!
Favourite Manoeuvre: Nice drawn out turns - am easy to please
Favourite Surfers: wounded gull & kev child
Worst Surfing Habit: Inadvertently getting in others way...
Best Surfing Experience: The rush of dropping into clean powerful Les Bourdaines sets.
Weirdest Surfing Experience: Getting mullered by a ravage set trying to get out back at Fresh West with a hangover, then riding the first wave in whilst spewing chunks...
Other Interests: Rock Climbing, Mountaineering, Skiing.