Hailing from the Sunshine Coast, Harrison Roach rose to prominence as a stylish ambassador of classical longboarding and ride-everything mastery.

Over the last two decades, his free surf career has taken him around the globe, from Noosa’s small crystal peelers through big Indonesian tubes to the Aleutian Islands and beyond. In 2019, after the WSL shifted its judging from high-performance to more traditional criteria, Harrison re-entered the competitive sphere, taking home his maiden World Title in 2022.

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