There are few sports where a man who doesn’t like to compete is talked about as the best surfer in the world. Dane Reynolds qualified for the world tour but never looked like he could be bothered. He gets wild cards for events and he either shows up and loses first heat, or he goes berserk and wins or comes second.

There are only two gears in Dane’s repertoire, full throttle or idling. When he is at his best though he threads barrels like no one else in the world, he stomps airs which are seemingly unstompable and finds turns which defy the laws of physics. Is he the best surfer of all time? He’s probably in the top two, and it’s arguable that he is even more influential than Slater himself, when Dane drops a clip online, the internet stops to watch.