Dora is an enigma, a total man of mystery yet also one of surfing’s most important figures. Born in Hungary his mother moved to the States and married a Californian surfer and Malibu local who taught Miki to surf. What followed was a life of courting attention, then lambasting it, he became the first archetypal anti hero, the very foundation of what we now see as the surfing rebel.

He surfed incredibly and became perhaps the best rider ever of the waves at legendary Californian point break, Malibu, but it was his total rejection of the Hollywood projection of surfing in the 50’s and 60’s which made him legend. The blankets and beach babes clean living side of Californian surf culture meant nothing to him and he went out of his way to become the antithesis of that. He is the original surfing rebel, influencing generations to follow.