Christian Fletcher is the archetypal surfing rebel. Incredibly naturally talented, he marked the transition from power and rail to rail surfing and ushered in the radical aerial movement that is more common today. It was not a change that was entirely welcomed however, the heavily tattooed rebel came in for a lot of stick from the surf community and he was frozen out of contests; primarily because the judges didn’t get what he was up to.

By being pushed aside the legend just grew and he led a group of aerial surfers who were to change surfing forever. Christian has gone down in history as a bit of a hell raiser, in and out of the water. He has battled drug addiction, authority and himself at times, but he is the anti hero that helped drag surfing into the place we have it now.