Prestage, Todd

Thin, loose-limbed Australian pro surfer from Gerringong, New South Wales; world- ranked #12 in 1996. Prestage began surfing in 1980 at age eight; 10 years later he moved to Oceanside, California, to take advantage of America's superior minor-league pro circuit, and was regarded as a turncoat by most of Australia's often-nationalistic surfing population. Prestage first defended himself as a "tru...