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Nat's Nat & That's That: A Surfing Legend
This is a truthful autobiographical account joining 25 short stories from surfing legends Nat Young¹s first 50 years.....Mickey Dora and his Lotus on Pacific Coast Highway ...2nd prize over Buff¹s shoulder...Smoking the wallopers bob hope... and another 20 tales of his adventures with the most colourful characters involved in the surfing world. With the aid of his mum's journals and press clippings he was able to join the pieces of his life story together. Humble family beginings to world champion, husband to father, party animal to entrepreneur. Through all this Nat Young was destined to be a surfer and one of the best the world would ever see. This book is a fascinating combination of surfing history (Australian in particular) and the history of a man who pushed to get every ounce of enjoyment out of life. This is a very informative, yet light hearted book with more than its share of incredible surfing tales. From surfing the best waves the world has to offer, the early
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Nat Young
Australian surfer and author (born 1947)
Robert Harold "Nat" Young (born 14 November 1947) is an Australiansurfer and author.
Surfing career
Born in Sydney, New South Wales, Young grew up in the small coastal suburb of Collaroy. In 1964, he was runner-up in the Australian junior championship at Manly, and two years later was named world surfing champion in 1966. He won the title again (then called the Smirnoff World Pro/Am) in 1970. Young won three Australian titles in 1966, 1967 and 1969, and won the Bells Beach Surf Classic three times.[2][circular reference]
Young featured in a number of important surf films of 1960s and 1970s including the classic 1973 surf movie Crystal Voyager and he also had a featured role as surfer Nick Naylor in the 1979 Australian drama film Palm Beach.
Post-surfing career
Young ran for NSW Parliament in the 1986 by-election for the seat of Pittwater.[3] Labor did not run a candidate, and he was narrowly defeated by Liberal candidate Jim Longley.
Since retiring from professiona
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Robert ‘Nat’ Young was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 1987 as an Athlete Member for his contribution to the sport of surfing.
As a young boy ‘Nat’ Young reminded a fellow surfer of a “gnat sitting on the stern of the Queen Mary”. Years of usage have shortened the gnat to ‘Nat’ and transformed the outspoken critic of the surfing circuit into one of the world’s favourite surfers.
Young, while still a junior in 1963, won the Australian Open Surfing Championships at Bondi Beach. The first prize was a round-the-world first class air ticket, it took him six months to explore Hawaii and California before returning home. During this period he wrote a weekly surfing column for a Sydney newspaper and wrote for numerous surfing magazines around the world.
When he won the World Championship at Ocean Beach, San Diego, in 1966, Young was the first world champion who was not a native of the host country and became the first professional Australian surfer.
From 1964 until 1966, Young was the Australian Open champion and won th
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