Shane Dorian spent 11 years touring on the World Championship Tour as a professional surfer.
17 Facts About Shane Dorian
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Shane Dorian is currently a big wave surfer and one of the best in the world at big wave riding.
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Shane Dorian was born to Patrick and Susan, who had a restaurant called "Shane Dorian's" on the beach.
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Shane Dorian enjoys taking care of an orchard that consists of 110 fruit trees at an elevation of 4000 feet above sea level.
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Shane Dorian started out on a bodyboard alongside friend, and future bodyboarder champion, Mike Stewart.
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Shane Dorian received his first surfboard, from his dad, on his fifth birthday.
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Shane Dorian soon abandoned the bodyboard to focus on surfing.
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In 1987, Shane Dorian had his first major success at the Gotcha Pro competition at Sandy Beach.
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Shane Dorian was able to beat some big names, made it through four rounds, and received some media exposure.
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Shane Dorian has been a long-time member of the Billabong US surf team, his main sponsor.
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Shane Dorian joined the ASP World Tour in 1993, where he hovered outside of the top 10 for a number of years before a fourth-place world finish in 2000.
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Shane Dorian has won a number of events in his career, including the Rip Curl Pro in 1999 and the 2000 Billabong Pro at Mundaka.
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In 2004, Shane Dorian retired from the WTC tour, but not from a being a professional; choosing to focus on becoming a better surfer.
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Shane Dorian took the top prize at the 2008 Global Big Wave awards in California.
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Shane Dorian is featured in an ESPN on ABC television series three-part special called World of X-Games: Big Wave Hellmen that premiered on October 26,2014, and ran until November 9,2014.
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In December 2010, Shane Dorian had a terrifying wipeout at Mavericks in a two-wave hold-down that almost killed him.
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Shane Dorian helped develop the final product that is capable of instantly "torpedoing" a trapped-underwater surfer back to the surface when inflated.