Instinct Surf

The story of Instinct dates back to 1972 when I was in high school. A photographer, Mike Duff, swam out at Dairy Beach in Durban and captured an image of me surfing.

The local paper the Daily News published my first shot ever taken from the water. At 15 I was stoked!

Surfboards back then had not become branding billboards – generally each board had a single, small logo identifying the manufacturer which in my town were Safari, Holmes and Wetteland.

- Shaun Tomson