Dylan Longbottom is not who he seems. Okay, he is, and he isn’t. He seems like a really nice guy; a family man committed to his trade and his business who makes sure everyone gets a fair shake in anything where he’s involved. Dylan is definitely all that. What he doesn’t seem like is a full-on outlier — someone with as wild and original a streak as anybody in surfing, which, let’s face it, is full of some pretty wild specimens.
I first began realising Dyl had this streak when he started trying to pull barrel-roll airs on a twin-fin — with straps. This would been sometime around the turn of the 21st century. Dylan was a young South Coast up-and-comer whose streak was already leading him into some tricky…
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