◙ Dada Figueiredo ◙ 91 ◙ by joaoarcruz ◙

In the second half of the eighties and beginning of the nineties Dada Figueiredo was the best surfer in Brazil. Because of his unorthodox behave in public and innovative surfing in the water, he was constantly under scored. When he entered in some international events, like the Gotcha Pro in Hawaii which he finished 5th place, he would impress everyone with his speed and radical turns. He used to shape his own boards, some of them with crazy designs like stinger-wing very wide swallow tail. If you see this videos and compare to other surfers at the time, you can easily notice that he was way ahead of his time.