Damien Fahrenfort

Damien Fahrenfort, nicknamed Dooma, is a South African professional surfer born in Cape Town on 10 November 1986. He competed on the World Surf League qualifying series tour between 2006 and 2011, and his best result as a top level competitor was third place at the 2011 Copa Quiksilver El Salvador, held at Punta Roca in La Libertad. After stepping back from full-time competition he turned to the surfing business and to surfing journalism, writing an industry insider blog called Doomas Rumors. He later moved to the United States, where he worked in marketing for the Orange County brand Quiksilver, ran the American arm of the Australian surfing magazine Stab and managed the careers of several leading surfers. He is also a co-founder and the marketing director of General Admission, a menswear boutique in Venice Beach, and he has worked as a web content creator and producer.