Phil Rajzman

Phil Rajzman is a Brazilian professional surfer from Rio de Janeiro who has twice won the world longboard championship. Born Philip Wollens Rajzman on 27 June 1982, he learned to surf from Rico de Souza, one of the pioneers of Brazilian surfing, and began catching waves at the age of six. He was regarded as a prodigy and has appeared on podiums since 1994, when he first entered competitions. At fifteen he became widely known for his performances on giant waves in Hawaii, and he was invited to join the first Brazilian tow-in team, in which a surfer is pulled onto very large waves by a jet-ski. In May 2007, at the world finals in France, he won what was then the Association of Surfing Professionals World Longboard Tour Championship, and he took a second World Surf League world longboard title in 2016 at a competition in China. He also appeared in the surf documentary Surf Adventures in 2002 and its 2008 sequel, riding both short and long boards. He is the son of volleyball player Bernard Rajzman and figure skater Michele Wollens.