Taz Knight

Taz Knight, whose full name is Tasman Knight, is a British professional surfer born in 1996 at Townsville, Queensland, during a family sailing passage from New Zealand towards Indonesia, and named after the explorer Abel Tasman. Raised in North Devon close to Croyde, he won numerous UK junior titles between 2006 and 2014, topped the UK Pro Surf Association under-18 rankings in 2013 and represented Team GB at three ISA world junior championships, serving as team captain in Ecuador in 2014. In 2015 he surfed big wave spots in California and Mexico, he supported Andrew Cotton's offshore reef project off Ireland in 2016, and he returned to big wave surfing in 2019 after an injury. He holds a first class physics degree from Bristol.