Tom Doidge-Harrison
Surfing Ambassador
Hometown
Many
Resides
Co. Clare, Ireland

As a skinny eleven-year-old shivering on a Cornish beach, Tom likely didn’t foresee a future that would lead him into some of Northern Europe’s heaviest surf. He eventually settled on the western shores of Ireland, where he shares a small cottage with his family, charges barrels and shapes custom sleds for County Clare’s magical string of coldwater slabs.
Career Highlights
- Became a father in 2011
- Managed to keep surfing while juggling fatherhood (2012-2013)
- First real surfboard, WA, 1996
- First Irish surf trip in 1999 with sister, Jo
- First proper tube at D-bah New South Wales, 2000
- First tropical reef rash, Uluwatu, 2000
- First snapped board, Uluwatu, 2000
- First taste of big waves, Punta Lobos, Chile, 2004
- Drop into Aileen's for the first time, 2006
- Big Aileen's barrel, 2007
- Two wave hold down, 2008
- Two wave hold down with broken rib, 2010
- 10 consecutive duckdives through the set of death at Aileen's, 2010