Lane Beachley

Uh, look, my earliest memories of surfing actually started on the harbour side at Manly.

So my dad put me on a foamy when I was around three or four years of age and I stood up on it and waited for the ferries to come in to create that boat wake.

We all owned our skill somewhere.

And I just fell in love with what I can only explain it as a sense of freedom.

when I'm on a board or when I'm in the water.

Actually, it's my happy place.

So I don't recall the first wave I caught or the first wave I rode all the way to the beach.

I just know that the feeling that I experienced when I was on a surfboard as a four-year-old is still exactly the same feeling I have on the surfboard in my 50s.

So was your dad a big surfer?

Yes, dad was.

Well, he's an integral part of the surf lifesaving movement in Manly and actually around the world.

He actually travelled around the world as a teenager teaching our lifesaving techniques to Canadians, English people, Americans, Germans.

And my older brother, Jason, is a surfer.

And so I just, you know, as a young girl growing up, wants to be doing what her older brother does.

I do it a whole lot better than he does.

A tough dad, but a loving dad.

There's no handbook or playbook to being a parent.

And if there was, then someone would make a gazillion dollars from it.

But everyone's just navigating their way and working it out.

And we're all products of our environment.