Lane Beachley

So then it became like a to-do list.

Tick, got it, tick, got it, tick, got it.

And all the fun came out of it.

The fun came out of the surfing?

The fun came out of the competitiveness.

The fun came out of the... It never came out of the surfing, but it came out of the joy of winning.

It became a must-do as opposed to I get to...

So when I reflect on my world title campaigns, I only remember the world titles based on how I celebrated them.

It's the parties that anchored the memory.

And I didn't celebrate my second world title.

So I actually don't recall winning it.

And the only memory that I have of it is based on video vision that I can see.

Other than that, I have no memory of it, other than the fact it was at Sunset Beach.

In 2003, which was the same year I won my sixth consecutive world title, halfway through that year, our lives were shattered when Christina succumbed to breast cancer.

And it was a period where actually we thought she had, you know, she fought it and went into remission and then unfortunately lost her battle.

And it was deeply distressing.

And at the time, her daughter or my stepsister or hang on, what do I call her?

Actually, what do I call Catherine?

My family dynamic is quite complicated because my brother was born to Valerie and Valerie is the woman that adopted me who then died when I was seven.

Then my dad remarried to Christina and then they had another child called Catherine who's 18 years my junior.