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Australian pro surfer and surf businessman from Sydney's Bondi Beach; world-ranked #16 in 1977, and the managing director for Quiksilver International surfwear from 1979 to 2008. "He has that dark-eyed sinister air about him that appeals to women and makes men wonder," surf journalist Phil Jarratt said of Raymond in 1977. "He would have made a good con man, hustler or gigolo."

Raymond was born (1954) in Wauchope, New South Wales, moved with his family to Sydney at age four, and began surfing at 10, the same year his father died. He lied about his age and became a fireman at 17, then resigned three years later to join the fledgling pro surfing tour. Raymond wasn't an especially good competitor, but put in first-class performances each winter on the North Shore of Oahu, where he earned a reputation as a brave and sometimes reckless big-wave rider. "I didn't think I had a death wish," Raymond later said, "but everyone around me thought I did."

, Raymond was hired as the stunt surfer for the climactic wipeout sequence, earning $500 for launching himself into a half-dozen thumping wipeouts at triple-overhead Sunset Beach. Raymond also starred in 

 (1982), and a few other period surf movies.

Raymond left the tour at age 25 to work with Quiksilver, but continued pushing the limits. In one of the company's early full-page color ads, he is slouched bare-chested against the hood of a car, with the tag line reading, "If You Can't Rock and Roll, Don't Fuckin' Come." He helped Quiksilver with licensing agreements around the world, launched the Quiksilver Pro at Grajagan in 1995, as well as the Crossing, produced videos, negotiated Quiksilver's contracts with world champions Kelly Slater, Tom Carroll, and Lisa Andersen, and was identified in a 1997 

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In 1992 and 1994, Raymond, moonlighting, coached that Australian National Team to victory in the amateur World Surfing Championships. He retired from Quiksilver in 2008.

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