Profile: The Remarkable Saga of Sebastian Zietz

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Thursday, May 26, 2016

Sebastian Zietz has endured his fair share of ups and downs on the Championship Tour, yet his humble Hawaiian roots prepared him for the roller-coaster ride. As one of nine children, he was barefoot and homeless at 10; a landlocked vagabond at 12; a couch surfer at 14. And that's just the beginning of the saga that shaped surfing's newest star.

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