This Cape Town teen has no legs and only one arm but that hasn't stopped him becoming a star surfer

It’s another windy day in Cape Town and gusts are whipping up white horses across the expanse of False Bay. But as usual nothing can stop hundreds of surfers taking to the water at Surfer’s Corner in Muizenberg where little kids, teenagers and veterans vie for space on the curling waves. 

One young surfer looks rather different to the others. He has no hands to paddle through the water from shore to backline to catch a wave and no legs to stand on when his board slices through a wave. 

Raemondo Lessing (15) had one of his arms and both his legs amputated when he was a baby, but that hasn’t stopped him from being as enthusiastic about surfing as his able-bodied companions.