His name is befitting of a Saturday morning cartoon superhero. But a wrinkle in the time-space continuum appears once you realize he’s owned his name long before his hero deeds were done. Rodney Roller lost his leg three decades ago, abruptly ending his love affair with surfing. When he picked it back up he decided to get others into the sport and has taught hundreds of amputees to surf. In the process, he pushed adaptive surfing onto the radar screens of several global NGOs. In 2015 the ISA held the first World Adaptive Surfing Championships. What’s your relationship with surfing?I started in 1977 in Southern California until I lost my leg in 1990 in an industrial accident. Then I stopped surfing until 1998 when I moved to Pismo Beach, California.  And there you discovered a second surfing life?Yes. There, I learned to surf as an amputee surfer. I knew it … Continue reading Locals Only: BSR’s Rodney Roller champions adaptive surfing