Rod Sumpter has won multiple national and international surfing championships, placed top ten in the World Surfing Championships, acted as president of the English Surfing Federation, held a starring role in the U.S. surfing film The Endless Summer, and captured more surfing titles in his thirty years of worldwide competition than most surfers in the world alive today. He is the author of100 Best Surf Spots in the World (Insiders' Guides).