REBUILDING BARRY
“MY WHOLE LIFE I’ve had a lot of self-confidence, which I attribute to my dad. I remember going to school carnivals and saying, ‘Do you think I’m going to win, Dad?’ And he’d say, ‘Of course you’re going to win! You’re a Du Bois!’ He taught me that nothing could beat me if I tried.
In 2010, five years after retiring as a builder, developer and designer, I was surfing on the South Coast of New South Wales. I was about 115kg and very strong. Going under a wave, I heard an horrendous
