FREDERICK ROUX - IVORY COAST - IVORIAN SURF TEAM
d.o.b./ date de naissance: 16/05/76
Resides / vit à: Ivory Coast
Stance: Goofy Foot
years surfing: 18 years
Pro free surfer since 2004
Origin: Côte d'Ivoire ( father half french half ivorian and mother from Reunion Island, I have learnt on the famous left of ST Leu wich is my second home) live in Abidjan with my family ( wife and 2 children a boy of 3 years old and a girl of 5 months).
Career highlight: 1st to represent west africa country at the World Surfing Games at Huntington beach California in october 2006
Main media exposure for Côte d'Ivoire in surf magazine ( june 07 surf session 8 pages, egypt july 2005 in trip surf, Côte d'Ivoire in Japan surf mag 2007, Tresetenta magazine june 07 and many others in Australia with a subject on west africa with Stuart Butler; I have worked with Laurent Masurel famous french aquatic photographer and we are still in touch.
Surf trip: France, Portugal, Senegal, Reunion Island, Benin, Togo, Ghana, USA California, Egypt, Bali.
Sponsors: CoolShoe, SOTICI, Omkara ( www.omkarasurf.com), abidjan.net
