The new club helping surfers with disabilities take on the swell

Being blind, using a wheelchair, or living with an amputation is no obstacle for surfers at Sydney Adaptive Boardriders Club.

In just a few months the number of members who drop in on mechanically created waves at Sydney's Urbansurf complex has swelled from four to 120.

"You'll probably see the difference in people's faces when they come out of the water, and there's a bit of a transition," club president Chris Astill said.

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"It's like, oh, back to the wheelchair, or back to the crutches, or back to what it is.

"But out there, all of that falls away and it's just you and the waves and the movement."

Six-time adaptive surfing world champion Mark 'Mono' Stewart lost his leg to cancer 50 years ago. 

"My nickname was peg, obviously, but in Byron Bay, there was already a peg, so they had to come up with a new nickname. So yeah mono," he said.

"It's a real equaliser in the ocean, you know, people don't even realise you got one leg when you're out there.

"It takes away that life story on the beach... in the water, it doesn't happen and that's why I'm such an advocate to get people into the surf."

A Current Affair was invited along as the club got behind SurFebruary, to raise funds for Sydney cancer hospital Chris O'Brien Lifehouse

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