Sitting on his wheelchair on a sandy Cape Town beach, Raemondo Lessing, 16, watches on as fellow surfers ride the same waves he learnt his craft on. Having lost both his legs and arms to meningitis when he was only a few months old, the teenager is now one of South Africa's best para surfers -- and is dreaming of a chance to show his skills at the Paralympics next year. "What I do in the water with balancing, it also helps me to balance on my prosthetic legs," Lessing says. "I used to be scared to fall. But since I discovered surfing it just came easy to me" the 16-year-old adds. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES