The 27-year-old grew up in Falcon and often surfed breaks at Gearies and Melros with his older brothers Ross and Ian from the age of 11.

He reached junior state-level competition and while he does not enter contests anymore he continues to surf because it is the “best sport in the world”.

Macpherson, who now lives in Coolup, is so passionate about the sport he is working full-time on creating a documentary on the history of Mandurah surfing.

The purpose of the film is to get everybody surfing again.

“Many Mandurah surfers get to the ripe young age of 17 and 18 and become bored with surfing around Mandurah and don’t have the money to chase competitive dreams,” he said.

“I want to help rekindle the love they had for the ocean when they were younger.”

Macpherson started working on the film last July and already has more than 100 hours of surfing footage of 70 local families dating back to the late 60s.

“Over the years Mandurah has produced so many good surfers for a place of a reasonably small population and with average wave quality.”

He credited this success to a strong board riders club and being in close proximity to quality waves in Margaret River.

Chris Fulston was one of the pioneers of competitive surfing on the world professional circuit when it started in the late 1970s.

Jason Duffy is the most successful local to date - winning three open men’s state titles and Macpherson’s brother Ian won the senior men’s state title last year after making many open men’s state titles in the late 1990s.

Wade Lamond, Tom Tomlins, Keith LeBreton, Mick Marlin, Josh Harrington, Corey and Brendon Crane, Jamie and Craig Melbourne, Keith Rose, Nick Katona, Rohan Woznik, Daniel Corbishly, Jerome Forrest and Tod Quartermaine have all represented WA at National titles surfing contests - and each will feature in Macpherson’s film.

“Then there are many other surfers that just enjoy surfing around Mandurah with friends, going on the odd trip down the coast to Margaret River or up north once a year,” he said.