Since I started snowboarding, it was always very deeply tied to surfing and skating. Even though I’ve always been merely average at all three, I’ve has this fascination with the crossover – surfing a big north swell at Holyoke in the morning and running up to the Poconos for the twilight session, hiking a hit in Northern California and then checking the jetty at Humboldt before dark, riding at Whistler one day and then making the trek out to Vancouver Island to surf the next. I love it.
Red Bull Switchboard 2017: Asbury Park, NJ from Foreword Films on Vimeo.
Yep, the surf was ridiculously flat last Saturday when we all met on the beach (23 degrees – nice touch, New Jersey) so we had a few hearty souls jump in the drink for effect. My bud, Dave Werner is a very good sport.
Photo Kyle Arcomano/Red Bull
We skated the bowl and then headed up to Mountain Creek, where I learned to ride over two decades ago. I helped direct the content with photographer Kyle Arcomano and Foreword Films.
While this was based at the college demographic in California for a few years, in New Jersey it was everyone from awesome Dads with kids to pro surfers. Every got in some laps, a few surf turns and messed around in the park before all the high fives and hot waffles at the base. Great time, great people.
And they used this old man’s blunt stall as the feature image at RedBulll.com with my story, which is hysterical.
Check my stories at Eastern Surf Magazine.
Photo Kyle Arcomano/Red Bull
All photos Kyle Arcomano/Red Bull
