Generations

[nasty]

When you first started surfing? Did a father, mother, family member, or friend take you your first time? If yours is a family connection, how many generations of surfer do you make up?

My father grew up surfing on the east coast of Florida and I got my start in the surfing hotspot... The Gulf of Mexico. Making me a second generation surfier.

[lappis89]

i could be wrong . . . but i think unless you are native Hawaiian you probably can't be more than two or three generations deep. And to be a third generation surfer you have to pretty young.

As for me, second generation, father grew up in Santa Cruz, mommy had me, moved north, and i took up surfing here.

[riverjetty]

My grandpa used to tell me about surfing long beach before the breakwater was built. He told me that was when "real" men surfed, draggin 120 pounds of hardwood down to the beach and paddling for miles to catch the cloudbreaks. He let me know in no uncertain terms we weren't surfers, just faggot pansies prancing around with our "sticks" on display like a bunch of neon peacocks. He came to see me surf at the huntington pier once, and I swore I saw him spit at me when he thought my back was turned.

I'm pretty sure I made my family skip a generation, so one.

[eastside]

my dad bought me my first ongboar for x-mas when i was eleven. before then i had boogiebaorded (i know, sorry), for years at my local shore break and makapuu. I got an 8' board and went out to a local reef and was hooked. started shortboaridng at about 13 and have been at it for the past 8 years. dad was a 70's revolution surfer and i still bust out his old single fin shortboard for the big days. surfings ever changing but still produces the same stoke.

[Qurph]

5th cousins to richard nixon on my mom's side and my dad's dad was a nazi photog - so i'm the 1st surfer.

[mavericksman]

doods everyones mother is ocean remember we all crawled out of it and then stepped back in to get some bombs.

[Wilbur Kookmeyer]

My father was only concerned with how I was going to pay him back for my boards. Which I never did.

My mother did not support it.

Neither did.

When BC Surf and Sport wanted me to join their Ameteur Team, I got the thumbs down.

Oh..but it was okay for me to drop out of school and enlist in the Army.

many years later dear mom says to me.."You know, I really should have given you more support in your surfing when you were younger."

Thanks mom.

[Ceedog]

The first, and hopefully not the last.

[Betty]

Second generation, and steadily forcing my children into the third.

[Stiffler]

1st

[Temperance]

First. 1999. If I hadn't lived at the beach for awhile, my flat learning curve would have gotten me closer to nowhere than I am now.

[wanty]

The first. And i aint having any damn chitlins so i'm the alpha and the omega, the first and the last.

[Spanky]

I got roots going back past the resurrection to the begining of it all.

I don't push surfing on the kids. They've got no choice though. The ocean will call them.

[intrepid]

I'm the first generation to surf. I am the only person in my family who surfs. No one else is interested.

[brobra]

first. Although my dad tried it when he was younger, all he talked about was how heavy the board was. I think technology has made it easier for people in cold water areas. My brother is talking about getting into surfing. I know I will teach my kids to surf.