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- Hometown:
- Charlestown, RI
- Relationship Status:
- In a Relationship
- About Me:
- Every summer my entire life I've been lucky enough to live at the beach in Charlestown, RI. The child of two teachers, I lived a double life growing up. School year life in landlocked Western Massachusetts and summer life in the beautiful Ocean State (I live for those three months out of the year!)! As a teenager I fell in love with my summer job as a surf lifeguard and in love with my first skimboard. Skimming and life saving became my obsessions. It feels good, and feeling good is good enough.
My parents are awesome but they both grew up modest and landlocked. Not being a tradtional sport, it was hard for them to understand how much skimboarding influenced my life and never supported it. I don't blame them but even today they just don't get it or view skimming as a sport. As a teen it was difficult to finance my skim passion. I skimmed mostly on local breaks with old beat up boards and never skimmed competitively. Through my early twenties I was preoccupied with finishing college and almost fell out of skimboarding entirely.
It wasn’t until I finally got the job I always wanted (firefighter-paramedic) when I started skimming again. Once again my passionate obsession for skimboarding took a foothold in my life. I could finace new boards and travel for the first time in my life. Last summer I hit up several skimUSA events, skimming competitively for the first time at the age of 26 (Old School)! I LOVE SKIMBOARDING! It’s the only thing I think about and all I want to do. I thrive to make personal progression and excel at the sport I love. I love to skim new places and meet people that are stoked on skim!
- Favorite Sport:
- Skimboarding
- Heros:
- Christian Hosoi, Dali Lama, Patrick Swayze, Bill Maher
- Favorite Music:
- Hippe music, Rasta, and almost anything else
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Anyways, thanks I've been working really hard on making new pieces of art and also a artist rave exhibit party here in my hometown cause it really sucks here! No fun at all! Hope everything is great on your side of the island lol.
Keiao :)
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