Hailing from San Diego, CA, Taylor grew up with a passion for riding any type of surf craft that he could get his hands on. At the age of 13 he fell in love with Longboarding and since then he has become one of the most successful and dominant competitive Longboarders in the World today. Over the course of his career, and with many more years to go, he has racked up 3 WSL World Longboard Titles, 6 North American National Titles, 3 Australasian National Titles and over 50 professional career victories along the way.

When he’s not chasing swells and contests all over the globe, Taylor spends his downtime with his wife Nava and son & daughter splitting their time between the beaches of San Diego, CA and the Far North Coast of NSW, Australia.

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LUCY SMALL from Western Australia is driven by a strong internal energy and passion for surfing, travel and writing. She’s experienced the world and is not afraid to cross borders, physically and metaphorically.
 As a writer, she’s gone through the paces as an intern, sub-editor, editor and contributing journalist where she’s confronted, argued and supported many high-level issues to affect change, especially for women, refugees, and equality. She has a fierce determination to undo the injustices in the world or at least assist with setting them in motion for repair and an emotional sensitivity that allows her in, to understand.
 As she continues her intrepid adventures, we are inspired more than ever by her, her discoveries and her writing. She now works as a freelance writer and can be contacted through The Mermaid Society.
 You can follow Lucy’s adventures on her own blog, SALTWATER PILGRIM and follow her on Instagram @saltwaterpilgrim

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Lets face it we have all had some horrible moments in the surf. It may have been paddling out to the lineup only to find it was soo much bigger than you are comfortable with. Maybe it was the guy in the grey suit that cruised past you flashing several rows of sharp teeth. Or maybe it was very accidentally dropping in on the biggest meanest local ever to grace a longboard. Whether it was one of these moments or one where that over head deep deep tube was draining over an exposed rock shelf we have all have tales to tell.

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Born into a surfing family twins Dan and Mick grew up surfing longboards between Scarborough and Yallingup with Dan being the state open champion and a regular in the WA State team to the Australian Titles for many years. He spent several years living the dream by working in the Telo Islands as a surf guide. Both Dan and Mick competed sporadically in ASP/WSL pro longboard events over the years but both twins were drawn to the thrill of Big Wave surfing.
 In recent years, Mick has emerged as one of Australia’s eminent big wave riders. Mick’s versatility has won him both XXL wave awards and pro longboard contests. In the past two years, Mick has won and placed second in the Surfing Life Big Wave Awards, and has been a finalist in the International WSL Big Wave Awards.

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Surfer, Husband, Collector, Father, Archivist, Grandfather, Traveller, Historian, Writer, Photographer, Surf Reporter, Consultant, Teacher, Jan Juc Resident, Sexagenarian, Dog Lover, Piscean, Vegaquarian, Music Man, President, Life Member, Competitor, Lifestyle & Fitness Enthusiast. Is how Noel “The Wife” describes this weeks guest, Bob Smith. 
He has won 23 Victorian titles and two Australian Masters Games titles, as well as two Surfing Australia Hall of Fame awards and multiple titles for the Torquay Boardriders and Surfcoast Longboarders. He was awarded life membership to Surfing Victoria in 2014.

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Born & bred on the doorstep of Noosa National Park. When he was 10 he was competing in local junior boardriders events. In his early teens he discovered longboarding and his future was mapped out. 
 Josh's focus was always on winning events and it wasn't long before he was living out his dream. Josh began competing professionally at a young age of 15. By 2006, Josh had cemented his dominance in the world stage of competitive longboarding by winning the ASP World Longboard Title. He has amassed 51 career titles including 6 Australian Open Longboard Titles.
 After achieving all the success, he has decided to slow down his competitive goals over the past 4 years, seeking only to compete in specialty events while exploring all the possibilities of making the boards under his feet work better in all kinds of conditions. This passion has translated into his surfboard label Creative Army Surfboards by Josh Constable.

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Jodie Barsby started surfing when she was about 11-12, joining the local Board Riders club, Crescent Head Board riders, competing against mostly guys on her dad’s old Mal. When she was 13, her parents, Emma and Graham, bought her a brand new Bob Kennerson Longboard and she was hooked. 

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With a string of Indigenous surf titles under his belt and a regular on the Australiaan ASP/WSL LQS, Tom is comfortable surfing and competing in 1 ft ankle biters to giant Hawaiian size power waves. His father (Tom Avery) is a renowned Indigenous artist and surfer. His mother (Jennifer Avery) a talented singer/guitarist and full blood Maori from the Taranaki Province of New Zealand. It has led Tom Jnr to follow a pathway of surfing and music, performing as Blakboi. Tom is from the Gomeroi peoples of central NSW now living on the Bundjalung Nation around the Byron Bay / Lismore area. 

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Paul ”Whitey” White the head of the driving force at CWater, who have taken over running at the Agnes Water Longboard Classic Funds raised are structured to support youth development programs. Find out from Whitey what it is about this contest that attracts longboarders from all around Australia and why some of them never leave.

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Peter White head shaper and Classic Malibu business owner shaped his first surfboard in 1965 and has been shaping boards continuously for over 55 years. Peter is a wealth of experience and knowledge, travelling the world sharing his craft throughout England, Spain, Japan, Taiwan and now China, always searching for new innovations in surfboard design. From the latest templates to creative artwork “style is everything” when it comes to the board. He custom shapes everything from high performance shortboards to 10ft old school logs 

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