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brindley at age 19
I started surfing after I came back from living in belgium at the very impressionable age of 17........
I had bought my first car via my first job at Lamps-R-US, and bought a primer red fiat rodster cheapest coolest thing I could get and immediately attached some surf racks and set out to learn the sport........
why?..........

Flash back a few years.......I was a motocross star in the mini class (age 14) and a strong BMX competitor back in the days when huffy's ruled......if you surfed and rode bikes you were a hodad, or a squid, that could ruin your reputation as a kid.......so I stuck with one
Our family lived in Belgium for three years from a work promotion my Dad had, and all I ever heard was....
you come from California......do you surf? We looked the part...suntanned....blonde hair......
I then realized that surfing is important to everyone who doesn't surf or cannot surf anywhere else in the world? I was lucky to be raised in California and when I get back I shall learn to surf I told myself.........In europe I learned early a weird thing called punk in was getting popular in England......and a dance called the pogo.......

Flash forward coming back to California at age 17, to my old friends whom I rode motocross with I was different........even weird.......I lost my blonde and my tan from the 300 days a year that belgium has overcast............plus I wanted to surf and talk surf and listen to surf stories.............

My first day at Marina High School in Huntington Beach (I came in as a sophmore) I saw the surfer clan, fully sun bleached and tanned and the surfer chicks were absolutley beautiful........
....I immediately began to dress the part of a surfer and washed my hands of my motocycling and bicycling.....

I was all about the surf culture and punk was hip.......I captivated many people from my tales of castles, punk and the pogo..........My french was strong and the women loved it....I could say anything stupid in french and would always gain me favor toward my persistence of the p-tang

got to frag (we'll get to this later)