Who taught you how to surf?

[stoneybaloney]

Family, friend, future pro?

This is who taught me to surf, about 17 years ago. I still remember him sending me down the line for my first time...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igHc6TvaWjA

[aka pumpmaster]

This guy was probably one of the biggest influences on me when I started:

[MATT JOHNSON]

Miki Dora and Greg Noll are the 2 major influences in my surfing

[jay cagney]

i got my hands on a 6'2 shortboard and kooked it at the inlet until where i am now, slightly less of a kook.

[jimmycraxcorn]

[QUOTE=MATT JOHNSON;45961]Miki Dora and Greg Noll are the 2 major influences in my surfingQUOTE]

and this has what to do with the question? I'm pretty sure Greg didn't give you any tips and then shove you into a wave

[ECsponger]

Got in the water by myself one day and never left.

Jimmycraxasscorn... no words for this doucher he is just too funny!

[oipaul]

Originally Posted by jay cagney

i got my hands on a 6'2 shortboard and kooked it at the inlet until where i am now, slightly less of a kook.

what he said, just different inlet...

[wallysurfr]

brother locked my bodyboard in the trunk of his car and gave me is old beat up brown Byrne. Haven't bodyboarded since. Best day ever.

[NYNomad]

The infamous and probably the most hated guy around here - Elliot Zuckerman. But it was a fun lesson and I was out there early may so we didn't get in anybody's way. Heck it was raining that day!

[snobowin]

In response to jimmeycraxcom, Gregg Noll is still alive and kicking. He and his son recently opened a new surf shop in California. Miki Dora passed away in 2002. Two close friends of mine surfed with both men in California and Hawaii. Who says one or both didn't teach Matt to surf?