Scooter Newell
Article Category: Boardrider
Boardrider of the Month: Crystal Cooper Interview by Scooter Newell Name: Crystal Cooper Date of Birth: March 17, 1983… St. Patty’s Day! Hometown: Cocoa Beach! Years Surfing: 14 Years Skating: 14 Current Surf Quiver: 9′ Stu Sharpe and a 5’8″ Peli by Bagel Current Skate Setup: Still ridin’ my 10-plus-year-old Fish Longskates! I guess that means I don’t do too much damage on them! Who got you into surfing and where did you first learn how to surf? John McAleenan,... [Read more...]
Scooter Newell
Article Category: Boardrider
Boardrider of the Month: Dylan Durkin Interview by Scooter Newell Dylan Durkin is an excellent example of the amazing boardriding talent found right here in Cocoa Beach. Around the Skatepark, his name is synonymous with style. His effortless approach leaves people wondering how he’s able to make a highly technical trick look as simple as a kickturn. He’s competed as a young teenager all over the state as a sponsored amateur and often did well. Dylan even graced our April 2008 cover blasting... [Read more...]
Tobin Bennison
Article Category: Boardrider
Boardrider of the Month: Greg Meischeid Greg Meischeid celebrated his 50th birthday this past September 4th, but that’s not why he’s here. He’s this month’s “Boardrider of the Month” because of his boundless passion for the ocean and his enviable mastery of virtually every boardsport out there. Born in Melbourne, Greg went to Eau Gallie High and has worked with CSR for 25 years at multiple spots around the globe. Now living cozily in Cocoa Beach in one of the... [Read more...]
Scooter Newell
Article Category: Boardrider
Boardrider of the Month: Jonathan Morefield Interview by Scooter Newell; Photos by David Morefield “Jonathan Morefield… To make it simple, he is the future of skateboarding. I have seen Jonathan grow from the annoying little kid riding around on a scooter to the well-rounded skateboarder he is today.” “Jonathan is the future of skateboarding not because he can jump down the biggest set of stairs or do the craziest trick on a flat ledg, but because when you see him riding his skateboard,... [Read more...]
Bruce Walker & Scooter Newell
Article Category: Boardrider
Boardrider of the Month: Todd Holland Introduction by Bruce Walker; Interview By Scooter Newell Todd Holland is one of just a handful of elite surfers who has placed Cocoa Beach squarely at the center of international surfing attention over the course of both his amateur and professional surfing careers. As an amateur Junior Men’s competitor, Todd won a slew of big contests and titles and benefitted heavily in receiving direction from some of the best coaches in the sport. Coaching icons like... [Read more...]
Scooter Newell
Article Category: Boardrider
Boardrider of the Month: Greg Shaw Interview by Scooter Newell Sometime during the summer of 2000 I met a 10-year-old Greg Shaw. He came to the skate park one day with his dad, and I asked him: “Wanna skate this ramp with us?” “Sure,” he replied, and we quickly became friends, skating together at the park on Merritt Island, hanging out in the shop, and even skating early morning sessions together before normal hours. We pushed each other to progress. I saw a tremendous determination... [Read more...]
Scooter Newell
Article Category: Boardrider
Boardrider of the Month: Bruce Walker Interview by Scooter Newell In 1986, I got a job that would forever change my life. I was hired to work in the warehouse at Ocean Avenue, a worldwide skateboard distributor right next to the legendary Walker Skateboard Factory in downtown Cocoa Beach. I skated to work after school and everyone there skated and or surfed. It was like a secret society, and we all avoided the outside world for our employment and socialization. Best of all the boss, Bruce Walker,... [Read more...]
Dan Reiter
Article Category: Boardrider
Boardrider of the Month: John Hughes Interview by Dan Reiter Chances are, John Hughes is more of a local than you are. If numbers count for anything, he’s been here since 1954. And he’s surfed Cocoa Beach for the better part of 50 years. He is that certain type of man who looks strikingly familiar, though you might be seeing him for the first time. Silver-haired, statuesque, his face perpetually beatific, he carries himself with the grace of a humble wizard, or perhaps a trainer of unicorns.... [Read more...]
Tobin Bennison
Article Category: Boardrider
Boardrider Of The Month: Sharon Wolfe-Cranston By Tobin Bennison I’ve known Sharon Wolfe-Cranston for about four years now, but chiefly as a librarian for the Cocoa Beach Library’s Youth Department. And though I’d always figured that she may have surfed (most people around here do, after all) I’d never have pegged her as a bona fide legend. I discovered her illustrious past last July, after noticing her name attached to the Cocoa Beach Surf Museum’s “Women of... [Read more...]
Barry Dix
Article Category: Boardrider
Boardrider of the Month: Freddie Grosskreutz Interview by Barry Dix In August 2010, local surfing legend and East Coast surfing Hall of Fame inductee Freddie Grosskreutz started feeling weak and losing weight. While visiting his daughter Tamsin, a second-year medical student studying in Kansas City, Freddie shocked her with the change in his appearance. Tamsin ordered a series of tests for him, resulting in a diagnosis of advanced carcinoid liver cancer. Since then, Freddie has had two surgeries... [Read more...]
