The founder of Last Wave grew up in SAN Luis obispo, California, in the summer of 1966, when he was 13. His brother and he bought their first surfboard for $35 and spent the next seven years surfing for a living. Their parents allow them to go to the beach every day. When they let them stay at home, they rode clay wheel skateboards and tried their own surfboard designs. They watched all the surf movies that came to town and read every sentence in every surfer magazine they could get their hands on. From 1973 to 1985, he retired from surfing, went to college, became a snowboarder in lake Tahoe, and then worked in Sacramento, California. But he missed the beach, so he took off his three-piece suit and returned to SAN Luis obispo. The founder of Last Wave has been surfing ever since.