FROM HUMBLE BEGINNINGS

LATE 1970’S – SOMEWHERE IN CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

THE SURFER
A young boy with long blond hair is given his first single fin surfboard. It’s a bit of a dog, but he patches it up and with the help and encouragement of family and friends he follows in the footsteps of his surfing heroes. One obsession begins…

LATE 1970’S – SOMEWHERE IN SHEFFIELD, ENGLAND

THE SKATER BOY
A young boy with dark brown curly hair “borrows” his sisters roller-skate, nails it to a short plank of wood and rides it for the first time down one of many steep hills. Another obsession begins…

THE BIT IN THE MIDDLE

Both boardriders travelled, settled, had families and careers.
The Cape Town boy for political reasons left SA and settled in a country full of dams. The steel city boy swapped his skateboard for a surfboard and headed to a bigger city to follow a career (and a girl). Their trips to the surf were few and far between. The winters were long, cold and depressing. Their feet began to itch…

YEAR 2000 – SOMEWHERE IN CANARY ISLANDS

THE SURFER AND THE FORMER SKATER
Two unknown surfers sit in the empty line-up both with a smug grin on their faces. Both are surfed out and the sun is setting in the distance casting a red glow on the cliffs that dominate the skyline. In the lull before the set the conversation captures the moment perfectly: "Life just doesn’t get any better than this does it?", "Nah, I'd trade the tube for a barrel anyday".

The two surfers develop a friendship and share stories of the places they have visited, the waves and cultures they have experienced. This fuelled their addiction to travel more …

From their obsession to ride boards, travel and experience new cultures Zoco Boardriding was born. Nowadays they get just as much stoke from organising other peoples boardriding adventures...

Still travelling, still surfing, still stoked...