[nggallery id=98] Full Name: Rodger William Eales Hometown: San Diego, CA Local Surf Spot: Sunset Cliffs Years Surfing: 14 Years Skateboarding: 16 Arbor Preferred Skateboard Quiver: Oso, Hybrid, Carver Other Sponsors: Volcom Clothing, Dakine Accessories, Plus One Surfboards, Bodyglove Wetsuits, Julie Designs and FCS Fins FACEBOOK PAGE WEBSITE Please describe your style of surfing: Having to describe my surfing goes against my number one rule in surfing, which is to carry humility in all facets of the sport. I will say that I have always tried to be versatile and charge big waves while maintaining style and grace with new school flare in your everyday conditions. Where is your favorite place to surf? My favorite place to surf is a right hand underwater point that is located directly below my house in San Diego. It offers up so many different looks and sections. When this wave is on, it’s comparable to a long version of V-land in Hawaii. Do you snowboard? Yes. The Arbor collection is fabulous. I ride my Dad’s Abacus, the Westmark and occasionally my brother’s Del Ray. All these boards work well and are made specific for the terrain or style of riding taking place that day. If you like pow, you must try an Abacus. They are like spreading butter on toast! If you could pick four people to go surf with, who would they be and where would you go? Ryan Kelly childhood friend and great surfer, his attitude is contagious in the water. Brother Rodney, family is a huge part of life and he is a radical dude. Kelly Slater for his uncanny ability and he has always been my favorite surfer. Lastly would be a random grom who loves to surf, age 13 and would freak out when they saw Slater hanging out.  We would go to Africa and surf some secret spot perfect A-frame peaks. It would barrel off the drop and then stretch into a long wall. What is the worst lie you ever told your mom? This is tough, I raged as a kid and told a number of lies (don’t recommend it). She always said the worst was when she would ask what time I would be home and I would give a reasonable time like 1:30 a.m. and then disappear for two or three days. It drove her nuts not knowing where I was. Kids, just tell them the truth it’s so much easier. What is the worst lie she ever told you? It was that she got a tattoo of a mouse on her lower hip. I said, “Ya right mom.” She went to show it to all my sisters and brother watching attentively and she slightly pulls the belt line of her pants away from her hip and says, “Oh, my pussy must have eaten it!” Mac or PC? Mac, I’ll use them both. All I can really do on computers is type papers for school, send e-mails and check buoys. I like to think I can get all geeky on my Mac and do really cool stuff but fact is everybody can. It’s the material that is put into the computer that makes the difference in projects. Would you rather be smart and ugly or dumb and beautiful? I would rather be smart and ugly. Smart people land good jobs, plenty of gold diggers looking for a rich dude. Plus, life is more fun when you understand concepts and theories. I love to conceive my own little theories on life and I’m not wicked smart. If I was I could really enjoy just sitting around thinking. What is your worst habit? I smell everything. Describe your perfect day of skateboarding: Perfect day skateboarding takes place in my back yard. Taking the Carver drop through trucks skate down some hills in Point Loma having a buddy in a car at the bottom to give me rides back up. After couple good runs, driving to the alleys and hitting up some childhood banks. The alley banks in Point Loma are ridiculous for pretending your surfing. Pull out the Oso and surf skate the banks just like I would surf a wave. Then pulling out the Hybrid and pushing into OB to meet the boys at the farmers market eat the free tasters and scope the talent.

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