Growing Up In a Surfer Family, Wipeouts and All

Over at HEM News and Commentary, Valerie Bonham Moon shared a recent NPR report on the Paskowitz family.

The NPR site states:

Fresh Air from WHYY, May 8, 2008 · Jonathan Paskowitz isn't just any surfer. He's a professional surfer — but even that isn't why his story is unusual.

Paskowitz is one of the nine children born to Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz, a onetime physician who in the 1950s quit his practice, dropped out of the mainstream and raised a family while living a nomadic surfing lifestyle. So Jonathan Paskowitz grew up on the beach, essentially, as part of what has been described as the first family of surfing.

You can read the rest of the story, listen to the interview and link to the movie trailer here.