And how many times he’s knocked himself out and how many times we’ve had bloodbaths,” he said. “I show them the scars on his arms from biting himself. He points to his own son, who stands 6-foot-3 and weighs about 250 pounds. Paskowitz has heard over and over from parents who don’t think he can handle their children. Seth McElroy, Isaiah’s cousin, has been volunteering since the group started. “Getting to see the smile on these kids’ faces and connect with them, it’s special,” he said. None of it would happen without the volunteers, some of whom show up to help at every camp, Paskowitz said.
“We never wanted a penny for this,” he said. Surfers Healing makes several stops a year throughout the country, recently returning from the East Coast and after the Dana Point event, they head to Hawaii. Since its founding, hundreds of thousands of kids with autism have surfed with the nonprofit. He and Danielle formed Surfers Healing 20 years ago, and vowed to never charge the families who participate each year. “They were doing something just fun and rad. That moment seemed like it lasted a lifetime, and they were happy riding these waves,” he said. “I’d pull myself together and we’d ride waves. Paskowitz was overcome with what he felt from the kids and the stresses of their families, and would have to take breaks, sitting by himself out in the water so he could cry. He instantly saw a difference. Then a friend asked if Paskowitz could take his autistic son out on the water - then another pleaded. “Somehow, they knew exactly how much was in our saving’s account and it wiped us dry,” he said.īut he learned that water helped soothe his son, Isaiah. There were few autism resources available at the time, and the family tried every “therapy” they could find - including one that put kids with autism in the water with dolphins in Key Largo, he said. My dad was an icon of surfing - is it going to put a black mark, a smudge on my dad’s history?”
He worried about how having a child who was different would be perceived by those around him. “I worried it would embarrass my family. “I wanted so badly for him to be who I was.” Through anecdotes and photographs, illustrations and conversations, Surf Shacks reveals a more personal side to surfing and its eclectic cast of characters.“It took me a while,” said Paskowitz, who now lives in San Juan Capistrano.
The moments that these vibrant personalities spend away from the swell and the froth are both captivating and nuanced. Jamie Smallwood, a sustainable architect, built an off the grid shipping container compound in Byron Bay as a new domicile. Glimpses of record collections, strolls through backyard gardens, or a peek into a painter’s studio provide insight into surfers’ lives.įrom the remote Hawaiian treehouse and converted bus home of the Goodwin family to the Japanese mountain cabin that the founder of Gentemstick, Taro Tamai, calls home, every space has a unique tale. Surf Shacks takes a deeper look at surfers’ homes and artistic habits. Surfing communities are overflowing with creativity, innovation, and rich personas. Many abodes can fall under the label of surf shack: city apartments, cabins nestled next to national parks, or tiny Hawaiian huts.
Goodwin family surf series#
The second chapter in the Surf Shacks series by Matt Titone illustrates how surfers live both on and offshore. Their life is dominated by the waves and the tide with a cozy place to pause in between. In the Surf Shacks books, we can see the way of life and the interiors of the houses of surfers from the four corners of the world. Gestalten books have long been a great inspiration for us.
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