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Overview

  • 25 references 22 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning Italian, Spanish
  • 45, Male
  • Member since 2006
  • Invention, CAD, design
  • Computer Engineering from UCSC, surf instructor, lifeguard.
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About Me

I'm on a mission to create new surfing products and opportunities. In recent years I've been focusing on CAD in order to make airfoil-based surfboard fins that act like wings. I make them with a 3D printer, it's very fun. Being 3D printable, this innovation is going to be a golden goose for people in 3rd world surf areas. Selling one set of fins could be worth 10x a daily wage in their hands.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I'm on here in order to connect with more people. These days I value my free time for working on my projects, but I still like to host cool people from time to time.
We live in an age where humanity is on track towards figuring out how to help each other find our soul purpose and act on it.
Before most of us can do that, we need to sort out how to alleviate the pressures of finances, food and home.

Interests

I'm a veteran lifeguard, been surfing 30 years now! I've got a computer engineering degree and thanks to a local maker space, a great place to tinker on things and be around inventive projects. I enjoy reading, learning, and pushing the limits of what's possible. I want to help people wake up, find more happiness, and live with more vitality and purpose. My interests revolve around these goals.

  • education
  • traveling
  • music
  • camping
  • surfing
  • teaching
  • innovation
  • entrepeneurship
  • invention

Music, Movies, and Books

Fingerprints/Magicians of the Gods
The 4th Phase of Water
Cosmos and Psyche
Whatever Happened to Sherlock Holmes?
Women of the Way
The Sages Speak on Immortality
Cultural Amnesia
Colossus, Pain, Tropic of Cancer/Capricorn

MUSIC:
https://bit.ly/delamoon #neurofunk #tek #fullon #dnb
Megadeth
bit.ly/waveTwisters
Mozart
bit.ly/gamelatron
Rachmaninoff
Tom Waits, Nirvana, Primus, Intl. Submarine Band
Spandex tiger
"Hot Burrito #1"
QOTSA & Kyuss
more!!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

24hr Ocean/Cliff rescue team
Taught a lot of people how to surf (it’s hard work!)
Helped create a reading tool: beelinereader.com
Helped create t9space.com - a website that empowered people to use the internet from a flip phone like they had a desktop computer! We were popular all over.

Teach, Learn, Share

Share - ever meet a future thinker? Enjoy pondering radical astro physics of the electric universe? Wondering how to see big upgrades happen with our communities and economies? I do too.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I have a very positive presence, some great stories and a mellow routine.

Countries I’ve Visited

Ecuador, El Salvador, Indonesia, Italy, Mexico, Nicaragua, Portugal

Countries I’ve Lived In

Indonesia, Italy, Nicaragua, United States

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