✦Learned how to surf and skate from his father's best friend Alex Conell when he was little.
✦Lost his front teeth at age 17 when he knocked on the reef during Pipeline competition.
✦Met wife Kim, a student of Math and Fine Art, while studying at University of California.
✦His first son Moe was born in 2004.
✦Appreciates bootlegs, saying a big part of his success is because of his friends recorded the bootlegs of his tracks and distributed them at surf competitions.