3 Time Bodysurfing World Champ - Makena Magro Interview
Channel: Slyde Handboards
Date: 04/12/2017

Speaker 1: funny, then how old were the people that you were going against?
Speaker 2: for the limit for the women division roll, at the world contest and ocean side, I think we are only four divisions now. It’s the 12, 17 and 29, 30 and 35. And then, I think like 36, 36+ or like 40+. So there’s a big range, the older women are really tough to complete with. And I feel like the older you get, the better you get. So, that’s another, a lot of talented women out there but we could definitely use a lot more.
Speaker 1: yeah. so you were only a little door, how old are you when you started competing in the Oceanside completion?
Speaker 2: I was some freshman high school, so what is that? Like 13 or 14, yeah, I was 14 years old.
Speaker 1: so, I think, let’s just start with what get you into body surfing, from the beginning? Was there anyone that like got you, was it your family?
Speaker 2: well, the ocean has always been a big part of my life but growing up, did junior life guards with the state California and Carlsbad. So I did that for eight years before I came safe lifeguard.
Speaker 1: there’s a lot of body surfers that are life guards?
Speaker 2: yeah. it’s a fun thing to do like on your break if you don’t have a cord or surfs good. You just go out and body surf, it’s pretty simple and fun.
Speaker 1: Did you parent kind of push you into ding junior life guard or did you want to just do it?
Speaker 2: it was definitely something we were forced to do but we grew to love it because that’s when I lived my summers more of us doing junior lifeguards but my dad and his siblings were lifeguards send his main thing, no matter what sport we did? We have to learn how to swim. Yeah. we are surrounded by so much water. But I love it, you know, it gave me a career playing water polo, lifeguarding, but body surfing, back to body surfing, it started as a junior lifeguard, we would, so in the morning, we would get vitamins lectures and free surf no you get thirty twenty minutes doing whatever you want? So, I would either surf or like a swim one I went to grab boogie board, not saying anything in skateboarders but my instructor something got boy work. He is like what are you going? And am like ho, I’m going to boogie boy, he’s like, no. you either going to surf or body circuit but I was like, I don’t know body circuit, I was probably like 8 or 9 years old. Maybe, 10. He’s like, come on, I will teach you, his name is James Phinney.


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