Mitch Yost

Mitch Yost is the patriarch of the Yost family. His wife is Cissy, and their son is Butchie. Mitch and Cissy also have a grandson, Shaun. 
Mitch is a former surfing star, who was forced to leave the sport after injuring his knee. He's opened a boardwalk surf shop to stay in touch with surfing, although he's haunted by feelings of failure.
A Slate article described Mitch as "a 'soul surfer', a term coined in the '70s to denote a surfer scornful of the commercialization of surfing. A soul surfer would ride a board that had no brand labels on it, and wear a sticker-free wetsuit, as Yost does." "What John From Cincinnati gets right about surfing", Thad Ziolkowski, Slate. June 8, 2007.
In the first episode, Mitch discovers that he occasionally levitates, hovering a few inches off the ground.
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