CHRISTIAN WACH
Age: 19
Hometown: San Clemente
Homebreak: Trestles
Sponsors: Gotcha Clothing, Ocean Minded Footwear, Vonzipper Sunglasses, Aviso Surfboards, City Fog Surfboards, Herbie Fletcher Surfboards, Astrodeck, Stickybumps, O’fish’l Fins
Travels: Norway, Russia, Denmark, Morocco, Faroe Islands, Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, France, Spain, Mexico, Hawaii
Competitive Results:
3-Time Consequtive Noosa Pro Noseriding Division champion
3-Time NSSA National Champion
3-Time member of the USA Surf Team 05,06,07
3-Time NSSA State Champion
Having scored the covers of both Drift magazine (UK) and Australian Longboarding magazine, in addition to a full page in Surfer magazine in the same month, Christian is having a breakout 20-year in the national and international surf media. At just 19 years of age, Christian has an impressive résumé, having won first place in the respected Noosa Noseriding Festival in 2009, 2008 and 2007. In 2007 and 2006 he was voted the #2 & #1 respectively, in Surfer Magazine’s Hot 100 as a longboarder. Although an acclaimed longboarder, he was also featured in Surfer Magazin’es Hot 100 amoungst a roster of shortboarders this year. Christian is an especially gifted surfer, but he is also a talented musician, writer and artist. He spends his time out of the water writing songs, making short-films, doing freelance design, painting and skateboarding.
Source: Gotcha Clothing
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