Eric

im an artist, rockclimber, surfer, snowboarder, wakeboarder, and just an all around thrill seeker. if someone says, "dude you cant do that!!", i say watch this!!! i have been all over and lived in some of the best places this world has to offer. i have been around all sorts of people and enjoy chilling with an assortment of friends. im very open minded and quick to make friends. but i hate people who are full of shit, people who think that they no everything, and shop at pacific sun wear for the latest volcom sweatshirts. there are so many posers out there these days, saying yeah dude i surf, and sit on the beach all day waxing there board, i fucking HATE people like that! or the guy who says,"yeah i used to climb.... until my gym closed." so if thats you and we meet face to face, i ll rip your arms off and beat u with em. the biggest give away to a poser is there shoes. if they are wearing there pac sun spring line with some nike basketball shoes,"POSER"!! sorry but i could go all day. i love going on the search for the ultimate ride, as some of us call it the "stoke". i love rolling to a new beach with a brake that i have never surfed, or heading into the woods to find some boulders that have never been climbed before. i played your team sports, football, baseball, soccer, and none of them made me feel great about myself, even though i excelled at all of them. since i started into alternative sports, u never can know the feeling of paddling on to a wave, getting inside the tube, seeing all this raw power around you and in that perfect moment knowing that you have taken control of something that most of us have no idea how to, or standing on top of loveland pass at six in the morning when its just you and your boys getting ready to drop in on some of the best powder of the day, sun is peaking over the rockies and all you can hear is your board carving into waist deep powder shreading the fuck out of the mountain, or using all of your will power, determination, and srength to climb something so steep and so long that you have to dig down so deep in your soul just to hang on, and when you pull through that last power move and stick the hold, you yell out this huge fuck ya!!!!, and your friends are eighty feet down but right there with you screaming there asses off for you. these are moments that some day when im on my death bed i will look back and can say that i really lived my life the way that i wanted it, with no regrets, no looking back. this is how i live and will always. i couldnt live my life in the nine to five, working in an office, suit and tie. i would end up as just another person floating through there life. we all have it in us to take control of who we are, be who we want to be, and live our lives the way we want, on our own terms, do you have the guts to take a chance? see things that most of us will never see. and when your on your death bed think of these things and say to yourself, did i really live? i hope who ever reads this will take that chance.............