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#Goodwin family surf series#
The second chapter in the Surf Shacks series by Matt Titone illustrates how surfers live both on and offshore.Ī life dominated by the waves and the tide with a cozy place to pause in between.Who are you? Tell us a little about yourselves. Many abodes can fall under the label of surf shack: city apartments, cabins nestled next to national parks, or tiny Hawaiian huts. Surfing communities are overflowing with creativity, innovation, and rich personas. Surf Shacks takes a deeper look at surfers’ homes and artistic habits. Glimpses of record collections, strolls through backyard gardens, or a peek into a painter’s studio provide insight into surfers’ lives.įrom the remote Hawaiian treehouse and converted bus home of the Goodwin family to the Japanese mountain cabin that the founder of Gentemstick, Taro Tamai, calls home, every space has a unique tale. Jamie Smallwood, a sustainable architect, built an off the grid shipping container compound in Byron Bay as a new domicile. The moments that these vibrant personalities spend away from the swell and the froth are both captivating and nuanced. Through anecdotes and photographs, illustrations and conversations, Surf Shacks reveals a more personal side to surfing and its eclectic cast of characters.Aamion Goodwin, re-writing the definition of a North Shore freesurfer. Given Goodwin – tan, golden-tressed, and 3 years old-executes a practiced handclap sync for the camera and quickly moves out of frame. A four-man film crew clad in T-shirts and boardshorts slowly dollies in on Given’s mom, Daize, and baby sister, True, pitched up in the lee of the wheelhouse. Given perches on the lifeboat housing and they instantly form a burnished tableau of surf family serenity. It’s the moment of the long breath, the Big Now. We rock lightly in the small swell echoing off the island. Jess Bianchi, the director, inspects the last take on the monitor. True is bored and is threatening fussiness. The wind’s dropped and she can see the tide’s filled in enough to cushion the shallow reef beneath a little left breaking in the nearby channel. Daize Goodwin, formally Daize Shayne, is a two-time Women’s World Longboard Champ and original Roxy Girl from the early 2000s. These days, however, she finds precious little time to surf, despite consistently traveling to decent log-worthy waves. The incessant demands of raising two young children on a 14-month global road-trip pretty much limit her water time to half-hour therapy sessions wedged between feedings. Jess indicates a wrap and Daize promptly hands True off to husband Aamion who’s up from below decks but somewhat groggy from his post-session nap. I catch up with Daize on the dive step as she’s prepping her grape-colored longboard. “So far, we haven’t had really great surf in all the places we’ve been, so surfing hasn’t really been an issue between Aamion and me,” says Daize. “But on this trip we both want to be in this amazing water and we both don’t want to be on the boat with True crying.
#Goodwin family surf how to#
So that’s been a hurdle to figure out how to meet in the middle. Aamion surfs for the film and True wants me because I’m the one with the boobs.” For Aamion, it’s tough because he’s being pulled in so many directions right now. The Goodwins sleep in shifts these days, especially now that True, age 10 months, is teething and just recovering from the same Peruvian stomach bug, aka “runny bum,” that’s taken down most of the film crew to varying degrees. The stifling nights below decks have been tough on everybody, especially the kids, and both parents are suffering from chronic sleep deprivation. “This trip, while amazing, is a constant challenge,” confides Aamion, as Daize heads off. “My wife is a Ferrari…always doing something, projecting about what needs to be done. Me, I’m more about adapting to the conditions on a day-to-day basis.
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