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Upon graduation from Wilson High School in Long Beach, California, Tim ventured off to St. Thomas where he spent a year crewing on charter sailing boats cruising throughout the Caribbean Sea. On one stop in St. Barthélemy, he happened to be lucky enough to show up at a bar called Le Select to watch a small concert by a performer named Jimmy Buffett. Nautical wheels spinning, Tim then sailed to Bermuda and across the Atlantic to Spain, the Mediterranean and Greek islands. After his sailing adventures, Tim hitchhiked through 18 European countries before moving to Sun Valley, Idaho where he logged 111 days perfecting his bump skiing. Tim’s next adventure came as Captain and Navigator of a 62' custom sailing yacht. On this first journey at the helm, Tim surfed and sailed thousands of miles of remote Mexican coastline. Fulfilling
a longstanding promise to his parents that all his globetrotting would
ultimately serve a higher purpose, Tim returned to California State University
to pursue a Business Administration degree with a focus on marketing and
entrepreneurship.
While still in school, Tim co-founded Custom Caribbean Crews, a barefoot-sailing charter company offering one of a kind guided sailing vacations in the British and U.S. Virgin Islands. This allowed him to escape during schoolbreaks and summers, mixing business and pleasure while sharing his sailing and ocean knowledge with others in the Caribbean. Upon graduation from college, Tim's wanderlust took him on a one year sojourn to New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, Thailand, Burma, India, and Nepal. He surfed, studied and explored a deepening interest in travel and photography. The idea of moving to Hawaii came during a two week stopover in Oahu before returning to California and facing the prospect of finding a 'real job'. Tim moved to Maui in early 1993 and applied for his first job as a surf instructor. It soon became apparent that teaching surfing was a healthy and rewarding experience for everyone involved, and Tim fell in love with the work. Goofy Foot Surf School's success is the result of Tim and his crews' enthusiasm for sharing their love and respect for the ocean and surfing.
After founding
Goofy Foot, Tim taught over 15,000 students on his own before deciding
to hire and train any instructors. This volume of experience gave him
the chance to hone his methods for offering world class surfing instruction
with an outstanding safety record. While Tim’s yearning for adventure
and travel have necessarily taken a back seat to building a successful
surf school, he has sneaked in a few noteworthy trips over the last couple
of years. These have included: a transpacific crossing from the Galapagos
Islands to the Marquesas with weeks of surfing in both locales; surfing
trips to Costa Rica, Bali and The Maldives; and participation in a Surfer
Magazine expedition to Jamaican for a first ever feature on the culturally
rich, rarely surfed island. Tim currently serves as a group leader and
surfing guide on Goofy Foot’s annual
trip for 22 surfers to a private surfing island in Fiji. Last year, Tim's life seemed to come full circle as he was tapped by Jimmy Buffett to serve as a personal surfing coach. He has had the opportunity to coach Jimmy in Maui, Oahu, and California and feels extremely fortunate to have the chance to facilitate the learning process for a "pirate" who has had such a positive and profound influence on the path Tim is surfing through his own life.
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