Well...My name is Christian "Otter" Bailey, and I grew up between Santa Cruz California and France...Over the course of my life, I was blessed to have spent most of it traveling the world surfing, skating and exploring. I finally ended up returning to Santa Cruz in 2004 and have been perfectly content to live here since. This area has a abundance of natural beauty, that I personally feel you would be pressed to match anywhere else.

My life would end up throwing me a bit of a curve ball in July of 2006, while filming a video at Derby skatepark here in Santa Cruz. I slipped out, stacked hard and fractured my L3&L4 vertebrae. Unfortunately, this left me paralyzed from the waist down...However, i've always been of mindset that life is what you make of it, and is far too short to sit around feeling sorry for yourself. Luckly enough for me, i've been blessed with the best family and friends one could ask for and they have always been there for me!

Nowaday's, I still spend the vast majority of my time traveling on tour, pushing the limits of my surfing as well as performing expressions sessions on various legs of the WQS and WCT. Also, i'm CEO/ Executive Director of the Oceans Healing Group, a non-profit organization that provides Costa Rica based, adaptive sports adventures, to wheelchair bound youngsters and their parents...It's not only great fun, but also really allows us to share our love for the ocean, with those who don't often have the opportunity to enjoy it.

My major goal through these efforts, is to help empower others with disabilities to pursue their dreams, despite the challenges life has thrown their way!...It's important in life not to take anything for granted, because every day we share on this earth is a gift, and you never know when it all might come to a end...The way I see it, the lord throws challenges our way in life, it's how a person chooses to face those challenges that defines them as who they are!!!

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Anyone with passion for life, perseverance of spirit and kindness of heart!

If you want to keep track of me and what i'm up too, feel free to visit me on Twitter.