Ocean Healing Group Santa Cruz, California US Vice President
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Otter...home from Costa Rica Relaxing in my own bed for the first time in a month.... Posted at 1:42 AM Nov 24 view more
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!!!
Hello Christian , what's up dude ? hope everything's just fine over there ! No teahupoo for you this year ? seems like they're hoping for better waves tho !! Enjoy your week brother Great respect always ... salam
sup and aloha otter, almost finish with school at the university, one more week and then it's hell time. hah!! just wanted to send some aloha from the our islands. be solid and keep in touch. aloha nō, kumu
Hey what's up brother , hope everything is great over there ! Been to any surf or contests trip lately ? hope you enjoy'it wanna see you someday in Morocco man , come on , bring it on :) Hey i was wondering if ya can help to get some board racks for the bicycle , i couldn't find it over here neither in europe ...it will be amazing if you can get me one Hope i dont bother you man cheers
Hey Otter, Coffee is on me, just getting over a cold first. That derby BBQ skate jam last year was good times, lol, Barney jokingly shoke my broken left hand. I hope for all of us that the ocean turns blue again soon. Later Doug
sup otter, kumu here, sending some aloha from the aloha state. howʻs everything? hilo is just all good and everything is all G on this side of the pacific. be solid and god bless. aloha nō, kumu
Yeah man, How's costa? Check out this You Tube video that my friend put together of Santa Cruz over the last few months. It's cool for only 4 sessions huh! Hope all is well! Here's to 2009!
aloha otter, haven't heard from you in ages,..whatʻs up? merry christmas and happy holidays to you and yours. be solid and truthful. take care and god bless you, always. aloha, kumu
This video is sick!!!! Was this the footage from the one weekend that I missed?? Some of those drop-in's were perfect and you had a perfect shoulder. Can't wait to tear it up in Costa Rica.
What up Professor!! Thanks for the pics. Sorry I didn't get the message in time or else I would have been there for Surf Camp. The Gerhardt's are awesome and super cool huh.
It was good catching up with you today and I'll let you know about this weekend.
