In my lifetime I’ve lived through the invention of modern surfing and the birth of skateboarding. Skateboarding began as freestyle, then slalom, then bank riding, then riding vertical walls in pools, then vertical walls on wooden ramps, then street skating was birthed and the sport continues to evolve today into other various forms. Surfing began by riding straight on long wooden boards then in ‘67 the short board revolution blew that apart and suddenly riding all over and even inside waves exploded; then windsurfing, kite surfing, SUP surfing and then foil surfing and all of its subdivisions; prone foiling, wing foiling, kite foiling and even E-Foiling which I’m doing here in week three of learning to ride this amazing invention. Riding it is one of the most elegant experiences I’ve had on any board, it feels like turning through space. And I haven’t even mentioned the snow or two wheeled sports. A few hundred years from now historians may look back on this magical era as Action Sports version of the Age of Enlightenment because over the past 50 years we’ve witnessed one of the most incredible evolutionary journeys with the invention of all of these solo sports coming one right after the other in such a small window of time and each sharing the common ground of fluid motion and movement and of gliding across water and waves, across wood and concrete and across dirt, snow and air. What a great time in history to be gliding through.